Applejack takes on the task of organizing a Hoovesgiving feast at Sweet Apple Acres after Granny Smith's passing.

Anon and Applejack started dating some time ago. Due to a multitude of reasons, they attempted to keep their new relationship low-key and private. Now, they're ready to start taking it a bit more seriously, and that means revealing their feelings for each other to the rest of the Apple family.

However, Applejack has been reluctant to do so, and it's time Anon found out why. According to Apple family tradition, if Anon is to be accepted by the Apples, he must first pass the Apple Screening.

...Good luck, Anon.

Apple Bloom is a very cheery pony. She spends her days trying to grow up as fast as possible by getting her cutie mark double as fast! One day, she finds herself waking up as Granny Smith! With no way to know how or why, she must do her best to seize the day Cutie Mark Crusader style!

This story is a sequel to Under The Apple Tree

Anon and Applejack's relationship has became the talk of the town. But a bigger a new challenge has arrived for our local human, her family. Anon was already deemed worth by young Apple Bloom, but Big Macintosh and Granny Smith put him on trial to make sure he's the perfect stallion for Applejack.

Will he survive the trial by Apple and prove himself worth or will lose his new found love?

Decided to drop this on my birthday being today August 29th so here's a birthday gift from me to all of you!

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To save her dying sister, Apple Bloom will bargain with a cunning elf. She will yell at talking trees. And, see through transforming eyes a queen of forests named Wendy. All in hopes of having her family whole.

Forever.

It will only take her future.

Her body.

Her magic.

But, perhaps...make her into something more...

Diamond Tiara has changed. After a few years of learning about friendship, she realizes another step in her journey needs to be making amends. Today, she’s making amends to Granny Smith for events that took place in the episode Family Appreciation Day.

Applejack is known by her friends and family to be a stoic mare who cries on the inside, and faces every trouble in life with her chin held high. But what happens when a mare carries a burden on her own for too long? What happens when a lifetime of hardship begins to crack her foundation at it's seams?

WARNING - This story contains references to self harm and suicide. It also contains references to alcohol, and quick, moderate depictions of PTSD-type symptoms. I know that sometimes seeing these things is too much for even myself, so please don't read if those things will trigger and bad feelings.

The Apple family house is empty. Winona sits alone, waiting for the day it'll feel full again.

Featured as of 7/17/23

Applejack experiences one of the most uncomfortable meals of her life. And it's not because Big Mac is putting salt on his pancakes, surprisingly.

This is an entry for the Thousand Words Contest. Stop laughing. This is serious.

Granny Smith has lived a long and storied life, but nopony lives forever.

Before the sun sets on hers, she looks back on old memories, and the family she loves.

This story was written for the 2023 'A Thousand Words' contest in the Slice of Life category, and in tribute to my grandfather who passed some years ago.

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