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George Thurston by Ambrose Bierce
THREE INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A MANGeorge Thurston was a first lieutenant and aide-de-camp on the staff of Colonel…
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Haita The Shepherd by Ambrose Bierce
In the heart of Haita the illusions of youth had not been supplanted by those of age and experience. His…
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Jo. Dunfer. Done for. by Ambrose Bierce
I turned from it with indifference, and brushing away the leaves from the tablet of the dead pagan restored to…
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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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