In order to obtain the power to control Equestria, Cozy Glow must kill three primordial demons and eat their hearts. It's an unsavory business. Better hope she brings hot sauce.
Miss Harshwhinny is presented with a dilemma from which there appears to be no ethical escape. Starlight Glimmer is very good at stretching the definition of “ethical.”
Unredacted transcription of undercover agent Starlight Glimmer’s mission at the MEGAKILLCON military industrial convention. Unauthorized viewing of this transcript will result in instant and painful death.
In the summer of Equestrian naval piracy, captain Rarity gets a visit from a mare claiming to be from the future. She also claims to be more fashionable than captain Rarity, which [i]obviously [/i]can't be true. Swordfights ensue.
Good relationships are all about compromise. For example: Rarity likes massages, and Spike likes adventuring up giant magical beanstalks to fight giants. This is gonna be one heck of a compromise.
In a past life, Twilight Sparkle and Applejack journey to return a strange artifact to its rightful owner, weaving through an unknown land and a culture coming to grips with a decades-old tragedy.
If Thunder wants his skate park back, he'll need to help a schoolyard bully find balance of her own. Falling off a board hurts, but helping someone you hate hurts even more.
Word of a three-eyed sorcerer wielding a strange new form of magic propels Twilight Sparkle on a journey into the ancient wilderness of the Equestrian north.
Canterlot plays host to a changeling wedding. For the queens being wed, it will be a day of unity between their disparate clans--if they can keep from killing each other first.
After three hundred years in the beautiful simulation of Equestria, architect Teque has finally built his first tesseract house. What he finds inside will change the way he understands his world--but he won’t make it out in one piece.
Spike the dragon is Princess Celestia's personal student. When his unicorn assistant shirks her lab duties for a night of punk rock partying, Spike takes it upon himself to reign her back in.
In the weeks following Luna's return from the moon, she and her sister share their experiences inhabiting its spiritual ether in its nightly journey across the sky. There is only one moon, but it shines vastly different lights.
On the day that Astral Sign got his cutie mark, a meteor fell from space and struck his home. The next day, his parents filed for divorce. The events were not unrelated.
Delta Vee dreads Wednesday. Wednesday is when she has to pick up her daughter, Apogee, for her court-ordered family time. Delta Vee also dreads Friday. Friday is when she has to give Apogee back.
Applejack is running for mayor! Her policy is sound. Her commitment is true. Her ethics are incorruptible. But the incumbent has a trick up her sleeve. Or, rather, a trick in her box.
Celestia has a disturbing revelation about the limits of alicorn mortality. With time suddenly turned against her, she must embark on a journey to find the source of her unrest: an ancient memory drawing her inexorably to a forest that time forgot.
When tragedy strikes the heart of the Ponyville pet scene, a sleep-deprived Stygian is forced to answer a dangerous question: How far would you go to help a friend in need?
Nightingale wasn't sure what to expect when she became Princess Twilight's lover. As she soon finds out, ancient alicorn princesses carry many secrets. Perhaps some are better left unspoken.
To a ground-bound pony, a cloud is a collection of rain that hasn’t fallen yet. To Rainbow Dash, it's so much more. It's a place to nap, a launchpad into her mind, and depending on the company, a point of grievous contention.
Fluttershy’s parents are concerned. Her brother is hysterical. Her neighbors are confused. But Fluttershy is insistent. She needs to find her own way into the air. The wings on her back aren't enough to make her fly. She needs something more.
On clear evenings, when the trees enveloping her home cast long shadows through the windowpanes, Fluttershy waits for the arrival of a bird that doesn't sing.
When the Elements of Harmony are unavailable to fight off the monsters threatening Equestria, it falls to the long arm of the Royal Guard to protect the land. But the prospect of fighting a dragon becomes much less romantic when you fight it alone.
As a princess, Twilight Sparkle is only allowed one weekend off per year. All she wants to do is enjoy her free time without being interrupted. Sadly for her, the forces of evil--and the bureaucracy tasked with stopping them--have other ideas.
Trouble looms in post-war paradise. When Rarity reveals an extraordinary debt to the Equestrian bank, Twilight Sparkle decides to help her friend the only way she can: by robbing banks.
Vinyl Scratch sits in a coffee shop, staring out the window at the bus stop down the street. Today she must choose between an old life of habits and a new one full of uncertainty. Too look forward--or to fall back.
Octavia walks away from a fancy house on the north side of Canterlot. She doesn't know where she's going. The stars glow like open windows of apartment buildings high above her. All she can feel is small. Seeking someplace smaller, she walks.
The old mare comes in every night to eat and stare out the window. She doesn't say much. Probably because she's deaf. The nights are long, but her silence is longer. So is the patience of the two ponies who serve her. Inspired by Hemingway.
They kept up their facade. They bore that burden by choice, and they were none the less for it. And when they had a second to step back, to stare into the eyes of the world, they took solace in each other; for it was all they had that was real.
Twilight, reduced to bashing her head against a table to ease the feeling of literary inadequacy over an unwritable essay, turns to Spike for some more practical advice on finishing her essay--and why she should write it in the first place.