This story's main character is shocked that he cannot recognize the constellations in the sky on his journey home, which culminates in this story's main character seeing a "blinding white light" and hearing "a stone sound like the shock of a cannon". A "grey-clad soldier" tr
This story's main character is shocked that he cannot recognize the constellations in the sky on his journey home, which culminates in this story's main character seeing a "blinding white light" and hearing "a stone sound like the shock of a cannon". A "grey-clad soldier" tricks the main character in this story to attempting to burn down a recently-repaired structure, but it was a trap which initiated the titular event. In the last line of this story main character's body "swung gently from side to side beneath the timbers", revealing that his escape from a Union patrol was imagined. Featuring main character Peyton Farquhar, for 10 points, name this short story by Ambrose Bierce.
This story's main character is shocked that he cannot recognize the constellations in the sky on his journey home, which culminates in this story's main character seeing a "blinding white light" and hearing "a stone sound like the shock of a cannon".
“An {Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge}”