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...
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...
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...
Phoenix Destiny
The battles had dragged on for longer than the lives of men. But all the humans, man, woman, and child, had fallen long before. Dwarf and elf too were gone, as were goblin and gnoll and all their kin. In the end even they, evil beings that they were,...
Well Met By Moonlight (Teaser)
Moonlight shone down from a cloudless sky as Thomas Harris walked through the winter forest. He moved slowly, scanning the trees and ruined houses around him. Most of the buildings were broken down and decrepit; the last time people had lived here had...
Ouroboros
[i]It begins again as I walk into the room where my shadow waits. I have long since lost count of the number of times I've entered this room. Hopefully this time will be the last. But I should...
Maiden Fair
Her skin was as white as fresh cream, pale and perfect. There were no blemishes, not a mole, not a freckle, and not even the slightest hint of a wrinkle. Her eyes were sky blue, cool and lovely as still forest pools. Her lashes were long and lush, and...
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...
Dragonsbane
All women are many things throughout their lives. We begin, of course, as babes at our mother's breasts. Though I had a nursemaid, as was proper for a king's daughter. He was not much of a king, my father. In other lands our kingdom might have been...
Through A Glass Darkly - 5
Whiffletree felt well rested when she rose. It was illogical, of course. They'd escaped a horrible danger, and rested amid the unknown and perhaps the unknowable, and yet she'd slept deeply and soundly. She stretched, as did Luna beside her, and...
Star Tiger, Moon Girl, Chapter 3
Luna walked into her usual dining room and found everything changed. For years the room had been precisely the same; largely empty save for a small table with a single place setting. Now, however, the table had been replaced with a larger one and...
Through A Glass Darkly - 4
They went on. The road had stretched forever, Whiffletree was sure, and the forest nearly as far. They would walk on worn black cobblestones until the universe died its final, cold death. Yet with each stride the road curved and climbed more, snaking...