Fifty-odd years after Twilight Sparkle took the throne, Equestria is in a golden age of technomagical innovation, with concepts from the human world competing with entirely original innovations in an upward spiral of ingenuity that promises to last forever.

… Sorry, make that promised to last forever.

On an entirely unrelated note, two elderly twin unicorns just teleported to an uncharted tropical island.

A double entry in the Dialogue-Only contest and the Tropical Post-Apocalyptic contest. Rated Teen for references to alcohol and almost certain death.

Flim and Flam come prepared to the Ponyville Schoolhouse with what they thought was a foolproof plan to solicit from their easiest victims yet - unknowing foals. But when Cheerilee bars them entry due to their names appearing on a newly-circulated list of ponies of a certain nature, they realize their problems may run deeper than a day of lost profits.

Have you ever been so incredibly insane that you decided to try to write 100 stories for one event? No? Just me?

While I didn't quite make it to 100 before the cut off, I did manage to write 85 short stories for the app and one longer story for the book for a total of 86 stories.

Sit back, and enjoy such ideas as: Derpy goes to stop Nightmare Moon, Fluttershy gets her dream, Holly the Hearthswarmer comes to life, and many, many.....many more.

The Book of All Stories has been opened. Fizzy Glitch, a kirin in crisis, has opened a box that cannot be closed. And all of this has unraveled at the site of Ponyville Ciderfest 2023. You are now part of an effort to find the scattered pages, each containing the power to change the narrative. Will you restore the past, reshape the present, or control the future?

A series of short vignettes—app stories written for Ponyville Ciderfest 2023.

Included are all the endings to each story as well as the code word associated with the story in the app.

The stories were structured to be bite-sized interactions for consumption by attendees. Attendees were then meant to select endings for each scenario, furthering a faction of their choosing.

Many moons ago, the famous Flim Flam Corporation took control of Equestria. The Princesses, the Royal Guard, and the Bearers of the Elements of Harmony all fought valiantly, but were defeated and executed. Many ponies were captured and turned into cyborgs, acting as ruthless enforcers against the small pockets of resistance, as the natural world of Equestria was industrialized to serve Flim and Flam's interests.

But on Nightmare Night, as the lunarizer raises the moon that was once Luna's into the sky, Flim and Flam are met by some unexpected guests. And nothing they can do will save their lives.

My entry in the 2023 Cyberpunk Equestria Nightmare Night Contest

World Comedy Day in Equestria is a time for goofing around like never before. Some prefer the hilarious sights afforded by slapstick, others like to resort to wordplay - but wherever there is civilisation in the kingdom of ponies, there is always somepony willing to have a jolly good laugh on this day. And maybe a few changelings and other creatures as well...

This is my 25th fanfic to be posted here, so to mark that event, I thought I'd do something different and go for a Monty Python-based short story collection. The stories here are almost all amalgams of multiple Python sketches, with three of them featuring what was originally going to be the sole inspiration for the story - not that anyone would necessarily expect it - know what I mean? Know what I mean? Nudge nudge? Wink wink? Say no more? Either way, I hope you enjoy it...

It's Summertime in Ponyville, which means it's the height of Tourist Season! Visitors from all over the globe flock to the once-tiny hamlet to see the Princess Sparkle, take pictures, and get to know the natives!

One particular visitor is a gentle stallion from Hoofgaria, who, armed with a phrasebook he'd purchased from a pair of twin unicorn brothers who had assured him would make his stay in Equestria a pleasant one, decides to go shopping one afternoon soon after his arrival.

He never saw it coming...

Unredacted transcription of undercover agent Starlight Glimmer’s mission at the MEGAKILLCON military industrial convention. Unauthorized viewing of this transcript will result in instant and painful death. 

A love letter to cons, and the people we meet there. Written for the 2023 May pairings contest.

When a mysterious stranger asks Princess Luna for help unraveling a long con being played on innocent ponies, she thinks it's going to be easy.

Bank ledgers, reverse heists, family drama, and Daylight Savings Time, all make it anything but easy.

CW: implied highly inappropriate conduct for a government bureaucrat.

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Originally done for the Quills N' Sofas "Big Heist" speedwriting contest with the added prompt of "Daylight Savings Time". Thanks to Vis-A-Viscera, Publiq, Visharo, and DarkCyan for their comments.

Edited by... well, me. (Know any good editors?) Cover art from the internets.

Story notes in this week's MT File.

Fiddlesticks is looking for her special somepony outside of Appleloosa

Octavia is looking for a pony she can truly connect with

They both find out about the Lovebirds diner ran by the Flim Flam brothers

The two of them meet there

They both find themselves in each other

Literally.

This is not a incest story I swear.

Written as part of Bean's writing group using the prompt "Dancing with herself". Many, many thanks to RDT and Hope for prereading and editing this story that otherwise would have been a lost cause without their help.

**Featured 04/18/2023, thanks everyone!**