The Cutie Mark Crusaders get an important talk from princess Celestia after the Gabby Gums incident. Unfortunately, this means that they have to stay after school when all their peers have left. Nothing whatsoever goes wrong in the process and zero extra-credit assignments are given.

Preread by Gay for Gadot and NorrisThePony. A previous version of this originally appeared in 'Missing Pages & Scrawled Footnotes' on March 22nd, 2020 but it has since been removed and published as a stand-alone piece. Contribute to the TVTropes page!

The Mane 6 all have horror stories they want to tell. Join me as they share the stories that have kept them up at night.

One night, Twilight discovers a book. Much later, Equestria is no more. A human explores a desolate land in search of answers.

Sunset Shimmer believes something seriously wrong is happening in Equestria. So she pays them a visit, along with the human Twilight Sparkle. On the other side of the portal, they find a far emptier world. One that holds unexpected danger. And now, what should have been a day-trip is turned into a fight for survival. The girls need to get back home, before the Equestrian threat beats them to it.

Spike turns to writing to avoid lying, but insomnia meshes fiction with reality. A mysterious caller knows of his darkest secret.

Werewolves. Vampires. Earth people, a.k.a. humans. In a world where they've learned to cooperate, it's a bad idea to let your inner wolf off the leash. People tend to look up to you as a role model (when they're not looking at other role models who are way more awesome because they don't even need supernatural stuff).

Sour Sweet doesn't care about that. She just wants to snark at her girlfriend and pet monstrous abominations. But when the balance of power rests inside her own head, it's no longer resting on stable ground...

An entry in Imposing Sovereigns IV, using the prompt "Sour Sweet/Strength".

Far from the public eye, a battle against dark forces has raged for centuries. The time has come for a newly minted hero to do his part in the war. To win, however, he must learn much more than the warriors' craft.

Many thanks to Pre-reader 63.546 for their sagacious editing and proofreading guidance.

Featured on EQD on 27 Feb 2024!

Written as a spin-off of Garden of Roses and set in the Tenderverse, both creations of jmj. Also, dedicated to jmj.

A compilation of my random drivel, these are the stories or chapters or snippets or random drivel that I {or my editor/co-writer} scrapped for one reason or another.

The author's notes will contain information on these individual bits and some pre-requisite reading may be ideal for certain scraps.

Tags are all over the place for obvious reasons, with the exception of horror. The horror tag is because of the scrapped displaced story. These are all mostly unedited and in their most cringe-worthy state. You're welcome.

Bitching and criticism of any kind welcome, though I would ask that you remember these were all written when I was a far worse writer.

When the island first appeared on the radar of Equestria, Princess Celestia forbid travel to the island until she commissioned an expedition team herself. Shining Armor, who only meant to take a faster route home from a diplomatic mission by flying over the island, goes missing. Upon hearing this from Celestia Twilight enlists the help of her many friends to travel to the island to rescue him, along with those who accompanied the prince. Celestia herself gathers a small army as precaution, though her advisors persistently say that the island should be uninhabited.

The hulking figure that greets them when they enter says otherwise.

(Kong: Skull Island crossover)

Twilight Sparkle worries about her friends. Currently her thoughts are preoccupied with the new guest of a certain yellow Pegasus, one with twice as many legs as it should have.

She was right to worry.

An entry for Ocalhoun's Big 250K Contest, and a continuation of their story Arachnophillia.