Story about the lifetime that occurs between a bullet being fired and execution
I'm trying to think of the short story about a condemned prisoner that experiences a lifetime between the time a bullet is fired and the time it ends his life.
I feel like the story might be Russian? Or maybe Borges?
Thanks for any help finding this story!
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I'm trying to think of the short story about a condemned prisoner that experiences a lifetime between the time a bullet is fired and the time it ends his life.
I feel like the story might be Russian? Or maybe Borges?
Thanks for any help finding this story!
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It's not a prisoner that experiences a lifetime between the start and finish of being hanged, is it? If so, it's Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.
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4 hours ago
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I'm trying to think of the short story about a condemned prisoner that experiences a lifetime between the time a bullet is fired and the time it ends his life.
I feel like the story might be Russian? Or maybe Borges?
Thanks for any help finding this story!
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I'm trying to think of the short story about a condemned prisoner that experiences a lifetime between the time a bullet is fired and the time it ends his life.
I feel like the story might be Russian? Or maybe Borges?
Thanks for any help finding this story!
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It's not a prisoner that experiences a lifetime between the start and finish of being hanged, is it? If so, it's Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.
– Organic Marble
4 hours ago
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It's not a prisoner that experiences a lifetime between the start and finish of being hanged, is it? If so, it's Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.
– Organic Marble
4 hours ago
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It's not a prisoner that experiences a lifetime between the start and finish of being hanged, is it? If so, it's Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.
– Organic Marble
4 hours ago
It's not a prisoner that experiences a lifetime between the start and finish of being hanged, is it? If so, it's Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.
– Organic Marble
4 hours ago
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Certainly you think of Borges' story El milagro secreto (The Secret Miracle). As the synopsis from ISFDB says,
"Jaromir Hladik, a Czechoslovakian writer, confronts a German firing squad. He prays to God for a full year in order to complete his play. A tear starts from his eye. In the time that the tear falls, he mentally finishes, without hurry, revising as he writes, his play. When the tear finishes its fall, at that moment, he is shot to death by the firing squad."
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Certainly you think of Borges' story El milagro secreto (The Secret Miracle). As the synopsis from ISFDB says,
"Jaromir Hladik, a Czechoslovakian writer, confronts a German firing squad. He prays to God for a full year in order to complete his play. A tear starts from his eye. In the time that the tear falls, he mentally finishes, without hurry, revising as he writes, his play. When the tear finishes its fall, at that moment, he is shot to death by the firing squad."
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Certainly you think of Borges' story El milagro secreto (The Secret Miracle). As the synopsis from ISFDB says,
"Jaromir Hladik, a Czechoslovakian writer, confronts a German firing squad. He prays to God for a full year in order to complete his play. A tear starts from his eye. In the time that the tear falls, he mentally finishes, without hurry, revising as he writes, his play. When the tear finishes its fall, at that moment, he is shot to death by the firing squad."
answered 58 mins ago
Dragan Milosevic
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Certainly you think of Borges' story El milagro secreto (The Secret Miracle). As the synopsis from ISFDB says,
"Jaromir Hladik, a Czechoslovakian writer, confronts a German firing squad. He prays to God for a full year in order to complete his play. A tear starts from his eye. In the time that the tear falls, he mentally finishes, without hurry, revising as he writes, his play. When the tear finishes its fall, at that moment, he is shot to death by the firing squad."
answered 58 mins ago
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Certainly you think of Borges' story El milagro secreto (The Secret Miracle). As the synopsis from ISFDB says,
"Jaromir Hladik, a Czechoslovakian writer, confronts a German firing squad. He prays to God for a full year in order to complete his play. A tear starts from his eye. In the time that the tear falls, he mentally finishes, without hurry, revising as he writes, his play. When the tear finishes its fall, at that moment, he is shot to death by the firing squad."
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It's not a prisoner that experiences a lifetime between the start and finish of being hanged, is it? If so, it's Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.
– Organic Marble
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