When the Pie family visits Maud for the holidays, their holiday plans are interrupted by a panicking Starlight Glimmer who finds her friends meant to put on the yearly Heart's Carol performance for the School of Friendship.

With only Pinkie spared, Starlight needs five new actors. Pinkie happens to have five family members visiting. It's perfect!...hopefully.

Written for TCC56 for Jinglemas 2021

Guards, Sheriff's deputies, and reporters all swarm around the Pie family's home. One reporter interviews a local, who's more than happy to ramble on about his neighbors and their shocking secret...

Based on the song of the same name by Shel Silverstein.

This is the T rated version of this story. There is also an M-for-gore version if you're into that kind of thing.

A collab with Switch Swap

Our roles in this story were basically split. Switch Swap came up with most of the ideas and I did most of the writing. Story is on this account by Switch's choice.

Ever wondered why Pinkie Pie has all these crazy abilities, like "Pinkie sense", being able to physically break apart and stay alive, and tie her neck into a knot, etc.? And isn't it a bit bothersome that she won't tell you?

Well, truth be told, the reason she won't reveal it is because she herself doesn't know. For real. She's always just brushed it off as "something she has."

But one day, while visiting her family, a fun sister moment turns into possibly the deepest conversation the Pie family has ever had, where the big icebreaker answers the blue-fire-burning question, but also leads to the reveal of a fact that Pinkie and Maud are deeply hit smack-dab in the heart by.

Igneous Rock Pie is a young stallion trying to juggle the responsibility of caring for his sick father and keeping his family farm afloat. Cloudy Quartz is a young mare trying to live out her destiny even if it opposes her parents' expectations. They are two very different ponies living under very different circumstances. But at least they both like rocks.

Submission for FanOfMostEverything's Ancestral Tribute contest

Huzzah, it's Hearthswarming! That means sweets, decorations, and songs abound in the Pie family household. Or it would, if Pinkie wasn't away in Ponyville for a baking internship. So if she's unable to provide such a festive atmosphere, who will preserve the joy of Hearthswarming?

Limestone will.

She probably won't like it.

(Artwork commissioned from the ever-talented Jargon Scott.)

According to legend, there is a rock that is known to grant good luck to those who are in possession of it. The mare of stone will travel to the ends of the Earth just to get it for her daughter, no matter who or what may try to stop her.

But she can't deny that raising such an outcast is hard, and she will have to struggle with her thoughts and her emotions as she wonders if retrieving this rock is really worth it -- if not for her daughter, then for her entire family.

Written for the Ancestral Tribute contest.

The Pie Rock Farm's 2 residents live a mundane life. Igneous Rock Pie tends to and harvests the rocks, and Cloudy Quartz seeds, classifies, and exports them. Their routine had remained unchanged for years, save for the occasional holiday, until one day. Igneous finds a cave. Will the depths of its stony halls prove to be a boon to the Pie family?
Or its doom?

Premise based on the story of Floyd Collins, and, of course, Man in Cave.

A nearly-late entry in the Ancestral Tribute contest!

DISCLAIMER: This story takes place in an alternate reality. Some of the plotlines that are canon in the show, will not be canon here.

The Pie family lived on a small rock farm, until a misfortunate event caused the family to split apart, with the father, Igneous Rock, staying on the rock farm with his two daughters, Maud Pie and Marble Pie. While the mother, Cloudy Quartz, moved to Ponyville with the other two daughters, Limestone Pie and her youngest daughter, Pinkie Pie, who might just be out of her mind.

Pinkameena Diane Pie, Element of Laughter, Party Pony, Bestest Friend Ever, 974 A.B. -- 1 A.R.
"Don't cry for me; laugh instead!"

Entry for the Reunions Role-swap contest.

This story is a sequel to Life after Death

Starlight and Maud get engaged but didn’t visit the choosing stone first. It was against Pie tradition and Ma isn’t going to forget that. The couple has to got to the farm and make amends. Will it lead to a happy married life or the end of their relationship? Maud isn’t sure. It’s a rock based decision.

Thanks to Lysander and Stinuim Ruide for helping to edit this one. It’s taken a long time to release from editing limbo on my part.