An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce , (1890) This is the short story by American writer and Civil War veteran Ambrose Bierce. It has been unanimously sited as "... one of the most famous and influential stories in American literature". Bierce's story highlighted the idea of subjective time passing at the moment of death and popularized the fictional device of false narrative continuation . Bierce's literary device, or structure, is an early example of the stream of consciousness narrative mode. It continues to influence writers to this day. _____________ ♠︎_____________ An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce [ Setting: American Civil War, The South- Alabama, Sunrise] I A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below. The man’s hands were behind his back, the wrists bound with a cord. A rope closely encircled his neck. It was attached to a stout cro