Because when birthdays no longer are a joyous occasion but some kind of achievement, who wouldn't worry about one's kin and who wouldn't wonder how they will be remembered? Because life is fleeting and death can take you in barely a breath, or in your sleep.

Written for the NALU Writing Competition.

Prompt: Sleep doesn't help if it's your soul that's tired.

This story got the first place in the Contest!

Winter has covered Canterlot with a blanket of white snow. It was the time families saw each other and enjoy each other's company, friends spent time together laughing and drinking hot beverages.

It was also the time Fluttershy choose to take a stroll in a park. Just her and her thoughts.

That's, obviously, until she meets someone she didn't quite expect, and the afternoon takes a turn she did not saw coming.

This is a little winter special for you all, hope you enjoy it!

Proof-read and edited by TheMareWhoSaysNi.

Starlight just wanted to ask Pinkie if she would go to Twilight's dinner the next day. Just that. She never wanted to go to Pinkie's room and discover the weirdest thing she has ever seen, and we are talking about Pinkie Pie. She just wanted a "yes" or a "no" and it would be fine.

But obviously, things don't always go as planned for Starlight.

A little something TheMareWhoSaysNi and I made as result of random chat, endless PMs and a lot of imagination as we tried to get to better terms with Starlight Glimmer as a main character in the past three seasons.

Hope you enjoy!

Rainbow Dash has been friends with Pinkie Pie for years. Best friends, actually. She knows her very well, and they've been together through a lot of hardships that only made their friendship strong —though kinda rocky in the beginning.

So, if she knows her so well, why suddenly she wonders where Pinkie's talent to make ponies happy comes from?

Dedicated to one of my dearest, most understanding friends, whose mails never fail to make me smile: TheMareWhoSaysNi. Thank you a lot for standing me and my silly rants

Translated to chinese by leejunxian98

Rainbow Rain, daughter of Rainbow Dash and Soarin Skies, finds herself in a tough spot when she realizes she can't show up at her presentation with her mane as she usually haves it.

However, Aunt Rarity is out of town, and her mother has never been actually good with manestyles. Rainbow Dash can handle simple ponytails and braids, but the complicated manestyle Rainy needs it's out of her league —like, totally!

Desesperate because the play's happening in an hour, Rainy finds the help she seeks in the last pony she expected it of: noneless than her father, Soarin Skies.

I had this idea going around my mind for a while now, and I thought it was cute. Hope you enjoy!

Sometimes, it takes just a minute for great things to happen. After all, we all have a minute left.

One day, after practice, Rainbow Dash will finally understand the wonders that giving somepony just a minute can create.

Edited by Chocolate Cherry. Thank you a lot!