Back in Feb. 2020, I wrote a story for one of the "original fiction" Writeoffs that nonetheless had some Pony content. It was a slightly unusual situation all around.

The 176th Writeoff contest was for poetry and had as its prompt "Can It Be Salvaged?"

I participated in every weekly contest at Poetry Nook. Of the 52 poems I entered during that time, I won the contest once and got four "honorable mentions." One of those was for the following, the poem I entered Christmas week of 2016.

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The actual story instead of all my falderol about the story, clicking on the title "The Sleep of Reason" will transport you scientifically to the Zooscape website where said story is now displayed. But if you'd like the backstory, too...

Was called Hiding in Plain Sight, and I won 1st place there with a big, long poem about Medusa in the modern world called "Ode to the Artistic Temperament."

Was entitled "Glass Masquerade," and uncoincidentally, that was also the prompt for the stories folks had to write.

Eleven months ago, but with the time change in the U.S. coming up this weekend, I'll post a link to "Fall Back," a tale of how Daylight Saving Time goes in Equestria.

For the last original minific Writeoff called "The More Things Change." It's only 716 words if anyone wants to click over there and read it.

Just before one of the minific contest on the Writeoff site, I decided I wanted to write some poetry.