Literature
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The Story of a Conscience by Ambrose Bierce
In this Civil War story a Confederate spy, Dramer Brune, is captured behind enemy lines with a forged pass. Anyone…
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The Stranger by Ambrose Bierce
A man stepped out of the darkness into the little illuminated circle about our failing camp-fire and seated himself upon…
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The Suitable Surroundings by Ambrose Bierce
THE NIGHTOne midsummer night a farmer’s boy living about ten miles from the city of Cincinnati was following a bridle…
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The Thing at Nolan by Ambrose Bierce
To the south of where the road between Leesville and Hardy, in the State of Missouri, crosses the east fork…
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Three and One are One by Ambrose Bierce
In the year 1861 Barr Lassiter, a young man of twenty-two, lived with his parents and an elder sister near…
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Two Military Executions by Ambrose Bierce
In the spring of the year 1862 General Buell’s big army lay in camp, licking itself into shape for the…
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What I Saw of Shiloh by Ambrose Bierce
I This is a simple story of a battle; such a tale as may be told by a soldier who…
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What Occurred at Franklin by Ambrose Bierce
For several days, in snow and rain, General Schofield’s little army had crouched in its hastily constructed defenses at Columbia,…
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God Bless America by Irving Berlin
God Bless America was first published in 1918, then revised with new lyrics as a “peace song” with the rise…
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The Looking-Glass by J.D. Beresford
The Looking-Glass was first published in The Cornhill Magazine in 1921. It was featured in The Best British Short Stories…
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