Literature
YMC: Thwap
Wham!
His head is pounding. Or his heart is. Yeah, it's his heart. Because his head is ringing, and he's not sure that a head can pound and ring at the same time.
He's scared. He's terrified. But he can't let them see that if they see he's scared, he'll just get it ten times worse.
Thwap!
Is 'thwap' even a sound? He doesn't know. It sounded like a thwap. How do you describe the sound of someone being slapped across the face, anyway? It's not a smack, like the comic books say. Not unless you're being slapped by a girl. And, as pathetic as he is right now, he is not getting beaten up by a girl.
No, he's being beaten by a gang.
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