A thousand years ago, Luna arrives at the final battle of the Crystal War. It's time to finish this.

Written for Bean's Writing Group, prompt #7 "Arrival".

With feedback from Punished Bean, short-tale, Bicyclette, and Gay for Gadot.

There was this old saying: Best to let sleeping kirin lie, lest you rekindle their flame.

The idiom does no justice to the kirin. From my experience, equating their heat to that of an old argument was like comparing Celestia's sun to a candle—absolutely inadequate. An argument was mundane, bitter, and lasted what felt like forever. A kirin was the exact opposite. 

And… well, in my mind, our story deserved to be immortalized. I wanted something to remember her by—even if it was, in all likelihood, a unnecessary endeavor. For how could I ever forget? 

Written for Bean’s Writing Group prompt #2, “You shouldn’t let kirins lie to you”.

With help from Bean, Techno Flare, Gay for Gadot, thesmokinguy, Scriblits Talo, Short Tale, Nighthawk, and Milk & Honey.

Before Snowfall Frost could erase Hearth’s Warming, two spirits had shown her visions of the past and present. A third spirit, the Spirit of Hearth's Warming Yet to Come, now takes her to the future.

In this city filled with snow, fog, and powerful streetlights, Snowfall Frost overhears a conversation between two old friends: Trixie, a brilliant artificer, and Rainbow Dash, Inquisitor of the Order of the Sun. And Snowfall learns what truly desperate ponies will do for survival…

An alternate scenario for A Hearth’s Warming Tail and inspired by Frostpunk.

Written for Bean's Writing Group prompt 35, "An unexpected factoid about magic".

With feedback from:
Summer Knight, short tale, and Scriblits Talo. Thanks for your help!

Content Warning: Horror and body integrity dysphoria. If you don’t want to read about body dysphoria/dysmorphia in a horror setting, skip this story. Transgender people, this warning is especially relevant.

On an otherwise calm morning, with Twilight out of town, Pinkie Pie has a revelation. 

She doesn’t feel like herself. She’s not sure if she wants to feel like herself, either.

She wants to be something different. Something… missing.

Written as an entry for Bike’s A Thousand Words Contest in the Grim category.

Also written for Bean’s Writing Group prompt 33, “Something is missing”.

With feedback from TheWanderingZebra, Arachne, MockingBirb, Shirlendra, and others. Thanks for your help!

Now with a youtube audio reading from The Mystery Fluttershy Fan.

Princess Luna was growing tired of all the myths that had sprung up over the thousand years of her banishment. Legend was never as impactful as history, and it was important for ponies to know the stories as the latter. With Hearth’s Warming coming up, she worked with her marefriend Coco Pommel to help design accurate costumes for the pageant. Truly accurate, down to the very weave of the fabric. Though it wouldn't solve all of the historical inaccuracies, presenting the true appearance of Equestria's founders to the eyes of the herd would be a step in the right direction.

But to Coco Pommel, something about Luna's demeanor as they worked on the costumes had been… off. And she would wish that she had confronted Luna sooner.

Written for the May 2021 Original Pairing Contest by PRINCESS CADANCE.

Edited by Techno Flare with too many late nights. With help from smokey, short-tale, RanOutOfIdeas, Bicyclette, TCC56, and others. Thank you guys so much, your advice was invaluable to me.

Written as a part of Bean's Writing Group, prompt "This isn't what I was promised". Thanks to everyone there for being awesome.

Wallflower and Sunset have been hanging out a lot recently, and with this newest invitation, Wallflower isn't sure if they're just friends.

Written for Scampy's SunFlower Shipping Contest! Support the cause!

This story is a sequel to The Arrival

Dewdrop is a starving artist in a small town. But he’s received an important commission, and he has to make it perfect. 

Everything is going well, until he gets into an ‘accident’ and loses all of his work. 

After that, Dewdrop is stuck with no painting, and fewer operable limbs than usual. And why not add in two ponies flimflamming him out of his bits for an utterly unremarkable paintbrush.

Sometimes, life is full of surprises.

It's the Running of the Leaves again in Ponyville, and Scootaloo's decided to make up for lost time. But going for first place, especially with some fierce competition, is going to leave her feeling tired. 

Fortunately, Sweetie Belle's got a solution. Unfortunately, somepony doesn't understand what that solution actually is. 

Post Season 10. All characters are adults in this story. 

Idea used with permission from Sockpuppet! Effective sequel to his stories “For Better and for Worse” and “Out of the Running”; this story is not canon to his works in any way. These are not required reading.

Birdstrike has a talent for crashing into airships to determine what’s wrong. But what she doesn’t have is a talent for being invincible. Every time she uses her unique and potentially life-saving talent, she hurts herself.

That’s where Ice Box, a unicorn and one of Birdstrike’s bodyguards, comes into the picture. She can cast a protective freezing spell, allowing Birdstrike to exercise her talent without being hurt. Ice Box and her team help Birdstrike out whenever they go out on a job, testing airships.

But when Ice Box crosses horns with Iron Will over his new airship, things start going right. Well, depending on your definition of “right”. 

As inspired by Estee's blog post.

Image credit to: 
Bluetech for the cannon;
Dragonchaser123 for the chicken;
Maddieadopts for the pegasus base;
And the show for the background image.