The town of Hollow Shades had been abandoned for a long, long time. With the recent defeat of the Pony of Shadows, Moondancer takes an interest in the place and manages to get Celestia to sponsor a trip there for her to try and acquire what's left of Hollow Shades' history.
Upon arrival, Moondancer thinks she's hit the jackpot early, and begins researching what she can from the scrolls and books left behind. Unfortunately, there's a sound on the wind, and she starts hearing things. Then, she starts seeing things.
Hollow Shades isn't abandoned, just filled with things that aren't ponies.

Rara never realized that changing her image meant a whole new road of troubles. With the backlash of fans and mountains of hate it becomes harder to remain focused on her original goal. She slowly realizes that change isn't so easy. Will she be able to find that light in the darkness that is the path she's chosen? Based on my parody called "My Time" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOVtiRkw_Ys

When a young man, stricken by the terrible, black web of depression, tries to do the ultimate deed, the ponies of his favorite television show are doing whatever they can to save him from himself. Will it be enough?

Warning!
This story contains graphic scenes of pure emotion and depression, and may be confronting to read. Also, this story may or may not contain a lonely, tragic, and horrible death.

Thanks to Caroline Cottrell for prereading and editing. I am so grateful that I can always trust you with my darkest thoughts.

Rarity is in full creative flow designing her new season’s portfolio when a visitor arrives at Carousel Boutique.

Dr Stable has not come on a social call, moreover he has to break some frightening news that will turn the beautiful fashionista's world upside down.

“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster . . . when you gaze long into the abyss the abyss also gazes into you” -Friedrich Nietzsche

Abacus Cinch, once the principal of Crystal Prep Academy, now is the assistant of Principal Cadence. After her downfall, she has a crisis of conscious as memories of her past bubble to the surface once more. When witnesses a student in a bind, it'll become the catalyst that will put her on the path to rediscover what she once was...

...as painful as the memory will be.

Author's Note: I wrote this as a way of giving Cinch more of a backstory than she had in the 3rd EqG movie. I saw her as someone who was once the opposite of how she was depicted as and give a reason as to why it came to be. Though there's the OC tag, the story is mainly Cinch's tale.

Contains: Blood, Suicide, Death, and some coarse language here and there.

Chrysalis wasn't always evil. She had a heart of gold once. She used to be an angel, a meek child, until her mother changed that. Her mother ripped out her heart and made her a monster. She explains all this to her daughter Cocoona.

During Luna's banishment on the moon, she constantly fights the Nightmare for control. All she wants is to return home to her sister after the already long time of 687 years. Will she be the one to win and return home to her sister, or will the Nightmare break free and take control back from Luna?

It started off simply enough, Applejack's embarrassing childhood nickname. Everyone had one, Sunset's was Little Firestarter. The group ignored it, even when students take it a step forward and start teasing the farmer about it.

However the next day, after a sleepover at Rarity's involved all of them dressing up in silly costumes the fashionista had made, things got worse. Those pictures were posted online, and the poster, Anon-A-Miss, also left derogatory comments.

Those pictures came from Sunset's phone, but she doesn't remember posting them. What's going on?

Sombra, Prince of the Crystal Empire and the adoptive son of Queen Amore, returns home after a long and hard fought war against the ancient Black Dragons and is eager to continue the budding romance that has started to flower between him and the radiant Princess Celestia of the southern kingdom of Equestria.

However, when he returns home he is swept up by a prophecy given to him by the Crystal Heart. A prophecy that foretells the doom of all he loves at the hooves of the Umbra. And so Sombra sets off once more into the wastes to confront this foe, determined to save his Empire and the mare he loves before it's too late.

Little does he know, he's playing right into fate's hooves.

When Celestia and Luna tell Twilight that being an alicorn comes with challenges and trials, and that she needs to control herself and her magic, they refer her to an old book on meditation. Twilight is skeptical at first, but she reads it anyway.
When she gets into it she finds that the book is not filled with sensible, helpful tips on meditation at all, but the message inside gets into her head. Eventually she starts having visions, and one vision in particular will not leave her mind until she brings it into the real world. The consequences change her views of Ponyville - and her duty to it - completely.