Recent friends Lightning Dust and Fiddlesticks spend a summer night trying to understand each other.

For the First Annual Fiddledust Festival

Sex tag is for discussions of one night stands / "sleeping around" - nothing explict!

Walking home through an empty, early-morning town is the perfect time to tell someone close how much they mean to you. Lightning Dust desperately wishes that she could, but no matter how hard she tries, she can't figure out how to tell Fiddlesticks that she loves her.

Written for The Red Parade

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Fiddlesticks is in love with Lightning Dust, and she knows that Lightning will love her back. Fate wills it.

An entry into the FiddleDust contest.

Lightning never thought she knew what beauty was. Until she met Fiddlesticks.

Hey, you. I'm running a FiddleDust contest. Check it out. :)

Octavia might know that she's dreaming, but that doesn't make dealing with this any easier. (CW: references to suicide attempts and minor blood.)

Originally a Sofas and Quills Speedwriting entry that underwent substantial expansions and revisions. Read during the contest by Vis-a-Viscera , Nailah , HapHazred and Koren.

Second version proof-read with additional feedback from Vis-a-Viscera , wishcometrue, Silent Whisper, LegendaryBillCipher, and Seer. Thanks y'all!

Cover art by rice!

Fiddlesticks's life had been dull for years, and she always knew what to expect. Then she met Lightning Dust.

Third Place in the FiddleDust Contest.

Thanks to mushroompone, Seer, and Undome Tinwe for editing.

Equestria has a lot of trains and a lot of stops, but sometimes ponies still have to wait a little while. Lightning Dust, while waiting out the time between one train and the next, gets to know one of the locals.

Content warning for: Egregious flirting, teasing, wing biting, smoking and mentions of drinking. Sex tag is for implied, cut to black moments.

A fluffy piece written on commission for The Red Parade. If you are intetested in getting a writing commission from me, please see this post.

Original cover art by Eva Elijas, found on Pexels

Lightning Dust is perfectly happy being on her own. She can figure this out.

And she doesn’t need this other mare with a constant supply of bad music jokes, at all.

Written for the FiddleDust contest.

Needing a vacation, Fiddlesticks and Lightning Dust stop by the only place they know to escape to; Dodge Junction.

Unfortunately, the place carries a hard truth for Fiddlesticks to face.

This story was written as a commission.

Rival camp counselors get each others' goats, but they've goat a bigger problem to address at summer camp.

- Chapter 1 is stand-alone if you want to avoid 'content warning' tags.
- Chapter 5 touches on some dark issues. To avoid, read that chapter's first segment, then skip to its final two.

Content Note: (throughout) massive jerkery, insults against earth ponies, pegasi and donkeys, mild 'naughty words' [not enough for the tag], bullying, southern-ish accent, (ch. 2) reference to past domestic violence, background & historical intercourse, (ch. 3-5) Narcotics involved although not glorified, (ch. 5) past assault discussed; "tawdry" museum mentioned; (throughout) new yawk-adjacent accent (using 'youse' for plural AND singular ).

Era: The year before the Summer Sun Celebration that brought us Nightmare Moon in Episode 1, Season 1.

An entry in the Fiddledust competition, themed "Kids of Summer"... which obviously was referring to goats. (Results). Excerpts from the Judge's Review:

"...Goats of Summer delivered one of the most creative takes on the prompt in the entire contest. ... an intriguing, brilliant world ... watching them (try to) interact with one another was exceptionally hilarious. The story was full of special and unique plot points that flowed so well into each other, with an ending that capitalized on the buildup and story threads that have been woven together over the course of the entire story. It was absolutely memorable and a great read!"

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