Second place is just the first pony to lose, and she certainly felt second.

A guard on night duty, having little else to do, begins to compile a list of complaints about his post.

Words are powerful things. They can hurt, and they can heal; you just have to know the right ones. But when somepony loses their father, what are the right ones?

Twilight Sparkle is alone. She was never cut out for this type of thing. Whether a fighter or a scholar, the sword was going to be of little help

I don’t think anyone knows what really happened, but other survivors have taken to calling it ‘The Event’. In a cosmic coincidence, days after the first quake contact was made with a nation which quite literally appeared by magic.

A soldier, a linguist and a doctor. Three men that normally would walk past one another are forced to meet as they find themselves on a strange new planet. Now they must co-operate to not only find a way back home but to establish their organisation