My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. What a show. And as of writing this, it's on its final episodes. I personally haven't kept up with the show for quite some time, but I owe a great deal to it. I started drawing partially because of it and I started writing mainly because of it. The first stories I wrote as a teenager and young adult were greentexts in 4chan's /mlp/ board written under the tripname Red. Most of the time the stories were short comedic works, but I did have some longer ones, with my magnum opus on the site being Journeys of the "Spider: Sunset's desert path" in the now defunct Spider-shimmer/powerponies threads. The story was a complete mess, hastily written and barely coherent, with a gainax ending because I didn't feel like writing anymore. Still, I consider that story as first step towards becoming a writer, the story being closely followed by to of my first original stores, one of them being "For a wish" which can be read on my sofurry account. I regard "For a wish" to be barely better than "Journeys of the spider" but that's not either here or there.

From time to time, I would go back to the /mlp/ board and search up the thread and update everyone on what I was doing. These were actually my first online friends, so a sense of nostalgia is all to be expected. Recently I also happened upon Dawnsomewhere's old pony videos and it got me reminiscing. I had a lot of stories planed, but wrote none of them. A lot of people managed to get their start through the brony community, so I tend to think if I would have gotten much more further ahead if I had started doing artistic things back when I watched the show for the first time.

In any case, one of my planed stories involved a rag-tag team of horses, who basically did nothing all day. It was a silly thing, really and it didn't go anywhere. But later on I took one of those horses, added a bat pony and wrote in the /bat/ threads a little. That's how "Horse out of heck was born". It was a horrendous, naturally.

And here we are. Now a more accomplished writer than three years before, with a much firmer grasp on the principles of writing. And while on a nostalgia trip, I decided on a whim that I should give something back to the community that gave me so much. True, the community is not what it used to be and it's almost dead, so lets consider this my personal swansong to the dying days of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and lets drink in the hopes that G5 will manage to capture the feeling of wonder in a 24 year young adult, the same way G4 managed to catch the same feeling in a 16 year old teenager. And next we just might make pigs fly by sewing wings to their spinal columns. But I'm being overly cynical.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you

"Horse out of Hades"

The stories of a bookshop, it's owner, and his neighbor that lives on the floor above him.

I hope you enjoy.