Why doesn't Princess Celestia tell everypony in Equestria how ascension really works? After all, it isn't like knowing could hurt anypony, right?

Parasprites are coming, and Trixie needs Pinkie's help to stop them.

Coco Pommel, now free from Suri's influence, decides to right what she did wrong by not only saving Babs Seed from a terrible fate, but taking her in as her own adoptive filly. Maternal sweetness spiced with Bridleway melodrama.

Book I. A unicorn, alone and friendless, has drifted on through life, unnoticed by all. He thinks little of himself, sees himself as nothing and hides a special power. Can the Mane Six change the way he sees things?

Faced with Nightmare Moon's approaching return, Twilight, Tempest, and their classmates need help from an expert... a pony named Moondancer. But it's the last thing Moondancer wants to talk about...

Pinkie Pie loses her friends one by one as they move away, as she fights against her depression.

Twilight has an interesting conversation with Sparkler when she finds her sitting on a park bench all by herself, looking very depressed. To Twilight's dismay, SHE'S the reason Sparkler is so upset.

With his crush on Rarity going the way of the dodo, Spike begins to wonder just what it means to be a man.

In the winter snow, a lost foal cries.

Time... It truly does fly. You don't realize you're out of it until the clock's about to ring.