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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
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A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below. The man’s hands were behind his back, the wrists bound with a cord. A rope closely encircled his neck. It was attached to a stout cross-timber above his head and the slack fell to the level of his knees. Some loose boards laid upon the ties supporting the rails of the railway supplied a footing for him and his…
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- AuthorAmbrose Bierce
- SourceProject Gutenberg #375
- Length3,763 words · 15 min of reading
- Chapters3
- DictionaryIncluded
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-08-21
Contents
3 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION, 1988
- 02II
- 03III
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