/tags/samples/Recent content in Samples on Gromet's Plaza ArchiveHugoen-us/stories/1/01/01/the-perfect-pony/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000/stories/1/01/01/the-perfect-pony/<p>This story is a sequel to <a href="parade.html">The Parade</a></p> <p><strong>Part 1</strong></p> <p>His lungs burned as he tried to keep the pace. His legs strained with every stride he took. Everything ached as he ran down the road. “Keep up, don’t quit now.” he thought “It’s just a few yards away.”</p> <p>The sting of the whip against his asscheek broke his thoughts. He lurched forward faster. Kenneth was pushing him even harder than usual. It wasn’t enough that he was pulling both the cart and Kenneth. He was made to run faster and faster and carry the load up and down hills. For Rainbow, each training day was like another. Drills and more drills. Sunrise to sunset and then some. If it wasn’t Kenneth, it was either Jimmy or the stablehand Dusty who would conduct the training. Both of them were just as harsh and just as quick to punish failure.</p>