Have you ever faced gunfire straight on?
The sounds. The explosions. It all has a simple effect…it blinds your senses. Yes, technically you can still see. But you are so overwhelmed that the nerves in your eye process what is happening in short bursts.
There’s signal and noise, but it all turns into a violent, colorful signal.
Time slows down. Slow enough for me to realize I was fooled...to realize this cowboy wasn’t a cow-boy.
That the voice wasn’t a man’s.
It was a familiar voice. A woman's voice.
And, now I was dead. I think.