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Closer-To-The-Sun


You gotta kick at the darkness until it bleeds daylight.

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"I'm sorry I can't relate,/I refuse to associate,/So don't go blaming me for your bad hair day." -MxPx, 'Bad Hair Day'

The incident happened one day in class and Sandbar had be excused. Next time we all saw him, his mane was a complete disaster. It was absolutely a hilarious sight for the rest of us. Unfortunately, I have a feeling it might be affecting Sandbar and he's going a bit off the deep-end.


Pre-read and edited by Striving for Harmony.

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This story is a sequel to Now Or Never Now


"I fell in love,/'Cause no one saw me the way you did,/And no one's seen me that way since,/But for a short time that's how I lived./Can't get happy, can't get sad,/It's hard to do,/When I hate everyone but you." -The Front Bottoms, 'Everyone But You'

Prequel 1: "Constant Headache"
Prequel 2: "Now Or Never Now"

Gallus goes to visit Smolder in the hospital after an accident during cheerleading practice. While she is recovering well, the scare does cause Smolder and Gallus to talk about their relationship. However, even as she is recuperating, the two can't help but exchange insults and taunts to one another.


Cover art commissioned from CaptShowtime.
Pre-read and edited by Striving for Harmony.

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“Like the sun coming out,/Ooh, I just know that something good is gonna happen,/I don't know when,/But just saying it could even make it happen.” -Kate Bush, ‘Cloudbusting’

Sequel: “A Wave Across A Bay

After looking for Sandbar just about everywhere, Silverstream finds her earth pony friend on the roof, watching the clouds. While watching the skies together, the two friends begin to share a little about their youth.

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This story is a sequel to Life In Quarantine


“Ain't got a thing to do,/I'm all alone and I just hit up all my friends.” -Chapel, ‘Friends’

With the lockdown in place, a group of friends are getting used to a lot of things during the quarantine: learning from home, passing the time, and keeping in touch. Thankfully, they each have their cell phones.

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This story is a sequel to Constant Headache


“Because the last time I let myself feel this way,/It was a long, long time ago./And now we get so scared, and we get so scared,/To be nowhere left alone.” -Metric, ‘Now Or Never Now’

Prequel: "Constant Headache"
Sequel: "Everyone But You"

With all of their seemingly endless back-and-forth, Smolder and Gallus are both convinced by their friends to write letters to the other. Of course, both the dragon and the griffon struggle to find the right words to write.

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“Your friends, they are jewels,/Twice as beautiful and few.” -Iron & Wine, ‘Friends They Are Jewels’

After being enrolled at the School of Friendship, Ocellus took it upon herself to record her numerous findings about friendship and other aspects of life at the school.

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“But I'm a constant headache, a tooth out of line,/They try to make you regret it, you tell them, no not this time,/It's just a constant headache, a dead pet device,/You hang me up, unfinished, with the better part of me no longer mine.” -Joyce Manor, ‘Constant Headache’

Sequel 1: “Now Or Never Now
Sequel 2: "Everyone But You"

Spring break has started for the School of Friendship, but Gallus and Smolder are still on campus as they wait to be picked up. And what’s a better way for the two of them to past the time than exchange insults to one another?


Cover art commissioned from Amy New.

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“Do you wanna go big or not?,/Give it one more great big shot,/Do you wanna just give in,/Or give it everything we've got?” -The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, ‘Go Big’

Silverstream has just discovered a stair company has stock and she has put all her money into buying shares. And now the hippogriff is trying to convince her friends to also invest in the stock.


Cover image made by Pitangawang

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“Doesn't matter what they say,/In the jealous games people play,/Hey, hey, hey,/Our lips are sealed.” -The Go-Go’s, ‘Our Lips Are Sealed’

Yona and Sandbar have been together for quite a while now. However, their friends have a serious question to ask them: have they....you know, done it?


Cover art commissioned from Amy New.

UPDATE 2/24/2021: Added cover art.

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“If God came down on Christmas Day,/I know exactly what he'd say,/He'd say ‘oi to the punks and oi to the skins,/But oi to the world and everybody wins!’” -The Vandals, ‘Oi To The World’

After staying for extra lessons during the winter break, Gallus along with the rest of his friends head out to a bar in Ponyville to enjoy Hearth’s Warming Eve together. But their celebration is cut short by a scuffle with some visitors.

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