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The simulation ends.

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thank you to The Sleepless Beholder and EileenSaysHi for prereading.

an entry for the Imposing Sovereigns IV contest under Midnight Sparkle/Unorthodoxy

Wallflower dreads having to let Sunset go.

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for the Sunset’s Sci-fi Shipping x Villain Contest

This story is a sequel to Trepidation

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Trixie's trip through the portal results in what she feared.

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happy literal last minutes of Pride Month!

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Chiffon Swirl is confused. Pear Butter was just here.

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happy literal last minutes of Pride Month!

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Rarity confronts Blueblood about him being seen at a restaurant with a mare that looks just like her

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happy literal last minutes of Pride Month!

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Wallflower and Maud talk to each other on a class hike, and are not very good at it.

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happy literal last minutes of Pride Month!

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In the blighted world of the Flim Flam timeline, Big Mac and Zephyr Breeze hold on to the remains of what they've lost.

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written in one day for the May Pairings Contest 2023 and the 2023 Cyberpunk Equestria Story Contest.

this ended up being a lot of weird ideas about the Flim Flam timeline inspired by Paolo Bacigalupi's "The Calorie Man". the noun "calorie-mare" in this story is, of course, very directly inspired.

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As the years passed in Juniper Montage's mirror, Starlight found a way to give its inhabitants an escape. One she could never have for herself.

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Starlight Glimmer failed to wrest the Magic Mirror from Juniper's grasp. She failed to convince her of the error of her ways. Instead, Juniper Montage sucked her into the Void just like Sunset and her friends. There was nothing to stop her after that.

As the Void filled up with more and more people facing the fate of a featureless eternity, Starlight discovered a method of escape, of sorts. Juniper banishing the other magical artifact users meant they had access to the Memory Stone, which Starlight could use to craft an interior world of a shared dream among the Void's inhabitants. A temporary solution, to pass the time until the day they could all escape the Void altogether.

But what if that day never comes?

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an entry to The Spring Fling Contest.

thank you to Krack-Fic Kai and Moproblems Moharmoney for prereading, and Rego for shortdesc advice.

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Wallflower is not a florie; she just REALLY likes plants

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an entry to the Arboreal Yearnings I Contest

an entry to The Spring Fling Contest

i originally intended to write a longer story more fully and viscerally exploring Wallflower's relationship with plants, but that ended up too ambitious for the timeframe i had. this story is a standalone sequel to my original idea, as it takes place after the WallShy ship is well-established

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Disturbed by an encounter with a strange tourist, Rarity contemplates the reign of Nightmare Moon.

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thank you to Snow Quill for the in-story art!

written as a gift for Zontan, as part of the anthology Dark Between the Stars. you can read the others here.

thanks to applejackofalltrades and Snow Quill for their feedback.