Brain cancer.
It slowly eats you from the inside out, taking your mind hostage as it takes out your physical abilities one by one.
AppleBloom doesn't know why her big sister is in the hospital.
But she's determined to save her.

This story is a sequel to Grading is degrading

After a well deserved rest, Cheerilee is ready to finish grading the class reports. All she hopes for is some well written, normal pieces of writing.

What shes going to find is about five cups of coffee and a headache.

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Made popular on October 23! Thanks for reading!

Its that time of the week again! Grading night! The night that Cheerilee could be spending watching chick flicks with a bag of popcorn, but her job says otherwise. Its not that she doesn't like grading night-

But it can get a little...
Degrading.

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When you have a reputation to be a liar, it isn't easy to win back the trust of others.

Especially when "Others" means the element of honesty.

Resisting the temptation to lie again and sell another product hoax, the Flim Flam brothers decide to go back to Ponyville and make a fair living on the Apple family's farm. And while gaining trust from the ones you've tricked is hard, it just might be worth it.

Tired of being pestered by Octavia about passing her college finals, Vinyl decides to tell everyone what she thinks in the best way possible.

Cold. Snowy. A blanket that didn't deserve the title, seeing that it gave off absolutely no warmth. That's the condition I found her in. She would have stayed that way too. I keep telling them, it was fate.

Fate...

You consider yourself the luckiest pony in the world to have a best friend like you have, especially when your best friend is a princess. But when Celestia invites you over to have some tea and catch up on studies, her little sister answers the door. And she just looks so cute, so innocent...

That's it. You HAVE to have her, even if that means breaking the law.

Aloe and Lotus are devastated. They aren't bringing in enough money to keep the spa open, and when one of their most faithful customers comes over, they must tell her that the spa is to be closed. And she's not taking it. She must have her makeovers, no matter what the cost.

Twilight wakes up one morning, only to find herself in a horrible place- a white room. Icolated from her friends, the outside world, and all simple rules of goodness, logic, and order, Twilight is determined not to go totally insane.

And she won't.

Probably.

When an ancient curse is released, two unlikely allies must find a way to find it- and stop it- before all of Equestria is blinded by greed.