Raindude Dasher can break a heart HOW fast?

A dare to enter Bike's 2022 M x M contest in less than an hour.

Twilight tries to invent birth control for parasprites.

Prereaders: Raugos.
(The prereading queue got unusually confused for this one, so if I'm leaving someone out, please just drop me a note with information that lets me find your preread feedback, thanks.)

Image credit: I cropped a portion of https://derpibooru.org/images/1874063, which is itself a crop of a screencap.

Find out why "Human in Equestria," "Sci-Fi," and all G4 characters are banned from Omegathyst's "Hot Pony Summer" contest.

Stories about those things can COST PONY LIVES.

There are hundreds of kinds of fictional content which can cause gen5 ponies to suffer unnecessarily (as opposed to appropriately), and Omegathyst has helpfully listed and banned all of them in the rules for O's latest contest.

Also, to the best of my knowledge Omegathyst has a sense of humor. Let's find out exactly how true that really is!

Every teenager has to discover for themselves who they really are.

Everyone has to make the journey in their own way.

I'd like to thank a lot of people for being who you are, as imperfect as we all are. I know we couldn't do what we do AND be perfect.

Quite aside from any talk about imperfections, Chatoyance and (someone who would perhaps rather not be named) are two of the people I'd like to thank.

Anon vanishes from his bed, replaced by an enormous ladybug.

Rarity and Spike investigate!

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This story might or might not be an entry in RB_'s "Whodunnit? Youdunnit!" Contest.

Secret spoilered search keywords: Shadow Spade, Sherlock Pones, Detective Rarity, Rarity Investigates, Trixie Lulamoon, Lyra Heartstrings, Bonnie / Bon-Bon / Bon Bon / Special Agent Sweetie Drops, Starlight Glimmer, Madamoiselle Plumeau Précipité, night train, overnight train, sleeper car, Trottawa, Grand Vienneighse Hotel, Haybec, Haypril, anti-teleportation runes, giant cockroach, David Wyllie, Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis", foot pics, hoof pics, feet pics, Trixie is bad at magic, please ignore the teacups.

Someone is sending Sunset's friends secret facts about each other. The secrets aren't so much embarrassing, as ANNOYING.

But is the biggest secret of all...TRUE LOVE?

Content Warning: TRUE LOVE

Prereader Credits: TheSmokingGuy, Shirlendra.

_{Cover Art: Part of an MLP comic book panel, edited for space and content.}

When Sunset steals alien Princess Twilight's new nanotechnology invention, some of the consequences surprise everyone.

A lonely girl might even find true love (or maybe not.)

(Also, we learn why Twilight Sparkle was so terrified of having to go back to Magic Kindergarten.)

Mood: science fiction AU with comedy and shipping elements.

Prereaders: LysanderasD, Logarithmicon, Carlos S., Shirlendra. (The prereaders are not responsible for my own mistakes and shortcomings, though.)

This story might or might not be an entry in Science Fiction Contest II (link), at least under the current rules that accept a wide range of AUs with science fictiony stuff.