The first thing I knew was the incredible shock of pain emanating from my nose. The second was how bizarre the sudden appearance was of a parabola of red dots on the pavement before me along with an increasingly large puddle of black-red goo. I involuntarily looked up and directly into a snarling maw comprising two rows of ragged, ugly-looking teeth. It was this gap-riddled mouth that held my main attention as I stared forward in shocked disbelief. It was wide open in that square-shaped look of maximum and terrifying extent. As I adjusted my gaze the owner’s eyes came into view, wide and bestial looking. It was only after I had registered these first impressions through my haze of outrage and pain that I started to take in other details such as the diminutive size of the person confronting me and her grey hair. My quivering consciousness also took in the bloodied umbrella by her side. All of these impressions took a maximum of five seconds before I was again reeling from a searing pain emanating from the top of my head.
THE COMING OF AGE
THE COMING OF AGE
THE COMING OF AGE
The first thing I knew was the incredible shock of pain emanating from my nose. The second was how bizarre the sudden appearance was of a parabola of red dots on the pavement before me along with an increasingly large puddle of black-red goo. I involuntarily looked up and directly into a snarling maw comprising two rows of ragged, ugly-looking teeth. It was this gap-riddled mouth that held my main attention as I stared forward in shocked disbelief. It was wide open in that square-shaped look of maximum and terrifying extent. As I adjusted my gaze the owner’s eyes came into view, wide and bestial looking. It was only after I had registered these first impressions through my haze of outrage and pain that I started to take in other details such as the diminutive size of the person confronting me and her grey hair. My quivering consciousness also took in the bloodied umbrella by her side. All of these impressions took a maximum of five seconds before I was again reeling from a searing pain emanating from the top of my head.