Its oversize dimensions and hefty weight to its stainless steel cover with a digital clock, "My Pretty Pony" is an imposing book. In Stephen King’s short story, a boy meets with his grandfather, who gives him a pocket watch and describes the nature of time as a pretty pony with a wicked heart. According to the grandfather, time moves faster as life continues, slipping away as one grows older, like a pony that always runs away. Barbara Kruger’s accompanying imagery of massive color screenprints shows people on or being thrown from horses. Each print includes a smaller composition of a hand holding a stopwatch, with captions that together form the phrase “time ain’t got nothing to do with how fast you can count.” Kruger’s imagery and book design act as a physical and didactic manifestation of the grandfather’s warning, reminding the reader that time is passing even as they read King’s text.