Pipsqueak and his friends engage in a little trivial colt talk, and an awkward subject is broached.

To say that Snails has always been a little different from most ponies would certainly not come as a surprise to most. But is it what's on the outside that marks him as different, or what goes on on the inside?

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A secret revealed tears apart Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon.
Can old enemies and rivals learn to forgive?
Will new friends fill the void left behind?
Will the Troublesome Twosome find a way to repair their bond, or will it be some other pony that will fill the holes in their hearts, with friendship, or even love?

Every class has its resident dunce. Sometimes more than one of them. We've all seen it before: the idiots who make a ruckus whenever they can, sometimes making everyone else laugh, sometimes just to make themselves look bad. Not that they seem to care either way.

When faced with such a bond, one could say it's just "stupidity seeking out its own." In a way, perhaps they're right. Friendship works in mysterious ways.

That said, when the newest group of foals are brought under Cheerilee's care, she gets to see one such duo form among them: a mouthy joker named Snips, and a slow rascal named Snails. Two troublemakers bound in mischief, with no sign of either of them wanting to grow out of it.

This is their story... or at least some of it.

(Entry for the EFNW 2015 Pre-Con Contest)

After an adult Snails inherits a fortune, Diamond Tiara finds herself in charge of making him presentable. Can she turn him into a gentlecolt to win the bet with Fleur, and will she find more than she bargained for?

Poor Diamond can never seem to catch a break from her parents. This holiday season, like so many others, will be one where she's left alone.

...Or so she thinks.

When a train ride for a school field trip turns boring, it's up to the Cutie Mark Crusaders to find a way to pass the time. All that changes when the train enters a tunnel, and each have differing views about what's on the other side.

It doesn't help that all of them have a completely wild imagination.

"Who do you like?"
Snails has been avoiding that one question for some time. What happens when it finally gets asked?

"Our lives improve only when we take chances ~ and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be Honest with ourselves." ~Walter Anderson

(A short and sweet Snails x Snips shipfic. Because it's way too obvious. >w>)

Cheerilee has decided to educate her class in the art of Theatre by having them put on a play about the Discord's defeat at the hooves of the Elements of Harmony. It goes about as well as one would expect.

"Cast in this unlikely role
Ill-equipped to act
With insufficient tact"

-- Rush, "Limelight"

In a world where nopony can tell a back left hoof from a front right hoof from a left front hoof from a right hook hoof step, there is only a hoofful of stallions with the rhythm and blues to jazz square the beat off the streets. Get ready to get down.