THIS IS A STORY

by _NAME_

Story the Forty-First

The stallion heard a knock from his front door.

He looked up from the magazine he had been reading, and folded back the corner of the page he was on so he could find it again later, and set it down.

As he was standing up, there was another, rather impatient sounding knock, so he hurried over to the door and, after unlocking it, opened it.

Outside was his mailmare and a moderately heavy-looking box sitting beside her, a package the stallion had been expecting.

With a smile, the stallion greeted her, only to receive no response other than a blank stare from the mare, and a clipboard shoved in his face.

He took the clipboard and the attached pen, and upon getting no other input from the mare, signed for the package at the bottom of the paper and handed the clipboard back.

The mare gave an emotionless grunt of thanks, or at least that was what the stallion thought, and turned away, leaving the package, and continued on her route.

And with that, the stallion carried his package inside his house, opened it, and went about using the contents inside.

Author's Note:

[This story suggested by Neon Beat.]

Comments

[Dark Avenger]

5241417

It doesn't matter. Every stallion is a different character and none of the stories relate to each other. I just write a story and give it a number 1-50 that hasn't already been taken.

Whaaaaaaaat? No way!

I always thought it was the same guy the whole time (minus a few exceptions, although those I regarded as "alter egos" or whatever you want to call it, but in essence the same character). The whole atmosphere that I love so much just doesn't have the same punch without that aspect...

[_NAME_]

5329413

You an believe that. Seems I'm disappointing a lot of people by having said that. That's just my own opinion, and it could very much be like you said.

I do actually like that idea though, but when I started this, that wasn't the plan. I may go back and change that, so it would actually made sense if you read it in order, and then continue on from there.

This is a story about a stallion.

But it is not one story about one singular stallion.

It is many.

[Dark Avenger]

5329457

The "reading in order" bit didn't bother me at all. In fact, the jumbled-up structure works better if you ask me. The main thing that I meant was the whole "snippets from someone's life" thing, combined with an odd kind of suspense where you keep expecting something extraordinary to happen, but it never does. All this revolving around the same character was just a nice extra touch, or, as it turns out, it would have been. It adds to the "monotony" of the fic, so to speak (and I mean that in a good way.)

This is a story about a stallion.

But it is not one story about one singular stallion.

It is many.

I honestly don't remember this being in the (original) description.

[_NAME_]

5329484

I'll write a story where the stallion is disappointed by something.

[Lord Destrustor]

5329457
That's pretty much how I was seeing it since the beginning.
The numbers are scrambled without any order, making them lose any connection they could have; and the chapters are called "stories".
I didn't expect to have dozens of unrelated stories star the exact same character, especially when said stories sometimes mention the mutually-exclusive presence or absence of certain features of the character. (wings one day, a horn the next, the specific mention of having neither some other time...)

[_NAME_]

5342723

And even if you were to read them in numerical order, in the first story, the stallion wakes up sometime during the night and then goes back to sleep, in the second, he comes home from work in the middle of a terrible storm, in the third, he's homeless on the streets during winter, in the fourth , he's woken up sometime during the night, coughing, drinks some water, and goes back to sleep, and in the fifth story, he wakes up late for work, runs there, and manages to get in without anyone noticing he was late. There's not much connection between any of those, except for the themes of waking up, but that has nothing to do with anything.