While accompanying the Sheriff on an important errand in the desert, Braeburn ponders over the Appleloosan way of life.

When Twilight is visited by a distraught Applejack, she is asked to decipher the significance of a package containing five apple cores. Surely, this is the mystery of a lifetime?

Yet another short random piece with no ostensible moral. There's a cookie to whomever gets the title's inspiration, though.

The crystal ponies have captured a trespassing diamond dog, but for Electra, there's more at stake here than simply wondering how best to treat an old pest in a new world...

Rarity and Sweetie Belle may be on to something for the upcoming Flutter Pony Festival in Canterlot, but events a long way away threaten to derail their plans.

Some monsters rampage through the streets, but others hide in the darker places within pony homes. For those ones, a pony needs the monster catchers, and Jitters the donkey and Steel the minotaur are the best in the business. Unfortunately, they've never met each other before, and they’ve both been summoned by an important pony to deal with a very tricky customer…

Honeysuckle is a flutter pony, one of many from the Sweet Apple Acres hive, and she is starving. The heat wave of a particularly bad summer has forced them to take their chances on the orchard’s dwindling apple supply, which holds the best food available for miles around. But dangers are always waiting for her outside the nest, and the young earth pony who runs the farm will not be pleased when his already meagre stockpile begins to shrink.

Lazuli is just another slave, one of many in the Crystal Empire. Her king keeps her fellow ponies safe from a dangerous foe, or so it seems. Yet, her treasonous thoughts refuse to lie, and there's only one other she can turn to for one last talk.

A brief snapshot of the young Pinkamena Diane Pie at work, and how she copes with her fate.