Everything is going great for Sweetie Belle. Well, her job isn't, but she's not too worried. She's got Scootaloo, the best filly-friend in all of Equestria. After work they go out to the local gin joint and dance and drink and blow off stress from the work day

Sweetie Belle, an aspiring jazz musician, takes the stage for some extra bits. Everything is looking good in her life. Until she overhears a conversation that calls everything into question.

Just a quick little slice of life.

Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo are aged up to whatever early 20s is equivalent to in pony years.

Closed Circuit is Ponyville's public radio evening news broadcaster on the show, Welcome to Ponyville.

He reports on the strange events happening around town: bizarre and unexplained lights, unknowable things, the supernatural, the super supernatural, the extra super-duper natural, and the unnatural; all of which, of course, exist. The City Council confirmed it must exist; it's the law!

So beware, ponies, of changeling infiltrators, and worship the sun.

This is kind of based on and written in the style of the Welcome to Night Vale podcast.

When the HMS Equestria sets out on her maiden voyage, they're doing nothing more than charting nebulae is search for different forms of life. Officially, that's all they're doing. But, behind sealed doors in a dark room, select crew members are part of a clandestine investigation of a growing faction within the Federation.

Rainbow Dash is trapped in an alternate dimension.

Proof read by: Manaphy
Originally written for The WriteOff Association's Distant Shores contest.

“I am Autumn the White, Autumn Winds, and sometimes I am Autumn the Mystical. I have ran with criminals, toppled financial empires, and ended the League of Shadows’ reign of terror on the West Side. I saved dozens of foals from terrible fates ponies shudder to think about. I acquired more wealth than Princess Celestia. I have loved and I have lost. But before all of that, I had grown up on the streets of Manehattan where I learned to lie, to steal… where I learned to survive. And when my life was about to take a turn from bad to worse, she fell from the sky.”

Edited by: nowego

Applejack prepares for what she hopes to be the biggest apple sale of the year. And what better place to advertise such an event than the Ponyville Daily?

Except Rainbow Dash's new attention-grabbing antics keep stealing the front page, pushing Applejack's article aside. Frustrated , she confronts Rainbow Dash—only to escalate the situation for the worse in a town of media-crazed sensationalism.

Originally written for The Writeoff Association's Great Expectations contest.

Proofread by: Mayhew Cullen
Artwork by: HugsForPenguin

Silver Spoon wanted nothing more than a summer spent shopping and hanging out with her best friend. Except when she finds out Diamond Tiara went on vacation for the entire summer, and her dad forces her to run his summer lodge by Swan Lake, Silver Spoon knows this will be the worst summer ever. Especially when she finds out who her first customers are.

What's worse is after a canoeing mishap, Silver Spoon finders herself drawn to a certain crusader.

Can she resist Sweetie Belle's charms?

Edited by: Elric of Melnipony
Proofread by: RaylanKrios

For contodaslasganas who was promised a Spoon fic a long time ago.

A simple flight for Scootaloo teaches her an important lesson.

Spike wants nothing more than a perfect Hearth's Warming, but as the only dragon, he can't help but feel somewhat isolated. However, he has a plan to fix that. He buys Twilight the perfect gift, hoping it will help build his courage, so he can ask her an important question. One that will change both of their lives forever. But before he can give it to her, he accidentally ruins it.

Written for Nonpareil Fiction's Hearth's Warming contest.

I knew this routine. Just like last week and several times before. Poor Sweetie Belle was being picked on by her classmates. They tease her for not having a cutie mark; they tease her for... well, being Sweetie Belle. Maybe they don’t like the fact that she’s comfortable being herself? Foals can be so cruel sometimes. Poor dear, can't they just leave her alone? She’s such a sweetheart after all.

proofreading by: Mayhew Cullen
Editing by: Contodaslasganas