Nurse Redheart has seen a lot of patients come and go through the Ponyville Hospital, but when an old and feeble stallion checks in there seems to be something different about him. He has a story to tell.
It's no grand adventure or yarn of fiction, merely a tale of his youth. However, Redheart finds something special even in the mundane life of Mr. Business.
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Very true. Thank you!
Nice simple story with a damn good message.
...I... Actually needed to hear this.
Thank you.
~Skeeter The Lurker
I like the simplicity. I admittedly expected some jabs at TCB because of that cover. Doesn't matter; great little story.
He's a wise stallion. :')
Workin' over time!
Ya know? I was kinda expecting Pony Elvis, but this was just as enjoyable. Thank ya, thank ya very much.
3762866 Yeah, the cover art is sort of Elvis' personal logo.
3762940 I know that. Also I take it you're a bit of an Elvis fan? Must be since I picked up another Elvis reference in the story. After all, Elvis got the idea for that logo from somewhere
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A story where one of the characters, aside from the Bearers of Harmony, notice that their cutie mark doesn't directly represent their name/profession?
GASP!
But, aside from the refreshing occurance, this is story that applies to many people. I just wish some of them would notice that they have to 'take care of Business' before others.
I feel that his story could be told in greentext format...
But in other news, this was a moving story that I really enjoyed reading. It had a great message and taught a great lesson.
Great stuff :3
Glad to see this finally get published. As noted while prereading, I really like the message of the story. It's a good lesson for everyone, even if (like me) they had no idea about that being Elvis's logo.
The tastiest dish is food for the soul. Nicely done!
Your choice of cover art caught my eye; “There are still straight Conversion Bureau fics being written? Wait, no, just an unfortunate choice of acronym.”
3765835 I actually went back and forth with Xepher on how many people I would hook with TCB. Maybe I should have added a disclaimer.
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Thankfully, it doesn’t appear to have been necessary so far — no knee‐jerk downvotes, AFAICT — but it’s anybody’s guess as to just how many people saw “TCB” and decided to go read something other than Takin’ Care of Business. If we had some way of running a double blind It’d be an interesting case study.
Very nice. Short and sweet, you might say. I was slightly concerned that this could be a case of "Hey, I've thought of a great title; better dash out a short story so I can show it off!" but I'm glad I stopped to read it. I could imagine Business as a background/side pony in the show (probably as a one-off, but still) quite easily.
Oh so this is what happened to Elvis.
The feels, i can feel them
Good job, great play on words
(Looks around-> looks like im late to the party)