You can't buy happiness, but, thankfully, you can buy a wife. Legally, it's an arranged marriage, but everypony knows what's really going on. Unfortunately for Apple Bloom and Diamond Tiara, duty calls them to make the ultimate sacrifice and marry to keep their families out of the gnashing maws of loan sharks and auditors.

It might even work, if either family had two bits to rub together.

This is a story I've had on the back burner for a long time. I started it as a fragment years ago and got around to finishing it now. I must have started around season 4, since Starlight hadn't been introduced yet, so that tells you how long I had it sitting as a fragment on my hard drive!

Anyway, rated T for alcohol use, fade-to-black sex, and gambling.

Thanks to all my readers and supporters. I love you all in a totally platonic way. Does anyone else think Plato would be disappointed his name was synonymous with the friendzone? Anyway, enjoy!

My own personal headcanon for the story behind the death of Applejack's parents.

Applejack has seen a great many things in her life. Some good, some not so good. Fortunately she has her faithful group of friends to help her out when things get rough. But things weren't always that way. There is a day in her past that continually haunts her, and back then, she didn't yet have the magic of friendship to get her through it.

This one shot details that one night, the night that changed everything.

-Taking place after Rainbow Rocks but before the events of Friendship games.-

The fall harvest has always been back breaking work, but Applejack finds it doubled after Big Macintosh sprains his arm in the field. After trying to take on the whole workload herself she is working herself into the ground. Her friends are concerned but take her at her word that she'll be fine. All but Sunset Shimmer who fears her new friend has taken on more then she can chew. Sunset through force of will manages to convince Applejack that she needs help and afterwords Applejack starts to see her once foe in a very different light.

Applejack, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash were hurt by a recent tax hike. Cutie Mark Crusaders have a... questionably legal plan for helping them financially.

A submission for the 2021-05-17 Quills and Sofas Speedwriting contest. Prompts: Death, Taxes, Wanted.

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Reading by Pony&Wolf Productions

(Pinkie Pie & Apple Bloom, Friendship) Pinkie Pie nearly dies in the middle of a return trip through a snowstorm in the aftermath of a bitter family reunion. Apple Bloom is thrown into a depression after a morale-shattering revelation concerning the nature of Cutie Marks. Both of them end up using their respective stories to share a moment between each other while Pinkie Pie is recovering from hypothermia.

Apple Bloom spends her days with the CMC's going to school, playing games, and trying to get her cutie mark.... and snacking on any sweet treat she can find. So of course, when Granny Smith's freshest batch of cookies makes the scene, what's a filly to do with her weekend off other than try and find ways to get the delicious treats all to herself?

Stand-alone sequel can be found: Scootaloo's Day Off

Artwork amazingly done by CaptainPudgeMuffin

Contains spoilers for Inspiration Manifestation!

After Twilight asks about the exact wording of the Inspiration Manifestation spell, Spike is somehow able to use it.

It's not as hectic as you may think.

Written for Equestria Daily's Writer's Training Grounds.

Edited by memphisgurl and RaylanKrios.

Tagged random due to humor, but not enough for the comedy tag.

(Story idea suggested by OmniFox. Proofread by Smity91 on Fanfiction.net.)

The Apple Family gathers together one Autumn evening for a very special family dinner at Sweet Apple Acres, as part of a special family reunion organized by Granny Smith.

What makes it so special, you ask? Well, each Apple gets to bring one guest along to count as honorary family. All that matters is that they have a special connection to the one inviting them.

Granny Smith chooses Grand Pear, her one time business rival now trying to make up for lost time. Big Macintosh brings his mare friend, Sugar Belle, for her first Apple Family get together. Applejack invites Rara to take a break from her music career and rekindle an old friendship. And Apple Bloom (taking the advice of her fellow Crusaders) agrees to let Diamond Tiara come so that the filly can get away from her troubles for a while.

But what will these honorary family members have to say? And what will the Apples chat about around the dinner table?

After an unfortunate magical mishap at the School Of Friendship, Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle are turned into a single entity, a... you know what? No one's exactly sure. But one thing is certain, life for them is about to change drastically...

What's a poor blank-flanked filly to do when she wakes up as an alicorn? That's exactly what Apple Bloom is asking after she somehow grows a pair of wings overnight. Needless to say, hilarity ensues.