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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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One Officer, One Man by Ambrose Bierce
Captain Graffenreid stood at the head of his company. The regiment was not engaged. It formed a part of the…
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One Of The Missing by Ambrose Bierce
Jerome Searing, a private soldier of General Sherman’s army, then confronting the enemy at and about Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia, turned…
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One Of Twins by Ambrose Bierce
A Letter found among the Papers of the late Mortimer Barr You ask me if in my experience as one…
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One Summer Night by Ambrose Bierce
One Summer Night (1893) is featured in our Gothic Literature Study Guide. The fact that Henry Armstrong was buried did…
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Parker Adderson, Philosopher by Ambrose Bierce
“Prisoner, what is your name?” “As I am to lose it at daylight to-morrow morning it is hardly worth while…
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Present at a Hanging by Ambrose Bierce
An old man named Daniel Baker, living near Lebanon, Iowa, was suspected by his neighbors of having murdered a peddler…
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Science to the Front by Ambrose Bierce
In connection with this subject of “mysterious disappearance” – of which every memory is stored with abundant example – it…
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