In the canon
Tales of Soldiers and Civilians
- Form
- Form Short Story Collection
- Year
- Year 1891
- Pages
- Pages 250
The rope is already around his neck. Bierce sets a man on the ties of Owl Creek Bridge, hands bound behind him, and then lets a few seconds swell untill an entire life of longing pours through them.
A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below.
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