The protagonist of the story is tricked by a man in gray who tells him about a quantity of driftwood which had been seen near the title object.
In the collection in which it originally appeared, it preceded a story about a six-year-old deaf mute who wanders out and upon returning home discovers that his house has been destroyed. It followed a story about Carter Druse, who shoots his own father in "A Horseman in the Sky." The protagonist of the story is tricked by a man in gray who tells him about a quantity of driftwood which had been seen near the title object. The second story in a collection of "tales of soldiers and civilians," In the Midst of Life, it is set in northern Alabama. FTP, name this story about the death of Peyton Farquhar, a work by Ambrose Bierce.
In the collection in which it originally appeared, it preceded a story about a six-year-old deaf mute who wanders out and upon returning home discovers that his house has been destroyed.
“An {Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge}”