The Musket Ball – 3:AM Magazine (opens in new tab)

The musket ball. The museumgoer stares at it, a dull but once deadly sphere sitting stately and harmless in a glass case. A Rust Belt museum housed in a former Gilded Age tycoon’s manor. The exhibit is about instruments of war. The evolution of war. The musket ball. Its texture compelling. The surface of the moon, its myths and mysteries. The museumgoer stares. A short story by Kent Kosack.