Category: One-shots

Story
The Carousel

by Monochromatic — The destination is often what many people know about, but it is often the journey that holds the memories for those involved. After an encounter with a hated rival during a festival she’d been looking forwards to all year, Rarity learns that sometimes her anger and pride blind her to what — or rather, who — is most important.
1. Chapter 1
  5.9 K Words • Nov 21, '21
MLP:FiM • Human • Slice of Life • Fluttershy • Rarity • Sweetie Belle
6.0 K Sep 4, '22 Monochromatic 0 Oneshot
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Chapter
IX. A Name Hidden In Plain Sight
by Monochromatic — Ambris Knot had a strange name. Well, not a strange name, just one that didn’t sound all that nice or interesting and certainly not one that, according to her editor, would inspire people to pick up her books. And she agreed. In the past months, she’d poured herself into imagining a fiction book all about an archaeological explorer going off on intrepid adventures. She had finally come up with a penname she liked, figured out most of the outline and the settings, and had a main character she was…
1. The Library’s Volunteer
  5.4 K Words • Oneshot
MLP:EQG • Slice of Life • Ambris Knot • Daring Do • OC
459 Sep 4, '22 0
Teen T
Chapter
XIV
by Monochromatic — XIV. Words Spoken in Anger Sharp Silk hated the dresses. He hated them, and in retrospect, I can't blame him. No, Twilight, I cannot blame him. Regardless of how much heart we put into them, they were hardly a display of my abilities. They were simple and elegant, yes, but considering the fact that the submission deadline had been announced nearly three weeks prior… well… it's natural he expected something more elaborate. I was shamed when he critiqued them, but I was also not terribly…
1. The Last Train Home
  45.2 K Words • Oneshot
MLP:FiM • Romance • Slice of Life • Rarity • Twilight
1.9 K Sep 4, '22 0
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Story
An Old Fool

by Monochromatic — As Starswirl the Bearded ponders what stayed and what was forgotten on Hearth’s Warming Eve following his disappearance, he finds that his two pupils might have forgotten him.
1. The Musings of…
  3.2 K Words • Nov 21, '21
MLP:FiM • Slice of Life • Celestia • Luna • Starswirl
3.2 K Sep 4, '22 Monochromatic 0 Oneshot
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Chapter
Chapter 1
by Monochromatic — ”So, Rarity, why did you call your shop ‘Carousel Boutique’?” “Hmm? Oh! Oh, that’s a very good question, darling!I was thirteen, I think? Or almost fourteen years old, and…” "Are you ready?" Sitting in the middle of Rarity's room, Fluttershy and Sweetie Belle looked up from the dollhouse they'd been playing with and looked towards the closed bathroom door. As far as they knew, it was the fifth time Rarity had announced her exit without actually...coming out from behind the door…
1. The Carousel
  6.0 K Words • Oneshot
MLP:FiM • Human • Slice of Life • Fluttershy • Rarity • Sweetie Belle
5.9 K Sep 4, '22 0
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Chapter
2. Dramatics and Confessions
by Monochromatic — It was an unbreakable, unbendable and unavoidable law of the universe that, when Rarity called, Twilight Sparkle would always answer. And nothing could have prepared her for the wave of emotions that drowned her at seeing the unicorn again. She could only stare at her, completely at a loss for words. Rarity, a few feet away, looked at Twilight with her head tilted to the side. She looked nothing like how Twilight remembered her. She remembered an elderly pony with a grey mane tied in a bun, a…
1. Injuring Eternity
  46.6 K Words • Oneshot
MLP:FiM • Romance • Sad • Rarity • Twilight
8.4 K Sep 4, '22 0
Teen T
Chapter
XV – XVII
by Monochromatic — XV. The Deafening Silence We did not talk that week. Or, well, we did, I suppose, if you count monosyllabic greetings and thank yous for the coffee and teas as ‘talking’. You remember what I said earlier? How I missed you so horridly those few days we were embroiled in the entire Spike affair and we barely spoke? Well, this, darling, this was much worse. I did not know what to say, what to do, or how to make amends for the damage I’d done. There is nothing for me in…
1. The Last Train Home
  45.2 K Words • Oneshot
MLP:FiM • Romance • Slice of Life • Rarity • Twilight
4.2 K Sep 4, '22 0
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Chapter
The Musings of…
by Monochromatic — Sitting by a hallway window in Canterlot Castle, Starswirl the Bearded watched life pass him by. Hearth’s Warming Eve was very different now than it was back then, before his thousand year long self-exile. A small celebration meant to honor the recent unification of pony races was now a kingdom-wide event where the holiday’s history did not matter quite as much as how many presents one received. “Quickly now! It’s already night-time! The feast won’t be ready!” cried a cook, rushing past…
1. An Old Fool
  3.2 K Words • Oneshot
MLP:FiM • Slice of Life • Celestia • Luna • Starswirl
3.2 K Sep 4, '22 0
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