Friendships don't always last, time isn't always well-spent, and not everyone gets a happy ending. Everypony has their regrets, paths not taken, failures and lost loves. Sometimes, it's too late for second chances.

Takes place in Rainbowdoubledash's Lunaverse. It's time for Winter Wrap Up in Ponyville, and Representative Trixie has to take part. She wishes she could have stayed in bed.

Mayor Mare has been living in Ponyville for quite some time. Not as long as she'd have you believe, mind you, but a long time all the same. During this period, she had dreams and aspirations, and as far as she's concerned, she accomplished each and every one. But what do you do when you've already achieved all of your goals?

Well, she was pretty lonely. And although she obtained the exact career path she wanted for many moons, she had much less luck with the stallions in her life.

She never would have imagined that the solution would come in the form of a human, or what that solution would eventually lead to. The result is quite unorthodox.

A story of loss and reunion for Hearth’s Warming.

One stormy night, Rainbow is on weather watch and tries to tackle a twister that is too strong for her, crashing miles from anywhere and unable to fly.
She is posted Missing In Action and her friends and family believe her to be dead, but a grumpy old hermit comes to her rescue.

Happy Hearth's Warming everypony.

After being fired from Ponyville General Hospital and searching for a new line of work. Nurse Redheart gets a job working for Mayor Mare in the town hall. Turns out making a volitile ex-nurse deal with complaints and appointments all day long isn't the best idea. Now with a sequel!

Rated T for Redheart rage.

Have you met Shutterfly?

No, not Fluttershy. One's a pegasus mare with a yellow coat and pink mane whose talent is communication with animals, and the other is a pegasus mare with a pink coat and yellow mane who can print pictures on pretty much any solid surface. There's no way any reasonable pony would get the two confused, not when Shutterfly just opened up her print shop today, introducing herself to the town through a group of Special Limited-Time Offers!

That's right. She just got into town today. And she'll be leaving tonight.

Because Shutterfly's skill is for printing pictures on things. But her talent is for being really, really annoying...

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Rated MC for MetaCrack

Cheerilee has been a teacher in Ponyville for many years. Her hoof in bringing up foals, watching them blossom into fine young mares and stallions, it gives her a sense of fulfilment that one only gets from living up to their life's purpose. Lately, it's been harder and harder to do her job with a smile. She's always seen a part of teaching as protecting her students as much as it is about educating them, and factors outside of her control have made it nearly impossible to protect anypony.

One day, a fire is awakened inside the schoolmare, and, filled with a new purpose, she sets out on a path to teach a few certain ponies a lesson they'll never forget.

This story maybe be rated Teen for violence and language, but Cheerilee's hooves are for E for Everypony.

This entire story was based on this conversation.

I think I need to be clear that I don't support doing sick wrestling moves on children. I figure it was clear in the story itself that that's not the point, but I'll say it here, too. Don't do that, ever. Unless...

Nah, I'm playing, I don't.

Unless...

No no, I'm joking, it's all jokes.

Unless...

All the mayors in Equestria have insane amounts of paperwork. To lessen their paperwork, they decided to make lists of things ponies can't do. This is the tale of what happened when they started making those lists.

This story is a sort of sequel to Ssendam the Masked's Fifty things ponies can't do, which is an excellent story that you should go read. Seriously, go read it.

Twilight's got it all - a title, a job, her own castle in Ponyville. She especially likes the castle part. It makes her feel like a real princess.

The local council, however, would rather it weren't there.

If there's a holiday, then somepony's probably overdecorated for it. The Greening has seen entire homes blend into the local grass, while Lambvent shrouds neighborhoods in wool and Hearth's Warming traditionally welcomes guests into homes through making it impossible to see where the front door is. But if Ponyville's going to get dressed up anyway, then Town Hall might as well have a little contest built around it. The mayor signed off on that.

Which meant there was a period of at least two seconds in which Marigold Mare completely forgot her town hosts the Bearers -- and that she'd just given them a reason to compete against each other.

Shall we count down to the inevitable one home visit at a time? In six, five, four, three...

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Rated C for they don't celebrate Christmas Crackfic.