If ponies think Anon is some kind of weird animal, and Fluttershy can talk to animals, can animals and Anon talk to each other?

To make the cover image, I heavily edited the MLP IDW comics panel https://derpibooru.org/images/3007495.

When magic's slow decline dooms Equestria, ponies write letters to a future they don't expect to see.

_{This story MIGHT turn out to be an entry in the "A Thousand Words Contest," maybe?
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Locked in a room with a vampire, Twilight Sparkle awaits her own death.

"I'm counting off the seconds until you die," the domineering redhead said coldly. "One. Two. Three. Four. Five..."

This story might or might not be an entry in the A Thousand Words Contest. (Who even knows? I don't think I'm all that good at tag targeting, and an author can only have one final entry per category.)
_{(Initial contest announcement with more details is here. It already has at least fifty or sixty entries, so at this point I'm just trying to torment Bicyclette by promoting the contest even more to help make her and her co-judges read more stories than anyone has ever had to read before!
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"Any regular old unicorn can do magic. That's nothing special." Years ago when they were fillies, that's what Twilight told Trixie.

What if Trixie had listened?

Mild Content Warning? In this story, somepony does briefly verbally suggest the possibility of serious physical injury and spurting blood if a trick goes wrong. But compared to the actual MLP:FiM show about Trixie launching herself from a cannon into a manticore's throat? Maybe it almost isn't violent ENOUGH for a Y-7 rated cartoon.

(As usual, I made the story image myself by editing MLP screencaps.)

Pegasi have their own ways of saying, "You're awesome and I love you."

Prereaders: CarlosSainz55 (no, not THAT CarlosSainz55, a different one.)

<sub>Contest Link Thingy: https://www.fimfiction.net/group/216159/bikes-personal-contests/thread/496122/bpc-v-lofty-and-holiday-contest-2022-may-22-jul-31

Art: Mockingbirb made an MLP screencap and edited the wing anatomy, for reasons.</sub>

Every day, all day, Trixie transforms pebbles and bits of rubbish into teacups, and she is happy.

Content Warning: Seriously, this is science fiction AU horror with dystopian elements. But isn't it interesting to see things through a different point of view? (scream emoji) 😱

Let us thank the prereaders: Carlos S., Cloud Ring. (The prereaders are not responsible for my own mistakes and shortcomings, though.)

This story might be an entrant in "Science Fiction Contest II," who knows?