An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
                                            
                            By Ambrose Bierce
                            
                                9 May, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        Ambrose Bierce’s haunting 1890 short story An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge has a modern twist ending that never gets old. The narrative concerns the final thoughts of a Southern planter as he is being hanged by Union soldiers. In the brief peri
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                                                Ambrose Bierce’s haunting 1890 short story An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge has a modern twist ending that never gets old. The narrative concerns the final thoughts of a Southern planter as he is being hanged by Union soldiers. In the brief period between the tightening of the noose and the actual breaking of his neck, something happens. The rope breaks and the man escapes. Or the man imagines he escapes. Which is it? Less