A grumpy tired Rare find is in his store on a cold Harth Warming Eve. He reacts to visitors and well wishers with a dismissive attitude. When he finally gets home has to put up with four really annoying visitors.

Gerard is a griffin who was on a trip to Canterlot for a series of meetings. While crossing over the Everfree forest he hears a wounded animal and takes it over to Fluttershy so see if she can save it.

Cover Image is Snow Griffon by Equestria-Prevails

Coco is about to lose all of her business because she can't afford to make dresses to sell, then somepony else starts making them...

Breezies are from selenaede

Pinkie is going on a very special mission and she can't tell any of her friends. She doesn't know where her quarry is or how she will react when Pinkie arrives. She might even never return home, but the party pony doesn't not care. She has a job to do

A day of of work for Spike lead to Applejack saving his life. He insists on fulfilling the Nobel Dragon Code by repaying her with help around the farm.

How many ponies can tell the difference between a boulder, and a gargoyle egg under the effects of an enlargement spell? Apparently not Rarity, at least not until after it's been sitting in her garden shrunk back to it's normal size for months, and hatches right in front of her little sister...

Based on idea from Sketch Scribbles

Alex just wanted to go for a walk in the woods before dinner, sure he walked a little long then was advisable but he never expected this to happen. Now he is somehow stuck in world that he does not fit in.

Cover art by Xeno

It has been said that the beating of the Breezie's wings can cause storms to appear in the Everfree. The smallest of changes can cause great effects to occur.

Proofread by FtDlulz

Cranky and Matilda want a child, one night one comes to them

The foals of Ponyville have always enjoyed Hearth's Warming eve, everyone is so cheerful and they get great gifts from their parents. But this years something else has come to pay them all a visit, and it is not happy with how they have been acting. Is hides in the dark and wait from them.

this is a Krampus story, for those who don't know who that is, he punished wicked children.
There is a lot of foalabuse in this story so if you don't want to read that, please don't read this story.

cover art from guterrez on deviantart