How many times do you pass ponies without seeing them? How many conversations have you heard without listening? How much sorrow have you passed blithely by, focussed only on your own, narrow world? Whatever your answer, there is one pony who sees it all.

It's late, the fire is lit, you've a steaming hot mug of tea... what better time to have a chat and set the world to rights, and maybe get something else out of it too?

Rated 'T' due to moderate innuendo .

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*EDIT* Hello, ponies! This was originally going to be a one-shot wonder, but I enjoyed writing it, so there you are. And although it says 'completed', that's only really because each chapter can be read alone. I'll probs always be adding more chapters!

She didn't mean to do it, honest! No really, she made her do it... whoever that is. If you were on the run, from something you didn't think was wrong, what would you do? Could you take it?

For all those ponies with no-one to love or be loved by, with nowhere to go and nothing to do, with no place to call home or companions to call on. For those who resent the attention the richer ponies receive, and for all those who feel alone at times. As autumn rolls on by and winter is just beginning to peep over the horizon, what are the thoughts of those less fortunate than the majority?

When a stranger moves to Ponyville, alone and friendless, he worries he'll never find someone to love. But within a few, short months he finds friends, kinship and the joys and fears that come with having a true love...

Everypony has heard of the Elements of Harmony. Since their defeat of Discord, you can't get away from them! But fewer, far fewer, are those who know of the Elements of Discord - the ultimate sources of his power and desire to create chaos, and which were forced to find a new host after his redemption...

If you could only lie still and had nothing to do but think, what would you think about? Discord has anger, Rarity has fashion, Twilight has philosophy in general... but what about Pinkie Pie? She seems chaotic and irrational, but is she really? What would she think about?

They say that acceptance is the final part of the grieving process. Acceptance that, hard as it may be to take, and difficult as it may be to understand, the pony you loved is gone. Gone to a place above fear, above pain, above the shadows of our world. This is not easy to accept. It is far easier to give in, to let oneself slide into the depths of despair and torment, achingly yearning for what might have been. But sometimes, with the right companions and a gentle word of encouragement, one can finally begin upon the long road to recovery.

Ah, Maud. So misunderstood. She tries her best, really she does, but somehow ponies never quite seem to like her. But she wasn't always like this. When she was young, before she grew up, before the accident...

This is the story of how a happy foalhood came to an abrupt end, and how one of Equestria's most singular characters came into being.

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*EDIT* This story was written before "Hearthbreakers", and thus can no longer be considered canon. So think of it as what could have been, rather than what was.