Story: Gunsmoke (Update - Complete!)

[Adventure][Crossover][Romance]

Author: Wanderer D

Description: Desert Mirage lives in a world full of guns, lasers, explosives and people competing to be the best of the best. There she excels at what she does: hunting. She started as a nobody, and yet became one of the most sought-after gunslingers.
Sunset Shimmer was practically born the best of the best. Selected by none other than Princess Celestia to be her prized student... until she ran away to another world in search of power. Through trials and suffering she was eventually taught humility and friendship.
At first blush, they don't have much in common. But their connection runs deep, and sooner or later it will change their worlds forever.

Gunsmoke (New Part 34!)

Additional Tags: Action, Crossover, EqG, Romance, SAO

Story: Tactics of Snowbound Unicorns

[Alternate Universe][Comedy][Slice of Life]

Author: Novel Idea

Description: Twilight’s got her nose stuck in a book. Sunset wants to go see the rest of their friends. As winter descends upon Canterlot, Sunset gets an idea. Things snowball from there.

Tactics of Snowbound Unicorns

Additional Tags: Twilight and Sunny Snow Fight

(New!) Twitter: Sethisto

Story: May Those Who Step Through This Door Know What it Means to Rule

[Drama]

Author: Titanium Dragon

Description: Long ago, the founders of Equestria built a magical portal on sacred ground, hiding their greatest secret on the other side. Generations of leaders stepped through the portal so that they might emerge as the equal of their forebears. Celestia and Luna were the last to enter. For a thousand years, the portal lay forgotten, its purpose lost. Luna thinks it is time that Twilight learn what it means to rule.

May Those Who Step Through This Door Know What it Means to Rule

Additional Tags: Twilight learns the secret of leadership

Story: Change of Heart - The Shadow of Hatred

[Adventure][Drama][Romance]

Author: Chaospaladin

Description: After learning of an assassination plot targeting Princess Twilight, First Lieutenant Flash Sentry is assigned a secret mission to stop the threat and keep her safe. Flash learns quickly such a task will be easier said than done. Powerful forces are at work and will force Flash to battle his weaknesses while finding the strength to fight impossible odds.

Change of Heart: The Shadow of Hatred

Additional Tags: Flash Sentry goes on a secret mission to save Princess Twilight from a vengeful assassin.

Story: Around the World in 81 Days (And Other Problems Caused by Leap Years) (Update Complete!)

[Adventure][Tragedy][Slice of Life]

Author: GaPJaxie

Description:
When Twilight and Celestia have an argument about the existence of leap years, there’s only one possible way to settle their differences: a race around the world!
With the full benefit of hindsight, there may have been other ways.

Around the World in 81 Days (And Other Problems Caused by Leap Years) (New Part 14!)

Additional Tags: Spike Is A Loyal Servant

Story: Changeling Courtship Rituals (Update Part 4!)

[Comedy][Romance]

Author: Codex Ex Equus

Description:
For years, Twilight Sparkle and Queen Chrysalis have been at each other's throats. Both have experienced victory over the other, and both have experienced defeat. Out of all the creatures in Equestria, none despise each other the way the pony Princess and changeling Queen do. They seemed destined to remain locked in battle forever, or at least until one is finally dead at the hooves of the other. The cruel insults, the vicious loathing, and the powerful spells that have passed back and forth between them at each meeting have become the stuff of legend.
Imagine Twilight's surprise when she finds out changelings consider this dating.
And now they're married.

Changeling Courtship Rituals (Update Part 4!)

Additional Tags: Twilight Sparkle accidently marries Queen Chrysalis

Story...?: Twilight Sparkle Lays An Egg

[Drama][Comedy]

Author: Georg

Description: Princess Twilight Sparkle discovers a fact about alicorn reproduction she never expected.

So do the other princesses.

Twilight Sparkle Lays An Egg

Additional Tags: One Egg, Four Princesses, and Spike

Story: Diamond of Desire (Update Complete!)

[Adventure][Dark]

Author: Tony "GaryOak" Genovese

Description:
Blackness whispers within the core of the great diamond, forgotten by those old enough to remember. For centuries, it cried out from within its earthen tomb, too faint for any to hear. With the fall of Lord Tirek, the magic he had stolen surges across Equestria.

The diamond thrums, resonating with the untold energy. Its voice caresses Spike's unsuspecting mind, begging him to seek out the artifact and allow it to transform his deepest desire into reality.

Diamond of Desire (New Part 8!)

Additional Tags: An Ancient Evil Entices Spike

Story: Send Only Memories

[Sci-fi][Dark][Crossover]

Author: Chinchillax

Description: Strange symbols have started appearing all across Equestria that nopony can read, except Discord. As he comes to grips with what this message means, he is determined that nopony find out its secret. If they do, absolutely everypony in Equestria will die. This story is set in the same cosmology as The Three Body Problem trilogy by Cixin Liu, and thus contains spoilers for that universe. But can be read without prior knowledge of that story.

Send Only Memories

Additional Tags: Cosmologically unsettling existential Science Fiction

Story: Making an Old Lady Cry (and other hazards of espionage)

[Comedy][Adventure][Random]

Author: Nyronus

Description: I had a pretty good life. They called me Spit Shine, I worked in the palace, cleaning this, doing that. Hell, I even got to talk to the Princess, and learned all sorts of interesting stuff. It was stimulating, prestigious, and hey, call me weird, but I liked the work. 

Shame I was also secretly a changeling infiltrator with a name too annoying to pronounce in polite society trying to observe and potentially subvert your nation state.

I mean, these things happen.

Of course, you'd be surprised what you can learn about a pony when you have a different perspective.

Making an Old Lady Cry (and other hazards of espionage)

Additional Tags: A changeling plays dead and gains some perspective.

Story: Suncered

[Comedy][Random]

Author: Summer Dancer

Description: Sunset Shimmer is well respected, and has gained a lot of trust over the past year. So when Princess Twilight entrusted her with watching over her one and only niece, she was thrilled. 

But one slip of the tongue around the toddler could break that trust.

Suncered

Additional Tags: The joys of babysitting.

Story: Princessence

[Comedy][Adventure]

Author: Baal Bunny

Description: Dinky has finally gained her wings and become an alicorn! But stopping at the Princess Registry to get her new title brings some discouraging news.

Princessence

Additional Tags: If everypony becomes an alicorn...

Story: The Cloudsdale Report

[Alternate Universe][Drama]

Author: Novel Idea

Description: When Celestia first laid eyes on Twilight Sparkle, she knew she’d seen her somewhere before. Though she’d managed to hide this from both Sunset and Twilight, after they departed for the evening, Celestia needed to be sure. With her trusted aide Raven at her side and a dangerous threat on the horizon, Celestia heads to the offices of the Equestrian Secret Service to investigate her suspicions. Because if she’s right, the possibility of eternal night is the least of Equestria’s concerns.

The Cloudsdale Report

Additional Tags: Nothing is as it seems.

Story: House of Gold (Update Part 4!)

[Tragedy][Drama]

Author: RedSquirrel456

Description: In high Canterlot, there is a pony who is a Prince, but not an alicorn. His friends are what his wealth and splendor can buy. His pride is his name: Blueblood. His vanity and arrogance knows no bounds, his aunt has no idea what to do with him, and his bubble of power and prestige remains secure. But before that, he was just a very small pony in a very big house, with much life still not lived. This is the story of those days, and all that came after.

House of Gold (New Part 4!)

Additional Tags: Blueblood's Life Which Is Sad

Story: The Trials and Tribulations of Trying to Date Twilight Sparkle

[Comedy][Romance]

Author: Codex Ex Equus

Description: Princess Celestia has been in love with Twilight Sparkle for years. The rescue of her sister had been the start, but since then Twilight has saved Celestia, Luna, and their kingdom countless times. However, Celestia's true feelings have remained hidden, even from herself.

That is, until the day her love is revealed to her through a dream. But Celestia is determined to keep her feelings to herself. She has no idea how Twilight will react, and would prefer things remain they way they are, with the two Princesses as friends.

Unfortunately, Luna immediately finds out. A small group of ponies is quickly gathered, all with one goal: to force Celestia to confess her feelings and end her thousand-year relationship drought.

This causes so much chaos that Discord goes on vacation and will not be appearing in this story.

The Trials and Tribulations of Trying to Date Twilight Sparkle

Additional Tags: Celestia is trying to date Twilight

Story: Like a Pegasus in a Pottery Shop

[Slice of Life]

Author: Fifths

Description: The Wonderbolts may be the greatest fliers in Equestria, but overseas in the griffin lands, aviation has become all but synonymous with the name of Gerard Goldenwings. Word gets out that the living legend is vacationing in Equestria, and rumor has it he's looking to take on an apprentice. Rainbow Dash is eager to meet him and prove herself worthy of his tutelage, but she must first perform one simple task: catching a certain, special bird.

Like a Pegasus in a Pottery Shop

Additional Tags: Flying, Growing up, Autumn, Coyote, Roadrunner

Story: Hear the Baby Laughing

[Comedy][Drama]

Author: Aragon

Description: Princess Flurry Heart has been a little kidnapped. And only Shining Armor and Princess Cadance can save—roughly three quarters of—her. (A study on fairytales.)

Hear the Baby Laughing

Additional Tags: Fairy Tales Are Pretty Scary

Story: Sandbox

[Slice of Life]

Author: Summer Dancer

Description: When trying to focus on her studies, Sunset Shimmer is stuck watching an annoying little filly who just won't leave her be.

Sandbox

Additional Tags: Twilight's backstory, Old Sunset Shimmer, Old student days

Sunset Shimmer Day Story: The Nightmare I Need

[Dark][Romance][Human]

Author: Dubs Rewatcher

Description:
Worthless, weak, ugly—as far as Twilight is concerned, that's all she'll ever be. Even three months into their relationship, Twilight still refuses to believe that an absolute goddess like Sunset could ever love a loser like her. And it doesn't help that Twilight spends every night being tortured by nightmares of Midnight Sparkle, the one being who hates Twilight more than she hates herself.

Twilight can only remember a single moment in her life when she felt strong: the five minutes that she spent as Midnight Sparkle. The five minutes she spent with magic.

Now, tortured by fear, anxiety, and never-ending nightmares, Twilight knows the only way to win Sunset's love is to make herself stronger—even if that means resurrecting the demon inside of her.

The Nightmare I Need

Additional Tags: Lesbians vs. Evil Demon Spirits

Story: Daring Do and the Lost Tome of Shadows (Update Part 13!)

[Adventure]

Author: whiterook6

Description: Inept guards, unsupervised death traps, and monologuing villains – Twilight Sparkle thinks the Daring Do stories are too predictable, so when she learns Rainbow Dash and Applejack are going off to have a make-believe Daring Do adventure, she vows to make it an adventure they’ll never forget.

Daring Do and the Lost Tome of Shadows (New Part 13!)

Additional Tags: Indiana Jones meets MLP