It’s true. Sometimes a tear’ll slip out… it’s bound to happen, sometimes… but for the most part, I cry on the inside. But right now, as I stand here watching my friends weeping in a huddle together... I'm not. Not even on the inside.
After suffering a back injury, Big Macintosh returns to work at Sweet Apple Acres. But after he comes home late yet again, he begins to see how he is taking things a little too quickly... and how he is not the only one hurting because of it.
Spike pressures Fluttershy to drink too much soda. She burps all the way to Earth, makes a friend, and has to find a way back home. Based loosely on a prompt from Regidar. Loosely.
Twinkleshine and Melliot's relationship seems perfect to everypony else, when it's anything but. When it seems impossible to get out, Twinkleshine reminds herself that she can.
A recurring nightmare convinces Luna that, since her return, she has never regained her sister's complete trust. And at the forthcoming Festival of the Eclipse, she decides to make amends with a bold gesture: she removes the moon from the sky.
NONE of Twilight's study methods work, not even when Twilight tried to take advantage of Rainbow's coordination skills. So Pinkie comes to save the day, but not without a little assistance from Lil Wayne himself.
After Apple Bloom steals from Sugarcube Corner, her own shame and guilt begin to gnaw away at her until she starts to doubt her own identity as an Apple.
After Fluttershy commits suicide, her friends must fall apart and put themselves back together in order to move past it and see that life really is worth living.