Expository Writing - An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge "An Occurance At Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce is about man who was tricked into being killed. It is said that before you die, your whole life flashes before your eyes. But for his man, it was not his life, but what could've happened instead of him dying. Peyton Farquhar was a part of a highly respected family from Alabama, as well as a slave …showed first 75 words of 834 total…

…showed last 75 words of 834 total…see his life did not flash before him, but a scene that could've happened if he had thought of it before. And what made it even special is that it all took place in less than a second, probably less than a millisecond. But in his thoughts it lasted half a day and throughout the night until the next morning. I think this story was a really good one, and couldn't mind reading it again.