In the sky, nothing is simpler than falling.

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Essentially a spiritual sequel to 30,000 Feet.

9/22/15: Live reading

Shrieking Arrow climbs to 22 kilometers and willingly plummets from the stratosphere, letting gravity take hold of him. This is a challenge of skill and wits for the daring pegasus. Will he complete his objective? Will he wimp out and break the free-fall? Or will he miscalculate and collide with the earth below?

An alicorn can fly, fly so very high, high above the sky.

Celestia recalls the evolution of her love of flying.
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A twist on the “Celestia’s millennium of lament” story. This one includes hypersonic velocities (although if you read the title, it was probably obvious).

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The third story in the Flight: Altitude series, a series focused on the sensual experience of flying high.
30,000 Feet || Stratosphere

Soarin' wants to beat the flight altitude record. Rainbow Dash thinks she can break that record too. She wants to face him in a race for the record but things get complicated. Who will be the first one to break the record? And, more importantly, how will Rainbow cope with her feelings?

The question of "How big is Equestria" had always been on Sunny's mind since she was little. Now, with Zipp's ability to fly, she flies up to the stratosphere with her favourite pony. Meanwhile, Pipp is still having a mental breakdown from the loss of her Pippsqueaks.

(Assuming Sunny's wings are a one-time thing.)

Spike is celebrating his eighteenth birthday. He received a lot of gifts on this day, but one in particular made him really excited: a full blown (quite literally) bouncy castle. Lots of ponies were attending his party, but one in particular also liked bouncy castles. Put two and two together and it was a magical cocktail waiting for someone to be launched into the stratosphere…

Spike didn’t think it would literally happen.

I don't even know what to say about this one. This just happened thanks to FamousLastWords. Written in two hours.

Red tags are pretty tame just fyi. General shitpost.

A collection of unrelated sad and melancholy vignettes and flash fiction.

Nothing Loves me - Luna feels unappreciated, and she's very saddened by it.

Worthless - Trixie reflects on her past.

Excruciatus - What would have happened if Tank didn't participate.

I, Scootaloo - Scootaloo tries to fly.

Cake Suit - Rarity Enjoys some cake.

Ace of Cakes - Princess Celestia enjoys some cake.

The Cutie Mark Crusaders' Wild Ride - The CMC goes for a ride in the countryside.

Big House - Applebloom sees her parents.

Stratosphere Serenade - Gilda falls out of favor.

Credit to Shivita for the cover image.

A calamity has struck Equestria. The frozen north has expanded at an alarming rate for seemingly no reason. The Canterlot council of science and technology have seen a disruption of the atmospheric layers. Causing the high winds of the stratosphere to ravage the ground. The resulting winter could last millenia. A small group of frightened but determined creatures have stretched north to one of the generators created during a last ditch effort to save the races of the world from freezing to death, or dying in the chaos in the temperate equatorial regions. The alicorn scientist known as professor Sky Q. Strike or Sky for short leads these survivors to a coal powered generator. Will they be able to stave off the winter?

The weather's grown cold, and the leaves are starting to fall. But this change in temperature's never quite so bad as long as you have somecreature with you, and at least for now Applejack and Ember have each other.

But all things change. The seasons, most of all. And as the seasons change, all things under the stratosphere must change with them, for better or for worse.

Maybe—just maybe—A weekend in a cabin in the middle of the woods might be enough to change all that. Especially a weekend with a special somecreature. Maybe it could even be enough to bring about a satisfying ending.

There's only one way to find out.

This isn't, literally speaking, my 50th story; it's a couple stories too late for that. But in terms of wanting a story to celebrate a big, round number, well—here it is. This is something I've wanted to write for a while, but struggling with writing in general's gotten in the way; were it not for EFNW being the shot-in-the-arm that it was for getting me excited about writing again, I may never have finished this at all.

But it's something. And, hopefully regardless of how much everyone else likes it, it's something I can feel glad about for having written. Here's to hoping it won't be the last time I can find satisfaction in a story.

All of my thanks to Flashgen and Wanderer D for helping me out with this; It needed quite a lot of help in the end. Thanks to Cyonix for drawing the cover art of this (I know, actually commissioning art, right? I think that might be a first for me.) Thanks to a musician that I've already thanked before, who I'll be annoyingly cryptic about.

And thanks to the many, many other people responsible for making MLP:FiM exist.