Spike has outgrown his youthful crush on Rarity, but now he finds himself desperate to win the heart of another mare closer to his own age: Sweetie Belle. Desperate to make an impression with her, he decides that he needs to get her the greatest, most perfect gift he possibly can. The only problem? He has no idea what that gift might be. Not wanting to let his friends know about his crush before he can give Sweetie her present, he wracks his brain to solve the puzzle of finding a perfect gift alone. Until one night, he finds help from an unexpected source.

Will he be able to find Sweetie's dream gift within his own?

Written for ScarletRibbon for Jinglemas 2022

Link to Fic: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/528780/dreaming-of-a-perfect-gift

This story is a sequel to Symbiosis

Just keep digging. As long as we break through soon, we'll live again. Just keep digging.

Second place entry in the Expanding Universes #2 Competition for the Quills and Sofas Speedwriting Group.
Our prompts were to do a sequel or prequel to a story submitted by another user, and I wrote this based on Silent Whisper's wonderful piece Symbiosis
Lovely cover art is also by Silent!

Link to Fic: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/501669/sol-invictus

SFX Attribution:

Digging 2.wav by Alexbuk -- https://freesound.org/s/541903/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

This story is a sequel to Why I stopped watching My Little Pony

"The Diabolical sometimes assumes the aspect of the Good, or even embodies itself completely in its form. If this remains concealed from me, I am of course defeated, for this Good is more tempting than the genuine Good."
-Franz Kafka

Artwork Done by the amazingly talented Maii. Follow her on fimfic to see some of her great work and her devianArt page KKrazi-DV
Co-written with the incredible MisterNick. I suggest following him as he writes fantastic stories.

Also check out the prequel story Flutterschmooze

Link to Fic: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/336762/wanna-play