With the sighting of a new species of owl near Ponyville, the town has caught ornithology fever and the only cure for the madness is Twilight Sparkle. Naturally, she never stood a chance.
The composer of Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker is dying. Tchaicoltsky is expected to go to his grave alone, until he gets an unexpected visit from a griffon that asks him out for a date.
Celestia "tough[s] out an obnoxious day on the throne while looking forward to a slice of cake." She's getting too old for this. (And Lyra gets un-backgrounded(!))
The Ponyville rumor mill attempts (badly) to make sense of terrible apocalyptic happenings; but Twilight (eventually) discovers what happened and tries to (hopefully) set things aright
Maud is a geology student with super strength. Trixie is a stage magician with a magical tome. Starlight is a demon trapped said magical tome. They fight crime. And they're girlfriends.
Trixie's had a bad string of luck with love lately. Starlight hopes this means she'll finally get a chance to be with her. She's wrong. So, so wrong. Because the one Trixie becomes enamored with? It's herself.
Sunset finds a letter in her locker from an anonymous writer. A writer she has forgotten about many times before. But some things aren’t so easily forgotten.
When the Goddess spoke to her, Celestia learned she was going to die. She also learned her true date of birth. Eleven years ago, seconds after a young filly named Rainbow Dash completed her first Sonic Rainboom.