This is the first of two hoped-for holiday updates, both lightly themed towards October 31st. If I can get the next one up before we officially cross into November, it'll be an intentional theme for a complete one-shot short story. Having said theme link into this new 5k chapter was more -- inadvertent.
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/342886/anchor-foal-a-romantic-cringe-comedy
But really, if you were going through this sort of encounter for the first time, wouldn't you be tempted to classify it as horror?