By Ambrose Bierce
Published: 1897
Episode: The Long Con
Reference: One of the books Locke shakes when he is alphebetising the hatch books.
Outline: Set during the American Civil War, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is the story of Peyton Farquhar, a Confederate sympathizer sentenced to death by hanging at the Owl Creek Bridge of the title. His crime was that he attempted to burn that same bridge down before Union soldiers got a chance to cross it.When he is hanged the rope breaks and the main character falls into the water, from which he begins a journey back to his home. .
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