The Equestrian Postal Service used to be MUCH more dangerous.

"Now that we've invented paper," Princess Celestia tried to explain to her sister Luna, "we can send a message to another pony without the necessity to write the message on a THIRD pony, let alone ordering that third pony, upon pain of death, to seek out the recipient and display their flank."

_{(cover image source: I cropped and edited part of an official MLP comic to make a better cover image for this story.)}

Which of the main MLP:FiM characters would be most likely to kill somepony?

Spoiler: All of them.

Someone asked this question in "The Writers' Group," and I thought the question deserves a full answer.

Art credit: https://www.deviantart.com/mediumsizetex (cover image, cropped slightly, used with permission)

Cadance wonders what Flurry Heart is the alicorn princess OF.

Twilight Sparkle turns perfectionist (Ha! I'll bet you never saw THAT one coming!) and tries to figure out who's more inadequate, Flurry Heart or her mother?

This is what happens when you leave your "Cadance Is a Terrible Mom" competition folder (EDIT: link to main contest page) open the night after the deadline. People show up and TRY TO PUT THINGS in it.

_{(Story image: I cropped an MLP show screencap.)}

When Twilight was still Ponyville's unicorn librarian, she learned a surprising secret from Rarity.

Twilight surprised Rarity with a secret of her own.

Warning: This story is silly, and contains at least one plot twist (some people don't like those.)

^{(Image Source: I edited a picture by "DimBulb," with DimBulb's kind permission.
The original image is, of course, bigger, better and cuter. )}

Sonata Dusk gets a government job in Equestria.

(Mood: Cheerful fluff)

Loosely inspired by a drawing of Chrysalis waving an EBT "food stamps" card at Cadance, I wrote the first draft of this story last Friday.

This bit of fluff might be an entry in Bicyclette's Polyship Contest, idk? (link)

Cover image: I had a lot of trouble finding art of Sonata dressed as an office worker, so I experimented with purplesmart.ai and edited the results.

Starlight Glimmer wants to rescue Trixie Lulamoon from a world-spanning catastrophe. Trixie wants to see the catastrophe first.

The author's note talks about where one of this story's ideas came from.

Probably not eligible for the current 1000 words contest...for reasons.

_{(#1000words 1000words 1000 words)}

Late one night, Twilight finds out about a secret shipper.

A shipper with a deliciously naughty voice and cute little fangs, who doesn't want to take no for an answer.

...

Author's Note elaborates a bit on how parts of this story aren't really good wooing technique for real life.