Through A Glass Darkly - 3
There was nothing like morning when the two mares woke and began their journey once more. The sky was as dark as ever, the stars as bright and as strange as ever, and the road as black as ever, but it began to climb more often than it sank, and the...
Through A Glass Darkly - 2
The pair, gray earth pony and blue unicorn, slept beside the dying embers of the fire. They slept for an unmarked time, then woke with the stars still gleaming above. The faintest wisp of smoke still came from the fire's ashes, and without a word Luna...
Through A Glass Darkly - 1
An old gray mare walked down a road. The road was made of well-laid cobblestones, as if it led to a busy market square, though the mare could see no buildings. Instead dirt walls rose at either hoof, stretching above her head; the road was one of...
Blood and Fire chapter 2 (teaser)
The sky over the Queen's Tower was overcast, promising rain. Kelwyn looked up at it with a faint frown. "Think you can be there and back without getting wet?" said Harun, standing beside him on the balcony. He looked just as he always did, which...
Uplink
"Connection established." The virtual world shimmered into place around Eli's black-backed jackal avatar. It was a simple, grassy space, presented with near-perfect fidelity, but distinguished from reality by the small HUD that hovered just to one...
Blood and Fire - chapter 1 (teaser)
The Tower of the Eternal Queen soared high into the sky, an elegant spire of stone stabbing up amid the clouds. It was built of silvery gray granite, the blocks so meticulously shaped that the joins between them were nearly invisible. The lower levels...
Black Sepia - chapter 9
Aziraphale stared at the stack of paperwork in front of him. He was perched on the edge of his couch, with the papers set on an end table he'd pulled around. This was because Crowley was curled around him like a backrest, and he hadn't wanted to move...
Black Sepia - chapter 8
They reeled arm in arm out of the festival, laughing. Aziraphale was stuffed to the gills and had gotten his palm read, among other things. Crowley had only tasted bits of the various food on offer, but even he'd gotten enough to make nearly a full...
Firedragons
It was a hot summer day, the sun shining down from a perfectly cloudless sky, warming the slopes of the mountain below. A brisk wind kept the heat from being oppressive, and the dry air meant it wasn't at all muggy. It was the kind of day that was...
Fire and Ice
When the long spring first began to break the ice on the rivers of the outer world, I was born. I broke open the hard shell of my egg, cracking it as the rivers were cracking. Indeed the first sounds I heard were the breaking of the ice outside the...
For Love of Perfection
At the very edge of lands called civilized there lies a tiny town. None have ever bothered to name it. It is simply "the town," the only settlement of humankind for a hundred leagues around. Travelers say that the people who live there are strange...
Marshmallow Fluff
Rarity closed the door to Carousel Boutique and locked it with a little sigh. Another long day of serving the ponies of Ponyville was over. These days, most of her income came from Canterlot and Manehattan, where ponies were far more inclined to wear...