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Stories that touch your heart and perhaps bring a tear to your eye are in this category. Whether it be an unexpected death or a day that just didn't go well, these stories will make you want a hug.

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TThe Longest Night
MLP: FiM
Sad
Slice of Life
On the first night of Luna's banishment Celestia finds two alicorns in a crater.
Twilight
Celestia
Luna
Tundara · 6k words · 2,856 33 · 43k views
EAn Old Coot
MLP: FiM
Drama
Sad
Slice of Life
Spike's eleven year nap is interrupted by a little filly in his treehouse...
Spike
Celestia
Luna
OC
Bachiavellian · 9k words · 2,058 23 · 21k views
TWhy?
MLP: FiM
Sad
Slice of Life
As an orca pony swims one night among the fiery monuments of a global conflict, she finds a sailor freezing to death in the arctic cold. She has only one question for him.
OC
The 24th Pegasus · 4.4k words · 706 5 · 6.1k views
ERandom
MLP: FiM
Sad
Slice of Life
Pinkie Pie's grandmother is a draconequus. Pinkie Pie's mother is not. This causes some arguments as to how the newborn Pinkie should be raised...
Pinkie
OC
Other
Bugle · 6.6k words · 762 7 · 7.4k views
EWhat is a Name?
MLP: FiM
Sad
Slice of Life
Pinkie Pie finds herself in a position where she can no longer recall the years she has spent in Ponyville, as if the memories were erased from her mind entirely. She must rediscover herself, her love for her friends, and her passion for life.
Pinkie
Main 6
Key Tapper · 32k words · 2,284 38 · 29k views
TForever Young
MLP: FiM
Sad
Slice of Life
Fluttershy and Discord have far different life expectancies, but Discord will do anything to keep his one and only friend.
Fluttershy
Rarity
Discord
Hyperexponential · 4.1k words · 2,598 48 · 40k views
TTantabus, Do Your Worst
MLP: FiM
Drama
Sad
Luna created the Tantabus to prevent her from ever turning back into Nightmare Moon. The Tantabus interpreted her command in a way she never expected.
Luna
Nightmare Moon
Main 6
Tantabus
Georg · 2.4k words · 846 11 · 13k views
EFrom the Mouths of Fillies
MLP: FiM
Sad
Not everything is as it seems when Dinky visits her mother in the hospital.
Rainbow Dash
Derpy
Dinky Hooves
Sparkler
Comma-Kazie · 3.2k words · 836 11 · 14k views
TChanges
MLP: FiM
Sad
Slice of Life
After Ditzy Doo passes away, care for her children falls to her old friend, Rainbow Dash.
Rainbow Dash
Derpy
Other
Dinky Hooves
Sparkler
Comma-Kazie · 26k words · 1,251 21 · 14k views
EWhen The Field Becomes Fallow
MLP: FiM
Sad
Slice of Life
I love my brother. I know lesser mares would've quit by now. When he boarded that train to the changeling territory, he was still Macintosh. When he came back he was still the same, but... different.
Applejack
Apple Bloom
Big Mac
chief maximus · 2.9k words · 897 14 · 12k views
EFalling Leaves of Oak
MLP: FiM
Drama
When the Ponyville library is destroyed by Tirek’s rampage, the last Oakleaf is called to cure the destroyed oak. It is an impossible task. However, this is Ponyville, where the impossible happens every day.
Twilight
OC
Georg · 4.2k words · 331 2 · 2.9k views
EAsylum
MLP: FiM
Drama
Mystery
Thriller
When Twilight Sparkle went to bed, she had friends she loved and a life she enjoyed. But she awoke to hospital gowns and padded restraints. And the doctors, they keep telling her that she is sick and none of it was real. They’re lying, right?
Twilight
Main 6
Daemon of Decay · 191k words · 4,912 121 · 75k views
ESugar, Cubed
MLP: FiM
Sad
Slice of Life
Twilight has loved math since she was a filly. Much to her surprise, Applejack has too.
Twilight
Applejack
Luna
OC
BlazzingInferno · 4.9k words · 466 5 · 4.8k views
EDitz and Spitz: Origin of Derpy
MLP: FiM
Sad
Derpy is happy with her life, until Spitfire stirs memories of the past they shared...
Rainbow Dash
Spitfire
Derpy
OC
Dinky Hooves
Poinger · 40k words · 412 4 · 6.8k views
TOn the Line
MLP: FiM
Adventure
Random
Sad
When Luna inhabits the dreams of a young filly in a coma, she takes it upon herself to save the child's life.
Celestia
Luna
OC
TheBigBob · 31k words · 450 5 · 5.9k views
ETeacher's Pet
MLP: FiM
Drama
Slice of Life
Fair or not, most classes have that one perfect student, that one little flower that the teacher can't help but adore. Cheerilee's class is no different.
Cheerilee
CMCs
Pascoite · 3.3k words · 537 7 · 6.8k views
TWho Will Guard The Dreamers
MLP: FiM
Sad
A follower of Princess Luna is driven by her loss to dare the impossible. She will visit the moon in the Dreaming, and bring back the Princess of the Night.
Luna
OC
Nightmare Moon
Georg · 4.8k words · 249 1 · 3.5k views
TUntangling the Knot
MLP: FiM
Romance
Adventure
Comedy
Sad
Slice of Life

Human
OC
Main 6
GentlemanJ · 21k words · 1,004 20 · 13k views
TAwakening
MLP: FiM
Adventure
Sad
Sci-Fi
Lumina embarks on a journey of exploration and self-discovery after crashing on an uncharted world.
Twilight
OC
solocitizen · 53k words · 1,028 21 · 10k views
EThe Art and Science of Letter Writing
MLP: FiM
Romance
Drama
Sad
Slice of Life
While on a work trip to help family in Appleloosa, Big Macintosh strikes up some correspondences with friends back home. These are the letters that crossed Twilight Sparkle's desk. Sometimes words don't mean what they say.
Twilight
Applejack
Big Mac
Pascoite · 11k words · 626 11 · 7.6k views
TFractured Sunlight
Equestria Girls
Romance
Drama
Slice of Life
As kids, Twilight and Sunset were best friends, but a tragic accident cut their friendship short. Years later, Twilight investigates the incidents at Canterlot High and comes face to face with what appears to be a literal ghost from her past.
Sex
Death
Sunset Shimmer
Sci-Twi
Main 7 (EqG)
Oroboro · 112k words · 2,573 72 · 30k views
TTimeless
MLP: FiM
Romance
Sad
Slice of Life
When Princess Luna returned, the thousand years of banishment was a blur. It was merciful, in a way. Everycreature she once knew was there one minute, and gone the next. One stallion wasn't so lucky.
Celestia
Luna
OC
Other
Bat Pony
RadBunny · 57k words · 686 13 · 10k views
EUntwisting the Knot
MLP: FiM
Drama
Sometimes, Dash feels a knot tightening in her chest. She can't seem to loosen it alone.
Rainbow Dash
Flashgen · 3.4k words · 346 4 · 4.6k views
EThe Three Whooves
MLP: FiM
Romance
Adventure
Lost in time, Doctor Whooves' family must rely on his past and future selves for help!
Crossover
Derpy
OC
Doctor Whooves
Other
Dinky Hooves
Paleo Prints · 37k words · 531 9 · 23k views

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