A pony approaches with an unusual request.

Written for the Dialogue Only contest. I’m taking the “no narration” challenge to heart and want the dialogue to do the scene-setting. For those of you who’d like slightly more info to go on:

Princess Twilight Sparkle, Equestria’s sole lawmaker, is holding court. Lyra Heartstrings approaches to ask her to change a very specific edict.

After finding Rarity distressed and crying, Rainbow takes action to restore Rarity's beauty to what she knows is true. And only nuzzles her a few times along the way.

Cover and chapter art done by IrradiatedPirateBooty.

Thanks to PseudoBob Delightus for proofreading.

Discord can have good behavior, even when nursing a broken heart over his best friend. It's when her heart is broken that he can't do it anymore.

It's a good thing he has a friend to help him give her space.

At least ten years of unrequited fluttercord included. This is my submission for the dialogue only contest.

"The first time I came back, I thought it was a miracle. By the fifth or sixth time, I knew it was a curse."

Death is a reasonable fear, but it is also a constant reassurance. A promise that no matter how bad things get, they will one day end.

That promise was broken, leaving Rainbow Dash to pay the cost.

A very last minute entry for the 2024 SciFi Contest III.

Special thanks to ScreamQueen and Rb for prereading and valuable feedback.

General content warning: Some depictions of blood, death, and debilitating injuries, but no graphic descriptions. Some existential horror.

(This Fanfiction takes place a few years after “The Ending of the End”) With Equestria in a new age of peace, longer than it’s ever seen, many ponies have settled down into permanent lives and relationships. The Apple Family in particular is settling into a new normal. News of a new member joining their family stirs the Apples into reminiscing on the past, and planning for the future.

Silver Belle's always felt off, but he's never known why. Until he realizes that he's a She.
(Includes Poly CMC, Omniship, FlurryPound, PumpkinBran (Pumpkin Cake x a Next Gen OC), and more!)
Trigger Warnings: gender dysphoria, self-harm in later chapters (maybe), and trans ponies. If you're a transphobe or just don't like stories about trans ponies, don't read this.

Trixie is Starlight Glimmer's wife, and Maud is one of Starlight's closest friends. Whenever Trixie is around Maud, she acts very nervous and refers to herself in the third pony, almost as though she's performing on stage.

Starlight wants to know why. Could it have something to do with Trixie and Maud both being transgender?

This story is part of the Pride and Positivity event, which encourages readers to donate to any of the following charities:

• Transgender Law Center
• Palestine Children's Relief Fund
• Sewa International (Indian charity collecting funds for COVID relief)

Due to growing up under Chrysalis' rule, Thorax has never experienced the pony celebrations. After deciding to go to Canterlot to pick up some books on celebrations, he runs into Moon Dancer. The unicorn helping him pick some books out to read. Later, during the Summer Sun Celebration, the two run into each other again.

(Cover may be changed in the future)

After all of this tiem, Twilight has ascended to the throne. Alas, an Alicorn may or may not live forever, but other subspecies of Ponies have a much shorter lifespan.

Without her best friends, Twilight has a hard time moving forward, sadness and frustration beginning to affect her day to day life. But her eldest fellow princess has an idea; a shrine is built to commemorate their friendship.

Twilight reminisces, remembering those that she'd loved and lost.

Based on Remembrance, by Argodaemon.

The Great War that ravaged the countryside between Equestria and the Changeling Hegemony resulted in the fall of ponykind. The changeling banner now flies over all of Equus, and its pony population have become second class citizens in their own land while the changelings harvest them for love. The evil Queen Chrysalis rules over the newly proclaimed Greater Changelingia with an iron hoof, declaring an age of Pax Chrysalia. To the ponies of Equestria, hope for freedom seems like a distant dream. But even in these dire circumstances, Harmony endures.

This is the story of Nyceris, a changeling garrison officer stationed in Manehatten, and Orchid, an earthpony barista who is just trying to survive in the new order, as they struggle to mend the barrier between pony and changeling in a world becoming increasingly divided.

This fic is set in the world of Equestria at War, a mod for the game Hearts of Iron IV.