In the year 2015, humans vanished off the face of the earth and those that remained were transformed into ponies, griffins, and other creatures. The others were thrown into the timestream to return as one of these creatures at a later time. Fast forward three millennia and a new society rose from the ashes, built by the returning humans and their children. The refugees of this era may not have it as bad as those in the past, but integrating into this new society still poses a great challenge.
This is a collection of stories taking place in the 'Ponies After People' universe created by Starscribe.
A special thank you to all the great people that have helped and encouraged me to follow through with this project! Y'all know who you are.
Chapters (3)
Very nice Mix. Looking forward to reading more of it.
There is no new normal
nice start, you get a tracking for thanksgiving
She didn't say they would be hoboing it, but she did say it was a cargo train.
In 3000 years, rivers change paths. Not usually to the point of no longer being recognisable on a map, but certainly to the point where bends in the river can't be relied upon.
(Also, OP mother, but I'll give you a pass on that because it gives the story more feeling and isn't outside the realm of possibility for PaP stories.)
Oh, and you should probably set this as a sequel to Sin Never Dies. The link to the setting for it should be somewhere on the page for you, although I don't recall where.
I wonder if starting your anthology with a collaboration was a good idea. Like with any story, the first chapter kinda sets the tone, and I'm not really sure what that tone would be given this chapter.
In any work of fiction, it's always appropriate to sit back and ask: What is the conflict? What do the characters hope to win? What are the stakes if they lose? After the first chapter I do not know any of the answers to these questions. It started strong, with a scorned rival perhaps, but very quickly the tension with the singer was dismissed any never returned.
Conflict, turmoil, and distress are the soul of good fiction. The longer you keep your characters uncomfortable, unhappy, and unfulfilled, the better your writing will be.
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However, she might be referring to a mixed train, with both passenger and freight cars linked in the same train.
Mixed train
A railroad combine car is one car that has space both passengers and freight.
Combine car
Yeah, this chapter was much stronger than the first one.
Many thanks for being the first Ponies After People author to remember that ponies and other species have access to Hammerspace. According to Wikipedia® “Hammerspace (also known as malletspace) is a fan-envisioned extradimensional, instantly accessible storage area in fiction, which is used to explain how animated, comic, and game characters can produce objects out of thin air.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammerspace
There are many kinds of objects that can be placed in Hammerspace such as Rarity’s fainting couch, seen in many episodes and Spike's umbrella seen in the episode Equestria Games. I hope that other authors include Hammerspace in their ongoing and future stories.
Still good to read after all this time. One of my favorite 'go back and read again' tales.
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reminds me of the "MLP time loops" collab, where "loopers" had a "sub-space pocket" they could store things in.
Loopers who had been "awake" for a LONG time could store entire spaceships in their "pockets"!
Scootaloo once tried to put the Millenium Falcon in her pocket, i'm not sure if she succeeded.