A story describes a lynching by burning, where some of the lynchers are electrocuted when a pilot mistakes the burning pyre for a landing light and crashes his plane into it. Despite the plane crash, the lynchers still manage to complete their lynching. The narrator is left feeling terrible about the event as investigations begin into the fire from the plane crash.
Original Description:
My summary of the short story "A Party down at the Square."
A story describes a lynching by burning, where some of the lynchers are electrocuted when a pilot mistakes the burning pyre for a landing light and crashes his plane into it. Despite the plane crash, the lynchers still manage to complete their lynching. The narrator is left feeling terrible about the event as investigations begin into the fire from the plane crash.
A story describes a lynching by burning, where some of the lynchers are electrocuted when a pilot mistakes the burning pyre for a landing light and crashes his plane into it. Despite the plane crash, the lynchers still manage to complete their lynching. The narrator is left feeling terrible about the event as investigations begin into the fire from the plane crash.