Short Story #172: The Fruitless Assignment by Ambrose Bierce
Title: The Fruitless Assignment
Author: Ambrose Bierce
Summary

Reflection
The silenced report is an interesting conclusion to this story given Bierce's own experience as a journalist and the idea that covering up a story is better than the truth. It was a shorter short story and I think much more could be done with it. However, the scene with the head and the people playing with it was done quite well.Short Story #172 out of 365
Rating: 3 (out of 5 stars)
Date Read: 6/16/2014
Source: The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce, compiled by Ernest Jerome Hopkins. Bison Books, 1984. The full works of Ambrose Bierce, including this story can be found here on Archive.org.
For a full listing of all the short stories in this series, check out the category 365 Short Stories a year.
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