No matter how good you are at what you do, there is always somepony better. It's a tough fact of life, but who decides who's better?

Maybe Twilight just has a little something she didn't. 

Night is but a few hours, though it may not always feel that way.

A guard who has been given the task of patrolling the royal library at night laments about his job.

A fairly out of the blue one-shot I hope is at least amusing.

Rainbow Dash's father is dying in hospital. All Twilight can do is watch and offer some comforting words.

Words are powerful things. They can hurt, and they can heal; you just have to know the right ones. But when somepony loses their father, what are the right ones?

Twilight Sparkle was never cut out for this type of thing.

And yet she volunteered. Volunteered for this expedition. Is she really ready to risk her life in an attempt to spite those who doubt her?

The fact she is here now suggests: yes she was.

In a post-apocalyptic landscape ravaged by natural disasters, a man returns to his hometown a year after ‘The Event’, having walked 2000 miles in search of the thing that matters most. He must traverse his wrecked hometown to discover the fate of his family. Whether they are living, dead or converted.
He is determined to finish the last of his 2000 mile journey; in one form or another.

Conversion Bureau tale set in the universe of I Am Alive

“to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war… to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small… to establish conditions under which justice and respect for… treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained…to promote social progress and better standards of life…” – United Nations mission statement
A soldier, a linguist and a doctor. Three men that normally would walk past one another are forced to meet as they find themselves on a strange new planet. Now they must co-operate to not only find a way back home but to establish their organisation with whatever resources they can acquire.