by Kij Johnson
Look, I get it.I get that Ponies is a dark allegory about peer pressure, the loss of innocence, and the lengths people go to in order to belong. It's a touch heavy-handed, but I still enjoyed every horribly dark second of the story. The ending was so incredibly cruel. It was wonderful....but I got d...
Overhyped and overrated, in my opinion.Oh, I know this is the sort of story that some reviewers would love - there is plenty to analyse and write about, certainly, but there is not one story ever told that would please everybody who read it, and this story I did not like. But to be fair, I doubted I...
After reading this all I can say is was it really necessary to take THREE cookies? Greedy! No wonder bad things happened... Kidding! This is a really short short story, and really disturbing. Chock full of cruel girls that I imagine look just like Bratz dolls, massive amounts of product placement fo...
Anybody should read this. It's like taking a step back into your childhood and the cruel things you either did or had done to you. Conforming to fit in is clearly not what it's made out to be because once you give in to the peer pressure you're just the girl without a pony who doesn't belong. And ev...
This is a short-short story that's an allegory about popularity and fitting in and the brutality of little girls. This is the sort of short story they should have kids reading in elementary or middle school, instead of the dull crap we usually got in our middle school reading anthologies; I think it...
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