H-hi. My name is... Lily Pad. I've, um... I've read a lot of stories about people who get stuck on desert islands. I really like the one about the pirate girls who make friends with all the animals on the island, and then the animals help them rebuild their boat and escape. I guess I thought, if I were ever stuck on a desert island (o-or, I guess, a deserted island, since ours has a, erm, jungle) it would be something like that. This uh, this really isn't at all like the stories I'm used to.

Sunset Shimmer and me, we... we're not really sailors, and we certainly aren't pirates. We haven't made friends with any of the animals on the island, either. Also, in most stories about islands, the heroes get shipwrecked or stranded, but we have a good boat, and I guess, technically, we could leave whenever we wanted.

It's just that there's nowhere else to go.

Written for the 2024 Tropical Post-Apocalyptic Story Contest in the Island Group. For which, by my estimation, it was submitted about an hour too late. Oh well.

Okay you know how this kind of story starts. A guy bought something at a Convention from a certain Merchant and gets thrown into some version of Equestria. Problem though for our Human here, there is just NOTHING exciting happening. The World seems to be completely at peace. Well Equestria is at least.

Anon finds himself sitting next to a particularly aggressive mare at a coffee shop,

A few rounds of quick-fire interrogation questions and eye-grilling later, you find a more softhearted mare beneath all of that professional bureaucratism.

Could this be the start of something bigger?

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Some love for the Whinnyapolis Delegate because she deserves it.

Contains: Hoof holding, kissing, and various other forms of sappy affection!

Next stop, Bridlewood, as an Erebus stomps his way into Bridlewood. The third part in the war robots anthology in modern day Equestria. Here’s an Erebus: https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwarrobots.com%2Fen%2Frobots%2F77&psig=AOvVaw3v6k9mzSeYbyjDfXzEwb92&ust=1714238995429000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CBAQjRxqFwoTCPjwoIW04IUDFQAAAAAdAAAAABAE

Sunset Shimmer has always been a hot-headed, impetuous girl. She's always been prone to making snap decisions, and later finding herself regretting them. It was exactly this temperament that had brought her to the human world, penniless and alone. When the opportunity to get back on her feet presented itself in the form of a stranger's outstretched hand, she leaped at the chance.

This is the story of a woman who has made many bad choices, and the life those choices have made for her.

Tags, and even rating, may change as the story goes on.

Thanks as usual to Magello for the cover art!

It has been a week since starlight's reformation. Since then, she has been unable to find happiness. But then, on a trip to Canterlot with Twilight, her childhood friend Starburst invites her out to diner. However, with her past and feelings of abandonment come back to haunt her, will she be able to forgive him, and find something more?

pre-reading done by Henkipie
art doen by DM

One day, Firefly will be a stunt flyer of legend, with fans from all across the land coming to her shows, and Wind Whistler will be the greatest scientific mind in all of Dream Valley. But now, many years before the days of Tirek or Grogar, or of Megan and her siblings, a young mother comes home to find her little filly struggling with the greatest question of her life...

Actually a strictly G1 story, not an FIM crossover or anything to do with any series but the original; there just wasn't a tag for the different gens. (I hope it's allowed; nothing in the rules say it's not!) This is a oneshot with Wind Whistler and Firefly as the only characters.

New York City's a good place for a pony to start over. There are plenty of opportunities available, such as pulling a carriage around Central Park. it's not that different from pulling a carriage in Equestria, after all.

Except for the regulations. So many regulations. The law is complicated, and it's not really set up for an Equestrian pony.

Pre-read by AlwaysDressesInStyle

At first glance Swift Feather is just an ordinary earth pony who has just moved Manehatten in hopes of starting a new life for himself. What most people don't realize is that there is a reason he moved. And now he has to deal with his past while also starting a new life for himself.