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John Bartine’s Watch by Ambrose Bierce
A Story by a Physician‘The exact time? Good God! my friend, why do you insist? One would think — but…
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John Mortonson’s Funeral by Ambrose Bierce
John Mortonson was dead: his lines in ‘the tragedy “Man”‘ had all been spoken and he had left the stage.…
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Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General by Ambrose Bierce
Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General is a satirical tale published in Wasp in 1885. Ambrose Bierce uses a series of vignettes reported…
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Killed at Resaca by Ambrose Bierce
The best soldier of our staff was Lieutenant Herman Brayle, one of the two aides-de-camp. I don’t remember where the…
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Moxon’s Master by Ambrose Bierce
‘Are you serious? — do you really believe that a machine thinks?’ I got no immediate reply; Moxon was apparently…
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Music by Ambrose Bierce
C.E. Brock, The Humour of America, 1909WILD cat was listening with rapt approval to the melody of distant hounds tracking…
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My Favourite Murder by Ambrose Bierce
Having murdered my mother under circumstances of singular atrocity, I was arrested and put upon trial, which lasted seven years.…
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Oil of Dog by Ambrose Bierce
My name is Boffer Bings. I was born of honest parents in one of the humbler walks of life, my…
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On a Mountain by Ambrose Bierce
They say that the lumberman has looked upon the Cheat Mountain country and seen that it is good, and I…
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One Kind of Officer by Ambrose Bierce
IOF THE USES OF CIVILITY “Captain Ransome, it is not permitted to you to know anything. It is sufficient that…
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