A simple challenge for the sake of a contest: a prize to be claim if possible; a crossover experiment in media res so to speak. Failing that, a short story with low expectations and higher inquiries based on its contents in question nevertheless...
Twist and Truffle Shuffle head to the national dessert competition and have a grand, fantastic-food-filled time together. Also, there's some attempted murder going on.
Everypony thinks they know the real reason why Twist is named Twist. Turns out, hidden inside her personal notebook is a long list of twists. Like how she finally got a Father to call all her own.
All Diamond Tiara wanted for her 21st birthday was sex and fun and sex and friends and sex and rock and roll and sex. Bad thing is: she actually got it.
Caught in a rainstorm again, Derpy trudges off toward home. But along the way, she finds somepony down on her luck as well, somepony who very much reminds Derpy of her own childhood. It was a good day.
Twist has her eye on a certain colt, and for once, books aren't telling her everything she wants to know. It's time for her to ask what it's really like to have a special somepony.