The story starts out with a man named Peyton on a bridge getting ready to be hung. As the man is waiting for the other men to step off the board so that Peyton would fall and the rope would hang him Peyton went to a flasback about what he was doing when he had gotten started in this whole mess. It happened when a solider came to their place and asked for a drink of water and Peyton started talking to the young man. Later in the story Peyton flashes back to being with his wife. One minute he is running to his wife the next he as a sharp pain in his neck. He was actually being hung and at the end they say he is swinging back and forth on the bridge dead.

Tierney McKeehan