
The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce
LitReading - Classic Short Stories
The Unexpected Movement of the Herbage
"I saw the wild oats near the place of the disturbance moving in the most inexplicable way. Nothing that I have ever seen had affected me so strangely as this unfamiliar and unaccountable phenomenon," he said. "It was a mere falsification of the law of aerial perspective, but it startled, almost terrified me." The coroner rose from his seat and stood beside the dead man. Lifting an edge of the sheet he pulled away, exposing the entire naked body entirely naked by candlelight.
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