Rainbow Dash just wants somepony to read her manuscript now, not 'later'. (Which we all know means never.)

A rare colour combination of the mane and tale, or an extensive and secret dye job? Neither. Rainbow Dash’s mane is not fake, nor is it the one she was born with.
Around the camp fire —and between ghost stories— Rainbow recounts the tale of how she gained her polychromatic mane.

It is the duty of every sheriff, deputy, and officer of the Equestrian Police Force to succinctly and accurately log every incident and case that crosses their desk.

Sometimes these logs tell a story that only becomes apparent when viewed as a whole.

An entry for the A Thousand Words IV contest, in the Experimental category.

Special thanks to Pleasant Aura for prereading, feedback, and really helping polish this story up!

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When I'm writing, I often get ideas. Many of these ideas are bad, or won't fit with the stories I'm writing. Some of them are sticky though. They won't go away and make room for the new ideas that I need, until I write them down as fast as I can.

From now on I keep them here, a tiny little window into the strange, strange place that is my mind. Updated when it has to be.

Rainbow "Danger Professionalism Crash" Dash is starting to get used to her new life in the Wonderbolts; embarrassing callsign and all. But as the days go by, one thing seems to bother her. And that thing is one of her new teammates, Surprise. Or as the team sometimes likes to call her, Slowpoke.

But you wouldn't know that just be looking at her. In her time cleaning the barracks, Rainbow Dash would never think of Surprise as a slowpoke. If anything, she's insane, quirky, and actually a more subdued version of a certain pink pony from back home. So what gives? Why is Surprise called Slowpoke? For Rainbow Dash, the truth is certainly going to be, surprising.

...

Okay, I'll hit myself for that one. *smeck*

My mini-epilogue to the episode Newbie Dash.

History records that Nightmare Moon was sealed away inside the moon, but there are some who tell the story differently. They claim that she was banished not into it, but onto its surface.

If that's the case, what did she do on the moon? How did she keep herself entertained? How did the stars aid in her escape? And when the answers to those questions are revealed, can she ever live them down?

Cover image by KP-ShadowSquirrel.

Twilight Sparkle receives a new book from Discord chock-full of interesting and unknown facts about draconequi. How fascinating!

Nothing sinister about that, right?

A story lovingly ripped off from the Futurama episode of the same name.

Twilight gathers the girls to her basement to reveal her latest invention. Unfortunately, they get distracted by another of her inventions: the 'What If" machine, a device capable of answering any 'what if' question posed to it. Follow along as the mane six discover the improbable scenarios that could have been their lives.

On advice from Luna, Celestia tries to talk to Cleverbot.

This will end well.

Cover art by TristanTreg.

Now with an audio reading by TheLivingLibrary!
Also a TV Tropes page (in progress)!

The apocalypse descends upon Equestria. Princess Celestia finds this bothersome.