Life is lonely on Equestria's most remote border. For fourteen years Marilla has raised her daughter Chrysalis in her little house in the middle of nowhere. But their simple existence is more complicated than either of them could have dreamed.

Now with a review by NorrisThePony: https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/538794/queen-mother-story-review-

After a disastrous tax cut puts a dent in the royal coffers, Celestia and Luna are stuck cleaning their own libraries. Boredom quickly sets in, and soon the princesses are searching for amusement in a room full of ancient and powerful knowledge.

On a different note, have you ever wondered how the first pony was made?

Written for Equestria Daily's Writer's Training Grounds.

There are no nights now that Twilight does not wake in the darkness to find she's been weeping.

(R63)

Dusk is all set to enjoy a good book and some tea on a stormy day when a visitor knocks on his door and turns an otherwise peaceful day into a mystery.

(A belated gift/request that I finally finished. Sorry about the wait. Hope you like it, man.)

Every night, it came to try and claim the young princess, and every night it ultimately failed. Yet, it is eternal, unknowable, unfathomable. It will never tire, and never stop.

All that changes tonight.

One final stand against it, the fate of every sentient being at stake. One guardian against incomprehensible evil. If she’s unsuccessful… no one will have a future.

Written rather quickly for my current worshop. I decided to clean it up and expand on it. It's something I had to put out before my greed got it it and it expanded beyond my grasp.

Hope you enjoy it! Like, comment, and follow.

Or don't. Up to you.

In a sudden, vicious fit of motivation and positivity, Cherax challenges herself to write a one-shot every week for the month of September. This is that.

1: Dreams of a Life of Petty Crime - Rarity and Soul Searcher accidentally dine-and-dash.
2: The Good Kind of Crazy - Coco Pommel solves a mystery at the theatre, with relative ease.
3: No Reprise - Why invest in love when love can't even go as planned?
4: In the Space Between Somethings - Twilight sits, and waits, and worries.
5: Summer Silence - A short poem on Equestrian summer.

Twilight and Rainbow Dash dip into a local bar for a drink after a harrowing flight lesson.

How much can change in a hundred years? How much can change in a thousand? The day of the Nightmare’s defeat Princess Luna finds herself adrift, a thousand years away from the world she knew. With her home in ruins and Equestria changed beyond all recognition, is there anything left for her when even apples are strange?

Winner of August's Write-off! - Distant Shores

With thanks to JCatt and Lord of Dorkness for their help pre-reading.

The war between Nightmare Moon and Princess Celestia has destroyed Equestria, leaving the few survivors to struggle to survive in a dying world of eternal twilight. Fluttershy, twisted by the war, now ekes out an existence in Everfree forest, but even that life is under threat. Twilight Sparkle is coming, leading the last army of Dawn, and she will let nothing stop her from retrieving the Elements of Harmony and saving the world; not even old friends.

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First Place in the Equestria Daily More Most Dangerous Game contest

With thanks to Luna-tic Scientist, Lord Of Dorkness, Nopony_Important and Monanniverse for their help in bringing this story to completion. Cover art is credit to 5kmoe.

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Lickety-Split has sold out Ponyville to an evil frost fiend for the secret of delicious ice-cream and is about to bring about a frosty apocalypse. This can only mean one thing: It's Saturday, and there's only 22 1/2 minutes to save the world!

Only... Lyra's been having a dream. The same dream, again and again all of her life. There's something coming. Something terrible coming from out of the darkness, and it is going to destroy everything. Princess Luna seems very unwilling to do anything about it. Lyra's on her own.

It's Ponyville. Nothing bad ever happens in Ponyville.

But there is an old story. Perhaps the oldest story ever told. Even in Arcadia, there am I.

Entry for the More Most Dangerous Game thing.