Read about APPLES.
For older fanfics, be sure to hit up this post, and it has links to even older ones! Thanks to Whisper Key as always for digging them all up.
Slice of Life
Dogged Devotion by Pascoite [6k words]
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Dogs and cats have very different ideas about what makes a princess, but Winona never cared much anyway. She simply loves being part of the family.
Three Questions by klassify [2k words]
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Applejack doesn't mind looking after Sweetie Belle for the weekend. After all, she's handled worse! But things get awkward fast when Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom start asking about sex.
A Brush with Beauty by Burraku_Pansa [6k words]
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Paul Matthews is a young man of average height and average weight and fairly average disposition. He is normal, and abnormally so. That rarely seen kind of person who, even in their early years, gives off the impression that they are destined for a moderately successful career in middle management at some cold, gray corporation.
Paul Matthews is about to come very close to something that few people do.
Comedy
Mirror Mirror by Major-Monster [1k words]
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Applejack feels like there’s something else with her. In her head. It’s like a friend to her.
She can’t tell her other friends. Twilight would ask her about therapy, and Applejack doesn’t have the time to waste by going to a stranger just for the stranger to tell her she’s bonkers or Celestia knows what.
Mistaken Wife-dentity by TCC56 [3k words]
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Autumn Blaze was never the most socially aware, even among the kirin. Coming to the foreign land of Equestria didn't help. Probably her greatest faux pas was asking Applejack where her wife was.
"My what?"
"You know, your wife, Fluttershy."
Rainbow Dash's Keys by Art Inspired [1k words]
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Applejack visits Twilight at her library treehouse one day only to find that the door is locked and Twilight isn't responding.
Luckily, Rainbow Dash has the keys to every building in Ponyville.
"Uh, Rainbow?" Applejack asks her kindly, "Exactly why... and how... do you have all of these keys?"
You Can't Keep 'em All Away by dart157 [3k words]
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It had been about a year since Applejack cordoned off a section of her orchard for the vampire fruit bats on account of Fluttershy's word, and it worked in her favor. The year's harvest was shaping up to be the most bountiful one yet, and she wasn't going to miss a single apple. However, when a whole basket of Honeycrisp goes missing in the middle of the afternoon, she becomes fixated on finding out who, or what, took them. Perhaps a stakeout is in order.
Fancy Mathematics by The Original Pony [16k words]
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The Apple Family pride themselves on a humble, honest lifestyle. They only make straight and honest deals, most of the money made from the harvests is reinvested in the land, and they make do with what they have, with very little space in the budget for frivolities. This life of hard work and simple pleasures has come at only one cost: the full time work has weighed on Applejack and Big Macintosh ever since their parents passed away, leaving them unable to complete middle school.
Apple Bloom is shielded from this fate by her sibling's labor of love. However, when she happens on a discovery revealing millions of bits in the Apple Family account, will she and the rest of the Crusaders be able to handle it responsibly?
How Does She Know? by Art Inspired [1k words]
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Rainbow gets called out again for lying.
But this time, she counters Applejack by asking her how she can always tell when somepony is lying.
The Great Ponyville Snowball Fight by 8686 [11k words]
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On a winter morning in Ponyville, Rainbow Dash throws a snowball at Applejack.
Things escalate quickly.
Sad/Dark
Nothing Out of Place by Acologic [2k words]
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There was nothing to notice, and then there wasn't anything left to notice.
Malus Maleficarum by SaddlesoapOpera [4k words]
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Against her grandmother's wishes, Applejack stubbornly goes to work in a disused field on the edge of the Apple family's lands. What she finds there is far, far worse than an upset grandparent.
Strawberry Pin by Night-Shine [1k words]
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A small disagreement over clothing led to a relationship crisis.
Shipping
Skyseed by CharmingMarething [1k words]
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Applejack and Fluttershy teach each other new words while blackberry picking.
Drama
Exercise by n3k1dsk1llz [1k words]
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Applejack never got any blue ribbons from the nationals even though she worked her hooves off. Still...she keeps practicing.
Farm Responsibility by HapHazred [4k words]
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When Macintosh was a teenager, him and Applejack both tried to take charge of the farm once their parents had left it to them.
Macintosh succeeded, and now Applejack lives a more carefree life whilst Macintosh shoulders the stress of the harvest, the bills, and keeping his family together alone.
It's not easy.
General Amnesty by Cynewulf [11k words]
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The great evils of the world have clashed with the champions of all that was good and in true dialectical fashion, exhausted each other. The world Rainbow Dash and her wife Applejack live in now is the World After, one full of uncertainties and difficult questions.
Rainbow Dash doesn't care about any of that. She has a mission, and she intends to finish it, come hell or high water...
Or her spouse.
Come On Home by Jhoira [1k words]
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Applejack is old, and being called for supper. But she decides to take a detour down memory lane.
No Pony Else Was In The Room Where It Happened. . . by Matthais Unidostres [5k words]
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After a particularly explosive fight between Applejack and Strawberry Sunrise, Applebloom decides that if she unknowingly brought an end to the Apple-Pear feud, then she could easily end this new Apple-Strawberry feud.
And so, in accordance to Applebloom's scheme,
an apple farmer and a strawberry grower walk into a pear farmer's home, diametrically opposed.
They emerge with a compromise, having opened doors that were previously closed.
The strawberry grower emerges with a hot new product that she can sell for however much she wants.
The apple farmer emerges with a new market and buyer for her crops.
And here's the pièce de résistance:
No pony else was in the room where it happened. . .
Sci-Fi
To Stand On Your Own Four Legs by 0011010000110010 [10k words]
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After a rough night’s sleep, Applejack heads into town to hopefully be cleared by Twilight to start working again. Apple harvest season is fast approaching and Applejack doesn’t have much time left to figure out how to applebuck with these new legs.
