This is a story of Spike's sixth birthday party in Ponyville a total of seven years after the defeat of Nightmare Moon by Twilight Sparkle and her friends. Spike has spent the whole week before hand planning this party just so he could tell Rarity how he feels about her. He spends the whole day at Sweet Apple Acres getting ready with Pinkie Pie, Applejack and Twilight. When the time of the party comes around instead of finding their friend Rarity politely knocking on the door they are confronted by the realization that she is kidnapped and Spike is only one the Kidnappers want for the ransom drop off. Will our dragon manage to save his fashionable fashionista? Will Spike ever get to say what he wanted to Rarity? Will Rarity figure out who kidnapped her? What will every pony think of the background relationships included in this story?

Pinkie Pie is being tormented by horrific nightmares. Unable to deal with it by herself anymore she seeks out Twilight's help, but will it have been the best decision when she finds herself alone in an abandoned, fog filled Ponyville?

Sequel: http://www.fimfiction.net/story/4676/Too-Shy-for-a-Rainbow

There have been a LOT of high-quality readings of Silent Ponyville, but this one is my personal favorite:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGh01rbB4o3xoSV7a6Omc-UJROXHRZ1Hv

Twilight is granted the opportunity to show off some of her smarts by giving a presentation at the Canterlot School of Magic about life in and around Equestria. However, while she practices one of the transformation spells she got in a book from Zecora, she finds out a lot about the spell, but much, much more about her little dragon assistant.

When your life is as dull a gray as the world that surrounds you, the mundanities can make it all seem meaningless. Sometimes all we need is a little color -- or six -- to reintroduce us to what truly makes life worth living.

*6-16-2017 Edit, added Rainbow Dash tag because it triggered knighty.*