MLP-Literature-Club

Trixie craned her head around the carousel she’d been hiding behind, watching Starlight and Sunburst leave the amusement park. If they were going for lunch, they’d be sitting down. Talking. It would be the perfect chance to get them to open up to each other. The only problem, Trixie wondered, was how? Of course, it would depend on WHERE there were going to eat. It hardly seemed ethical to spy on her best friend, but Trixie soothed her conscience by reminding herself she was doing it to make Starlight happy. The end result would make it seem trivial. “What are you doing?” came a dull voice from behind Trixie. The ma

Fifteen years later... “Thanks for taking me for a night out in Manehatten, Rarity,” Starlight Glimmer said as the two unicorns strolled through the sprawling city’s lantern-lit streets. “I never really had a chance to do something like this before.” “All the more reason to do it, darling. Everypony should experience it at least once.” A unicorn stallion sat in the darkness of a nearby alleyway, a tattered rag draped over his shoulders. His thick, messy beard was mostly gray, clearly showing his age with only a few dark streaks remaining from his youth. His mane and tail were equally gray and tatte

There had to be a way. There had to be some kind of magic that could prevent ponies from getting their cutie marks. Miss Crayola’s words had struck a chord with Starlight: “Only an exceptional wizard could do anything like that.” I don’t need friends. I don’t need anypony! Starlight tried to convince herself. A pain deep in the pit of her stomach, however, knew it wasn’t true. She did need somepony who cared, but how could she trust that more cutie marks wouldn’t show up to whisk them away like what happened with Sunburst? The only way to be sure was to get rid of cutie marks entirely. If it took a

Starlight’s mother didn’t say a word their entire walk home, but Starlight could tell from her unblinking stone-like expression that she was in for trouble when they got back to the house. The filly opened her mouth a crack, wanting to ask her mom what was wrong. She held her words in, however, afraid of what the answer might be. When they arrived home, Starlight went right up to her room, desperate to separate herself from that blank expression on her mom’s face. She laid down on her bed and opened up the book she'd been reading to the bookmarked page. Only a few moments later, she heard Mom shout. “Starlight Aurora

Chapter 4 The sun was bright overhead, but Apple Bloom barely felt the warm rays as she sat in the shade of the nearby trees. It had been several hours since she had fled the pond in the orchard’s center; since that time, the young girl had attempted to understand what had happened to her. All around Apple Bloom grew trees in various stages of life, ranging from newly risen sprouts to towering apple trees. Random patches of overgrown grass joined these plants, some climbing high enough to touch the lower branches of the surrounding trees. With a nervous chuckle, Apple Bloom watched as a patch of grass several paces away erupted from t