It's terrifying how the mind can dig up your darkest moments while you sleep defenselessly.

After all, your past is never forgotten. You just think about it less.

Cover art: 'Let There Be Equality' by ruhje@DeviantArt.com

Starlight spends a day in her old town, and her new friends plan a prank to break the ice. What better than something to laugh about to bring everyone closer together! Some pranks are funny, gentle, and become fond memories one day.

This is not one of those pranks.

Zephyr Breeze is a worthless bum — a pony unable to root himself anywhere he drifts to, drowning his sorrows before he crawls back home to his parents once again.

He is nothing more than pony doomed to be torn apart by the winds of destiny dragging him from one city to the next.

Or is he?

Our Town is a settlement where ponies are finally, truly equal through casting aside their destiny and spitting in the face of fate.

In a dim, dingy bar, Double Diamond extends an offer to Zephyr.

Come join Our Town.

Come join our circle of friends, where you can finally be free.

Originally written for the 3nd round of the Quills & Sofas 2024 May Pairings knockout bracket.

Featured 6/4/24

Cover art by the wonderful Shaslan!

Sunnie Bun and Velvet Melody don't fight often. Much at all, really.

Until one day, when the Blue Bee Dessert Diner is tasked with supplying an entire town's worth of milkshakes for a celebration, Velvet makes a purchase without Sunnie's knowledge: a machine that can make gallons upon gallons of milkshakes.

Sunnie, is of course, extremely displeased, and after an argument, Sunnie decides that she should at least taste the machine's shakes, if only to try and see it from Velvet's side.

Question is, can she stop at just a taste?

*contains weight gain to large sizes, stuffing, burps, all the good stuff. Viewer discretion is advised*

Based on a YCH done by the man himself, @GraphenesCloset on twitter. Full image here!

Shortly before extracting the Pillars of Equestria and the Pony of Shadows from Limbo, the Bearers of Harmony faced off against a stallion trying to erase all records of an ancient evil, lest that knowledge fall into the wrong hooves.

Nopony ever considered that the two incidents might have been related. Not until Stygian's first novel hit store shelves.

An entry in the 2024 May Pairings Contest for the Original Pairings group. Last minute best minute.
Rated Teen for implied concepts a bit more grim than what the show could get away with.

Cover from the Friendship is Magic mainline comics, Issue #53

(This story is a semi-sequel to Sun and Flurries, and its related semi-sequels. Familiarity with those works is not required to understand this one. Based on a request from Yaakov Lubin.)

Spike has accepted the request that he become the next dragon lord, even though it means he'll have to leave Twilight and leave behind his position of royal advisor. But Spike has reluctantly decided that it's just what he'll have to do.

As Spike prepares to transition to his new title and his new life, he is surprised to be receive a visit from a princess. Not just any princess, but Princess Flurry Heart, herself a relatively new ruler of the Crystal Empire.

Shocked by the news of Spike's change, Flurry Heart opts to have a conversation with her unofficial "Uncle". In particular, she has her own worries and fears related to her job title that she hopes he'll be able to help her with.

Sequel story to the Tell Your Tale episode “Written In The Starscouts”

Sunny has repressed the memories of what happened to her mother for years. She was too young when it happened, and she never imagined she would ever have to think about it again. But nothing stays lost forever, when the past resurfaces one fateful night, it will take a certain pegasus who empathizes with her to help Sunny process her grief…

A/N: Featured on Fimfiction’s List of Stories On The Homepage: May 27, 2024!

Celestia sits down for morning tea. That much is regular and calming and a good way to greet the day. She looks across at her darker self, Daybreaker. It would perhaps not be as calming as she had hoped.

Every daughter needs a father who supports them 100%

Written for Shining Armor is a Terrible Dad Competition

Fifty-odd years after Twilight Sparkle took the throne, Equestria is in a golden age of technomagical innovation, with concepts from the human world competing with entirely original innovations in an upward spiral of ingenuity that promises to last forever.

… Sorry, make that promised to last forever.

On an entirely unrelated note, two elderly twin unicorns just teleported to an uncharted tropical island.

A double entry in the Dialogue-Only contest and the Tropical Post-Apocalyptic contest. Rated Teen for references to alcohol and almost certain death.