sky-half

Updated: May 4, 2025

Filled with amazement and terror by this apparition of a horseman in the sky-half believing himself the chosen scribe of some new apocalypse, the officer was overcome by the intensity of his emotions; his legs failed him and he fell. Almost at the same instant he heard a crashing sound in the trees a sound that died without an echo and all was still. The officer rose to his feet, trembling.

Ambrose Bierce - A Son of the Gods and A Horseman in the Sky