Sometimes running a business can feel like cycling uphill with square wheels.

But zero online accounting software can help predict the future cash flow of your business.

So you can stay one step ahead.

Soon it'll feel more like free-wheeling downhill.

Woo-hoo!

On a tandem!

All right mate

with a masseur on the back.

Oh that's nice.

Search Zero with an ex because healthy business is beautiful business. The The Welcome to another episode from one thousand one classic short stories and tales.

Followers of our show know for a fact that many of the best stories come from men and women who lived the life that they wrote about.

For instance, Jack London was there in the Klondike for the Alaskan Gold Rush when he wrote

our archived episode to build a fire.

Brett Hart lived in the gold mining towns of California when he wrote,

The Luck of Roaring Camp

and Louisa May Alcott was working as a nurse in Washington, D.C. during the Civil War, which inspired her story, My Red Cap, also a part of our archives here at 1001 Classic Short Stories and Tales.

Ambrose Beers is another writer from that mold.

His life is a story in itself.

Now to Ambrose Beers.

Beers was born in the log cabin at Horse Cave Creek in Miggs County, Ohio, on June 24, 1842 to Marcus Aurelius Bierce and

Laura Sherwood Bierce.

His mother was a descendant of William Bradford, who we all remember was the pilgrim leader who brought the

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