Twilight Sparkle and Starlight Glimmer are evenly-matched. Every time Twilight tries to stop Starlight's plan, she fails. That means Starlight wins, right?
Sunset Shimmer is Princess Celestia's beloved student, and her daughter in all but name. But sometimes getting too close just makes it easier to get hurt.
On one of the last nice autumn days for his first fall in Ponyville, all Spike has to do is collect late fees and a lost book from a unresponsive library patron. A pony who isn't answering letters. A pony who might as well have never existed.
A dragon wanders into a land that banished him centuries ago. Never did he imagine he would return, but when the sun and moon failed to rise one fateful day, something compelled him to begin the journey home to the princess who shattered his heart.
One night, on Hearth's Warming, Diamond Tiara returned to her hometown of Ponyville. She'd hoped that some things might have changed. She didn't expect somepony to change so much.
Princess Celestia watches over a sleeping Twilight, thinking about her decision to allow one so precious to remain in a village so very far away from home; wondering if it were truly the right choice, and hoping it wasn’t.
In a world of snakes and ladders, Rarity has had to learn a single, simple fact: It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single mare who desires fame and success must, without a doubt, be a social-climbing bitch.
As she leaves for a diplomatic errand, Celestia is approached by her student, Sunset Shimmer, for a difficult, fateful discussion. Can she bridge the vast gulf that has grown between them?