Ponies, Kij Johnson
Ponies, Kij Johnson
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Ponies
A Short Horror Story

Author: Kij Johnson, Theresa DeLucci

Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld

Unabridged: 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tor Nightfire

Published: 02/11/2020

Categories: Fiction, Horror


Synopsis

Winner of the Nebula Award for Short Story

"Ponies" is a short horror story by Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Kij Johnson, one of 35 entries in the audio anthology Come Join Us by the Fire.

If you want to be friends with The Other Girls, you're going to have to give something up; this is the way it's always been, as long as there have been Ponies.

Come Join Us by the Fire, edited by Theresa DeLucci, is an audio-only horror anthology of 35 short stories from Nightfire Books, a horror imprint of Tor Books. The collection showcases the breadth of talent writing in the horror genre today, with contributions from a wide range of bestselling genre luminaries including China Miéville, Chuck Wendig, Richard Kadrey, and Victor LaValle; Shirley Jackson Award winners Paul Tremblay, Priya Sharma, and Sam J. Miller; Nebula Award winners Brooke Bolander, Alyssa Wong, Kij Johnson; and many, many more.

About Kij Johnson

KIJ JOHNSON is an American fantasy writer noted for her adaptations of Japanese myths and folklore. Her Tor.com story "Ponies" won the 2011 Nebula Award for Best Short Story. Her story "Fox Magic" won the 1994 Theodore Sturgeon Award, her novel The Fox Woman won the Crawford Award for best debut fantasy novel, and her subsequent novel Fudoki was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award and was cited by Publishers Weekly as one of the best fantasy novels of its year. She is also an associate director of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas.


Reviews

Goodreads review by karen

in case you can't see how cool that cover is: this is a short story i read ages ago, but never reviewed, and the big gaping blank lack-of-review in a column of reviewed books was irritating me. so here we are. this is like the cute anime version of Cat's Eye. it is about peer pressure, mean adolescent......more