An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Ambrose Bierce
A Confederate planter stands on a railroad bridge with a rope around his neck, and then the rope breaks. Bierce's most famous story takes 20 minutes to read and has one of the great twist endings in fiction.
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