Everyone gives into hopelessness eventually. When you're the only pony left in the world, and your name isn't actually Twilight Sparkle, what is there to hope for?
Twilight Sparkle is lonely. So lonely, in fact, that she spends many months devising a plan to get Rainbow Dash to snuggle with her in the hopes that doing something so intimate would let Rainbow see just how much she cares about her.
Derpy has a massive crush on Octavia, but she's too scared to admit her true feelings. Hoping for the best, she asks for a private cello lesson and indulges in a little bit of flirting.
Crystal Wishes thought she was content just writing about ponies falling in love. While her career takes off, her love life is somewhat... lacking. Can she be happy living vicariously through her stories or will she find her own happily ever after?
Rarity and Fluttershy have been friends for years, and every week they go to the spa. But after every trip, Rarity finds herself growing greener with envy over Fluttershy's beauty and grace, if not something more than just envy—
Twilight, Princess Luna, and others relate their experiences during the Great Griffin Invasion with the hope that Equestria may benefit from the lessons they've learned.
Most pegasi figure out flying easily enough... but not me. I wanted to fly so badly, but no matter how hard I tried, I never could, and nopony seemed to know why. But just when I was about to give up...
When Pinkie Pie is done making everypony smile for the day, what does she go back to? A lonely room full of overly bright party decorations to keep her smiling. But what happens when the brightness can't cheer her up anymore? Who will make her smile?
After a promising breakthrough with an experimental spell backfires in the worst way possible, Twilight finds herself in a cubed world where she must learn how to use the world around her to survive. [realistic: monsters are more detailed]