Friendships don't always last, time isn't always well-spent, and not everyone gets a happy ending. Everypony has their regrets, paths not taken, failures and lost loves. Sometimes, it's too late for second chances.

When you've reached the point of insanity, there's no going back, not really. Even when everyone else has forgotten, and you've convinced yourself that you can fit back into the world again, all it takes is one thing to make everything collapse around you.

Lyra tried to convince everyone she saw humans in the Everfree Forest. Once they grew tired of her, and started calling her insane, she stopped. And just as she starts to believe she's passed that point in her life, the river she frequently visits gives her a gift that makes her rethink everything she knows.

Author's Notes:
Woo! First One-Shot. This was pretty fun. Dark and moody description, pretty nice. Got a nifty little emo-looking photoshopped picture there, that's a nice touch. It's symbolic. Symbolic of what? Read the story to find out! (Oh, now you have to.)

Well, I'm not too familiar with the fanon about Lyra and her knowledge about humans, so I made up a lot of it for the purpose of this story. If something doesn't fit with what the community at large agrees on, I'm sorry, kind of. It's all fiction anyway.

I don't write shipping stories, but for all of you that are crazy about it, I left some room open for interpretation about weather L+BB were in a relationship. Honestly, I don't care, and I don't think it has any impact on the story, so I left it out. But I didn't put in anything that said they weren't. So there.

Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, if you couldn't tell.

That's about it, I think.

Octavia dreamed of playing in concert halls, the royal ballroom, but never did she dream of playing at a funeral. Vinyl’s funeral. One last song to Octavia’s departed lover is the only gift she has left to give, that is, unless there’s a way to bring her back.

Inspiration

Princess Twilight Sparkle has always liked to read. Much more than go outside that's for sure. But when her duties as a princess become more than just smiling and waving, the purple pony is having trouble finding time to just sit down and read. When her friend Rainbow Dash suggests a book to Twilight that she can't even read the title, Twilight refuses. Rainbow Dash is horror stuck by her friend. Twilight was the pony who showed Rainbow Dash the joys of reading, and Dash can't imagine what Twilight would be like without her books. But Rainbow Dash isn't giving up that easy! Now the athlete must show her friend that you can't judge a book by its cover, no matter how battered the book is.

Since the first day Button Mash moved to Ponyville he has loved Sweetie Belle but another filly loves Button as much as he loves Sweetie Belle. When this filly comes forward Button abandons his pursuit of Sweetie Belle causing her to sink into depression. How will this affect their friendship and will Sweetie fight for Buttons love? Only time will tell.

Rainbow Dash gets a letter from Princess Celestia in witch writes that she must meet her immediatly. After the meeting, Celestia sends her on an important mission.

But, the question is, why would she choose Rainbow Dash instead of her faithful student,Twilight Sparkle?

Cheese Sandwich doesn't consider his own birthday to be more special than the happy faces he encounters. In fact, he usually treats it just like any other day. But after getting a doozy pointing him towards Ponyville on his special day, it might shock everyone with who he happens to share the same birthday with.