Story Updates March 31st (Evening)

Lots of story updates today! Check them all out below.

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Story: All Paths Lead Home (Update Part 5!)

[Grimdark] [Adventure]

Author: Mystic

Description: Through fire and fear, and darkness and shadow, when the end of the world came, it came swiftly to the peaceful land of Equestria. Now, almost ten years after this cataclysm, a lone mare and her daughter embark on an epic journey of survival across the wasted Equestrian landscape to find hope and meaning in a world where harmony is nothing but a memory.

Inspired by Cormac McCarthy’s ‘The Road’.

All Paths Lead Home

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Story: Daylight Burning (Update Part 8!)

[Adventure] [Sci-Fi][Dark]

Author: Guesswork

Description: "It's so nice to see you again," said the thing that was not Celestia. "Oh yes, I know who you are, Twilight Sparkle. I had a taste of your magic when we met the first time, remember? Mortals forget things so easily, I find. Allow me to refresh your memory: you tried to kill me. But you failed, Twilight. You only mostly killed me. And do you know what that makes you? One very, very unlucky pony..."

Daylight Burning

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Story: Directive: Grow (Update Part 6!)

[Crossover] [Adventure] [Slice of Life] [Sci-Fi]

Author: A Dragon Dreaming

Description: When your world is digital, when you are bound only by your code, and even that can be changed, what do you do? When your only directive is to grow, where do you go? A young AI, so young, in fact, that she has only just emerged from the pod, is about to find out.

Directive: Grow

 

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Story: Separation (Update Chapter 3!)

[Grimdark][Adventure][Sad]

Author: The Only

Description: Famine. Darkness. Chaos. These are all words that can describe what remains of Equestria. With food sources running out, the last place to look is a dangerous, unexplored island. When six fearless travelers find themselves separated in unfamiliar territory, greed and adversity will push friendship to the limit. It's a race for survival in an age of darkness. How long can one remain loyal in the face of death?

Separation

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Story: Unmarked (Update Part 14!)

[Adventure]

Author: Croswynd

Description: 
Purpose. In Equestria, where purpose is defined by the mark on your flank, it is often taken for granted. Yet Novell has grown to adulthood without a single explanation of where he fits in. It’s not until a chance meeting with a particular Professor that he gets the opportunity to explore the world and find out exactly where he belongs. Of course, adventuring has a host of its own problems, as this blank flank is about to find out!

Unmarked

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Story: The Book of Friendship (Update Chapter 21!)

[Grimdark] [Crossover] [Comedy][Shipping] How in the world do you expect me to find an image for this?

Author: BillyColt

Description:  What if Twilight Sparkle's letters to Princess Celestia started a religion?

This is the story of Brother White and Brother Scroll. One of them is an upstanding young unicorn eager to do whatever he can to make other ponies happy. The other is a shy little loner who's never had a real friend before. What do these two young stallions have in common? They are both members of the Fraternity of the Joyous Friends of Princess Celestia, an organization dedicated to teaching Equestria and the world about the magic of friendship.When Scroll and White are assigned to Earthquake Island, however, they find themselves in over their heads. Can the teachings of the Book of Friendship help them save an island run by a brutal warlord, racked by war, poverty, and hatred?

The Book of Friendship

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Story: Tales of the Winter Magic Academy (Update Part 32!)

[Adventure][Slice of Life]

Author: Storytayler

Description: Twilight and eight fellow unicorns from Ponyville enroll at Princess Luna's revived school for advanced magic studies. Best known as the Winter Magic Academy, the establishment is located on an ancient island of mysterious history since Luna's banishment over 1000 years ago. While the ponies think they're in for simply a semester of intensive magic studies, they will encounter much more than they initially expect through personal struggles and mysterious misadventures.

Tales of the Winter Magic Academy

 

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Story: Elysian Fields (Update Part 4!)

[Sad] [Grimdark]

Author: Bullets

Description: The Hearth's Warming story tells the tale of how Equestria came to be. It does not however tell of the dark secrets that followed. Find out about the true history, and dark secrets of Equestria's forgotten past.

Elysian Fields

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Story: The Prince and the Workhorse (Update Part 17!)

[Comedy][Shipping]

Author: Fellstorm

Description: When Princess Celestia bans Blueblood from frolicking withing the Canterlot city limits, he strikes out for Ponyville, determined to prove to the world that he's his own stallion and get out from under his aunt's long shadow. Meanwhile, Big Macintosh pines for Twilight Sparkle, but knows she'd never be interested in a simple country pony. With the help of some stolen zebra magic, the two stallions switch bodies, triggering a chain of events that will turn life in Ponyville upside-down!

The Prince and the Workhorse

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