Octavia has been tuning her cello for way too long, and Lyra is getting sick of it.

Because the fireplace is warm and when you find yourself the only pony around, sometimes you find your thoughts drifting. Sometimes you think about your friends, your family, sometimes you just think about where you live and why you consider it home.

Wanted: Expendable fall-mare to undertake dangerous mission.

Moderate intelligence, manipulable ego and history of criminal activity desirable.

Promise of making your wildest dreams come true upon completion.

Picture by Awalex

Everyone has their secrets. Everyone has their regrets. Everyone has made their mistakes, both small and large. Everyone has something that they simply want to forget. Something that they want to hide.

Always the curious one, Twilight discovers the hard way that certain things are hidden for a reason.

Rainbow Dash finds herself hospitalized with injuries after a crash. While there, she finds herself rooming with Ivy Cluster, a young colt suffering from leukemia. Rainbow forms a bond with the colt over Daring Do, cake and the Wonderbolts, but she needs to be strong for her frightened and depressed friend. When Ivy fails to recover, Rainbow must confront the loss and the fundamental fact that life is not fair.

Celestia trusted the Elements to save Luna, but they didn't. Heartbroken, can one man help her to heal?

Princess Luna takes a break from running a court everypony seems to be afraid to attend, to speak with a friend.

Insert title. Add a dash of timing and miscommunication, maybe a sparkle of innuendo. Oops, almost forgot the kitchen sink. Seriously though, the mane 6 help Dash deal with, and find a cure for, her sudden um... change.

Also a rare non shipping rule 63 (gender-bending)
Disclaimer : The story stays technically clean though the topic is adult. It's easiest to explain as better than some prime-time sitcoms, worse than others.

Story based off of this this post.

Also big thanks to my co-author alt-tap. (Who has an awesome stories Sky Pirate Pip and the Dreaded Dreadnaught Die großartige und mächtige Trixieburg

Thanks to Meeester AND timaeusTestified for doing some amazing edits.

Quizzical Greystone has just come to Ponyville as an assistant in Friendship Research. Such a socially inept filly might not be the best pony for the job. But this just might be the job she needs. If you can't make friends in Ponyville can you make friends anywhere?

This story is a sequel to Aegis of the Hive

Natural selection. It is the byword of every changeling queen who has ever lived. The chief resource that has always curbed the hives' growth used to be love. Now though, with Queen Twilight Sparkle's bloodline capable of producing love on their own, the old guard of changeling morality has seen fit to acquire this ability for the next generation before removing all of their future royal daughters' competitors.

Some queens are far closer to this goal than others.

Editor in Chief: A Bitter Pill, and Boldish42