{"_id":"62b291e61e606fdd69c8724d","title":"The Battle of Washington Square","rating":4,"author":"Richard Connell","code":"the-battle-of-washington-square","words":6455,"image":"usa.jpg","image_alt":"A U.S. flag flying on a flagpole. Graphite filter.","publish_year":1923,"publish_source":"The Saturday Evening Post","publish_edition":"Vol. 195, Iss. 50","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/sim_saturday-evening-post_1923-06-09_195_50/page/12/mode/2up","genres":["quirky","war","tragedy"],"blurb":"In his dreams he, single-handed, held the breach against a prodigious number of the enemy. They charged upon him, but he, though bleeding from a dozen wounds, did not retreat. He held them back; with rifle, bombs, bayonet, even fists, he hurled them back until he was ringed round by piles of the slain.","description":"A young, vagrant man is drafted and finds that everyone begins to treat him with much more respect, causing him to yearn to be sent to combat and prove himself.","unique_cover":"Drawing of a man with a bayonet near a marching band and police reaching to grab him.","cover_source":true,"has_review":false,"has_collections":[{"code":"quirky","title":"Best of Quirky","collection_type":"genre"}]}