300 Words

by Xort

Rating: everyone
Tags: Slice of Life
Length: 374

Back when Equestria Daily hosted the 300 word fic challenge, I had a lot of fun writing mine, even if I missed the deadline to submit it. Having to try and fit an entire story in only 300 words was challenging and enjoyable, so I decided to do it with everypony.

This is a collection of 300 word drabbles, each centered around a different character. For the most part, they will be utterly unrelated, but I might occasionally make an exception.

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2011-07-10 22:38:54 UTC

Trixie

"Mommy? Are we there yet?"

The energetic foal could hardly contain himself, almost a blur of

light blue as he tore in circles around the interior of the carriage.

His mother laughed gently, holding a hoof in front of him to bring

him to a halt.

"Calm down, Spark. We're almost

there." Failing to placate her young one, Trixie sighed as she

thought back to that day. Things had been almost polar opposites back

then; she had been the famous one, the "Great and Powerful

Trixie," and Twilight Sparkle had just been another face in the

crowd. Now things were reversed. Most everypony in Equestria knew who

Twilight Sparkle was, and hardly anypony remembered Trixie as

anything more than a crackpot street performer.

Suddenly, the carriage shuddered to a

halt, and the pony pulling shouted, "We're here!" Spark

jetted from the carriage, followed by Trixie. She stopped a moment to

unhitch the pony from the front of the carriage, then they gathered

Spark and approached the library they had travelled all this way to

visit. Raising a hoof, Trixie knocked.

"Hello?" A familiar face

peeked out of the open door to greet them: light purple coat, dark

purple and pink mane. No doubt about it, this was…

"Twilight? I'm not sure if you

remember me. It's Trixie." Recognition dawned on the purple

unicorn's face, followed by a subtle uneasiness. She had obviously

not forgotten Trixie's past behavior.

"I know we had our differences in

the past, but I want to move past all that. What you did back then

was so amazing, it made me realize how hollow my life really was. I

turned myself around, though. This is my husband, Patch, and my son.

We named him Spark, after you. Can we come in?"

Twilight smiled. "Sure, I

suppose."

A/N: Bam. Not counting this note,

exactly 300 words of Trixie goodness. I wrote this for Equestria

Daily's 300 word challenge, and although I was a bit frustrated at

not being able to put everything I wanted into it, I rather had fun

trying to communicate the message in fewer words than normal.

Unfortunately, I missed the deadline to send it in. Oh well. As

always, tell me what you think.