Starlight Glimmer has never actually had any fun on Hearth's Warming. Ever. But she gets roped into one of her friends' most favorite Hearth's Warming traditions: building gingerbread houses! What could go wrong?

Turns out, quite a lot. But that's where Pinkie Pie comes in.

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Originally done for the 2022 Quills N' Sofas Holiday Fic Exchange for TheDriderPony, who provided the prompt. Takes place the day after the events of “A Hearth’s Warming Tail,” Season 6, Episode 8.

EDIT: Featured 11/29! Thank you, readers.
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Brief Notes, PVCF travelogue, etc. in the MT File.

It is your daughter's first day of school. And today, you see the past, present, and future passing, all in the blink of an eye.

Originally written for the Quills N' Sofa's "Poetic Prose" speedwrite, with the prompt "autumn," in September 2021. Cover art by MLPLover0711 on Derpibooru.

Story notes in this week's MT file.

EDIT: Featured 8/29/23! Thank you for reading.

Pegasi train for flight, and a select few train to fly high above the clouds. Navigators use the movements of the stars to find their way, for themselves and for their comrades.  But the stars are distant, and for one navigator, one special note will call him to his true home.

A short poem-fic originally written for the Quills N' Sofa's "Palate Cleanser" contest.  Cover art by theuser. Original editing, and substantial help with iambic pentameter ("Read through the line, would it sound like that?"  "OK, OK, fine.") by the poetic and dearly missed LevelDasher (RIP).

I thought about fixing this up for the Thousand Words contest, but missed the deadline. I was nonetheless encouraged to post this by the members of an Open Read & Critique circle at EFNW 2023 - special thanks to Dreadnought, Danatron1, GaryOak, Caligari87, and the indomitable AdmiralBiscuit for their words of encouragement.

Story Notes, Everfree travelogue, etc. in this week's MT File.

EDIT 11/25/2023: Now with an Audio Reading by Midnight of Pony & Wolf Productions! Thank you so much!

When a mysterious stranger asks Princess Luna for help unraveling a long con being played on innocent ponies, she thinks it's going to be easy.

Bank ledgers, reverse heists, family drama, and Daylight Savings Time, all make it anything but easy.

CW: implied highly inappropriate conduct for a government bureaucrat.

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Originally done for the Quills N' Sofas "Big Heist" speedwriting contest with the added prompt of "Daylight Savings Time". Thanks to Vis-A-Viscera, Publiq, Visharo, and DarkCyan for their comments.

Edited by... well, me. (Know any good editors?) Cover art from the internets.

Story notes in this week's MT File.

Out of bitter tragedy, Bright Macintosh vowed to Pear Butter that he would never abandon her. And he did not.

Six years later, a different choice gave him a second chance.

Now he has to learn the hardest lesson of all: how to stop surviving, and how to start living.

An entry in the Ancestral Tribute Contest.

Cover art by Remul-Lemlem.

An inspired linguist. An ancient stone tablet. And the story of how a new species, made in love and forged in fire, came to be.

1st Place in the Everfree Northwest Iron Author Competition 2022. Many thanks to the judges -- Aquaman, Grand Moff Pony, and Xepher -- for their kind comments, and to my fellow winners: FanOfMostEverything, Mica, Scampy, Steady Gaze, and Admiral Biscuit.

Editing by LevelDasher (who is now on a much-deserved editing sabbatical).

Cover Art by CadetRedShirt [DeviantArt] [Twitter]
(I commissioned this one. Give Cadet monies and she will make art and/or sing for you!)

Story notes in this week's MT File.

Featured on EQD, 10/23/22.

Nothing is more of a temptation to Luna than secrets. But one secret Luna uncovers goes back to the earliest days of Equestria, one which Celestia is trying desperately to keep hidden.

Now, Luna must walk into her sister's dreams to understand the past she missed... and save her sister from the the same darkness that once consumed her.

CW: implied thoughts of suicide

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Originally done for a Quills N' Sofa's speedwrite on "Second Chances" in September 2021, where we took a story that we were not happy with and re-wrote it. The original version of this story was done in July 2020. Thanks to Lofty, Vis-a-Viscera,and Draconequus for encouragement and edits.

Cover Art by Yakovlev-Vad.

Notes on the story in this week's MT File.

Shining Armor is summoned to his daughter's school after a major fight there. Flurry Heart started the fight with other students, but as Shining discovers, sometimes there are things worth fighting for.

Done for the Quills N' Sofa's panic speedwrite on the topic of "Princesses." Join us. Do it. You will have fuf fun.

Editing by the amazing LevelDasher. Cover art by windymils.
Good to be back writing, y'all!

Featured 07/26/2020 through 07/29/2020 (my first feature!). Thank you all!

Now with an audio reading by Straight To The Point Studios. Thank you!

Roan Compass is the son of a pegasus and a unicorn, stuck between two worlds. He never felt like he fit in anywhere as a foal. Until his parents managed to remind him one night of just how special and loved he was.

(My EFNW Iron Author 2018 entry, unedited.)