title: My Pretty Pony
author:  Stephen King 
description: My Pretty Pony first appeared in 1988 as a deluxe limited edition in the Whitney Museum's Artists and Writers Series. This trade edition reproduces the original lithographs. 13.5x9", unpaginated (64 pp).
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  MY PRETTY PONY
  
  
  Stephen King
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The old man sat in the barn doorway in the smell of apples, rocking, wanting
  not to want to smoke not because of the doctor but because now his heart
  fluttered all the time. He watched that stupid son of a bitch Osgood do a fast
  count with his head against the tree and watched him turn and catch Clivey out
  and laugh, his mouth open wide enough so the old man could observe how his
  teeth were already rotting in his head and imagine how the kid’s breath would
  smell: like the back part of a wet cellar. Although the whelp couldn’t be more
  than eleven.
  
  
  The old man watched Osgood laugh his gaspy hee-hawing laugh. The boy laughed
  so hard he finally had to lean over and put his hands on his knees, so hard
  the others came out of their hiding places to see what it was, and when they
  saw, they laughed, too. They all stood around in the morning sun and laughed
  at his grandson and the old man forgot how much he wanted a smoke. What he
  wanted 