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My Pretty Pony is a short story by Stephen King. Originally published in 1989 as an oversized, slipcased edition (with stainless steel faced boards and digital clock inset into front cover) commissioned for the Whitney Museum in New York as a coffee table book, it was later included in King's collection Nightmares and Dreamscapes.
[edit] Plot summary
An elderly man, his death rapidly approaching, takes his young grandson up onto a hill behind his house and gives the boy his pocketwatch. Then, standing among falling apple blossoms, the man also "gives instruction" on the nature of time: how when you grow up, it begins to move faster and faster, slipping away from you in great chunks if you don't hold tightly onto it. Time is a pretty pony, with a wicked heart.
Spoilers end here.
[edit] Trivia
In his note on the story in Nightmares and Dreamscapes, King says the piece was originally a flashback scene included in a full-length novel-in-progress in which the grandson was now a brutal hitman reflecting on his childhood. The novel was intended to be published under King's Richard Bachman pseudonym, but the author grew disenchanted with the work, and finally scrapped it entirely.
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Novels:
- Carrie (1974)
- ’Salem's Lot (1975)
- Rage (as Richard Bachman) (1977)
- The Shining (1977)
- The Stand (1978; revised edition, 1990)
- The Dead Zone (1979)
- The Long Walk (as Richard Bachman) (1979)
- Firestarter (1980)
- Cujo (1981)
- Roadwork (as Richard Bachman) (1981)
- The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger (1982; revised edition, 2003)
- The Running Man (as Richard Bachman) (1982)
- Christine (1983)
- Pet Sematary (1983)
- Cycle of the Werewolf (1983)
- The Talisman (1984, written with Peter Straub)
- Thinner (as Richard Bachman) (1984)
- It (1986)
- The Eyes of the Dragon (1987)
- Misery (1987)
- The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three (1987)
- The Tommyknockers (1988)
- The Dark Half (1989)
- Needful Things (1990)
- The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands (1991)
- Gerald's Game (1992)
- Dolores Claiborne (1993)
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- Insomnia (1994)
- Rose Madder (1995)
- The Green Mile (1996)
- Desperation (1996)
- The Regulators (as Richard Bachman) (1996)
- The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass (1997)
- Bag of Bones (1998)
- The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (1999)
- Dreamcatcher (2001)
- Black House (2001, written with Peter Straub)
- From a Buick 8 (2002)
- The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla (2003)
- The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah (2004)
- The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower (2004)
- The Colorado Kid (2005)
- Cell (2006)
- Lisey's Story (2006)
- Blaze (as Richard Bachman) (2007)
- Duma Key (2008)
Non-fiction:
- Danse Macabre (1981)
- Nightmares in the Sky (1988)
- On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (2000)
- Secret Windows: Essays and Fiction on the Craft of Writing (2000)
- Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season (2005, written with Stewart O'Nan)
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Short fiction:
- Night Shift (1978, collection)
- Different Seasons (1982, collection)
- Skeleton Crew (1985, collection)
- Dark Visions (with George R. R. Martin and Dan Simmons) (1988, collection)
- "Dolan's Cadillac" (1989, chapbook)
- "My Pretty Pony" (1989)
- Four Past Midnight (1990, collection)
- Nightmares & Dreamscapes (1993, collection)
- "Umney's Last Case" (1995, booklet)
- Six Stories (1997, limited edition collection)
- "The New Lieutenant's Rap" (1999, chapbook)
- Hearts in Atlantis (1999, collection)
- "Riding the Bullet" (2000, ebook)
- Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales (2002, collection)
Audiobooks:
- L.T.'s Theory of Pets
- Blood and Smoke (2000)
- Stationary Bike (2006)
Other:
- The Dark Tower series and comics
- The Bachman Books (novel collection) (1985)
- The Plant (2000)
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