The Ponyville school is putting on this year's Hearth Warming play, and Diamond Tiara has given the Cutie Mark Crusaders their roles. Sweetie Belle seems happy enough working backstage, but Scootaloo doesn't like it one bit. She's no turkey! And who's ever heard of a Hearth's Warming turkey, anyway?

But as Pinkie Pie explains, the Hearth's Warming Turkey played a crucial role in the founding of Equestria - and rock farming.

There is now a Spanish translation of this story, courtesy of Spaniard Kiwi

The world is frozen. Clover, Smart Cookie and Private Pansy climb a mountain to try and kill the immortal causing it.

Eighth place finisher in the writeoff 'In Over Your Head.'

The newest chancellor of the Earth ponies assumes her office with a dignified speech.

Or something like that.

A powerful love story from Equestria’s history has been forgotten to time, yet it continues to this day.

Princess Celestia and Smart Cookie have watched Equestria rise. They’ve guarded it, and each other, against the most vile threats and darkest nights. They share a dream that’s entwined their hearts for two thousand years, and a love that’s given them the strength to see it realized.

Now they face the ultimate test of that love; one that comes not from monsters or armies, but from the opposed wills of two ponies who want only what’s best for one another, their friends, and Equestria, and who can’t back down when any of those things are at stake.

(Canon taken into account through season 6... this took me a long time to finish.)

This story is a sequel to Quizzical

During a very bad week Quizzical Greystone comes to believe her whole life has been a failure. Three strange mares travel a long way, just to show her that she's wrong. A Hearth's Warming story.

A father reads his daughter a bedtime story pulled from history:

When a horrible monster brings its wrath to the griffon lands, a small band of refugees must travel across the sea to find safety. There, one of their members must rely on a stranger to survive the night in a mysterious forest.

Dragons do not share. Dragons do not give. Dragons do not care for ponies, their slayers and adversaries. Why, then, do dragons fly down to take treasure from those who can kill them?

Thanks to Tediz ze Kat for the cover art. My entry for the Equestria Daily Outside Insight Contest.

The Hearth's Warming story is timeless in Equestria. Every year, the traditions are done and reminders of what hate brings are given and taken. While the story of the first Hearth's Warming is told to every filly and colt in the bright and colorful manner of a stage-play, there is a lot more that isn't said. Before Hearth's Warming, the three tribes had hate between them, but also a reluctant tolerance as they relied on each other to survive. Once the blizzard of the Wendigos began, they blamed each other. This lead to a Great War over racist accusations. This is the story of that war, and the story of one pony in particular that tried to fight for the right thing. The story about his struggles to create peace in a desolate, frozen landscape. This is a story about a War Pony.

Brilliantly proofread & edited by: PeerImagination

A flood and a prophecy? Chancellor Puddhinghead knows what to do! Shoo be doo!

I’m not sorry at all.

A man with no memory of his past and who he was wakes up before the events of the first Hearth's Warming Eve. Armed with nothing more but a knife and a gun with very limited ammo, he sets out on a strange adventure trying to find out the mysteries of this strange and magical world while finding out who he was and how he ended up there.

Will he survive to see the next day? Will he learn of his past? And will he be caught up in the three tribes' problems? Only time will tell...

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Note: This story is purely experimental to test my writing abilities and I may or may not continue it once I finish it.