Flat nose

That's where it is right now. The start where the ball comes quick towards your face and you just know you're not going to get your hands in the way in time, and you're going to get hit right on the nose.

And time does not fucking slow down; it's not a series of snapshots that punctuate moments before your eyes.

No, it's quick: you see it; it hits you; there is an explosion of blood and snot.

You don't quite realise your nose is now on backwards for a few moments (moments you will recapture later when trying to remember things that don't involve hot blood and snot).

For a moment, you have a third person perspective without pain; you can see, in three quarter profile, how you are reacting to this high speed, ball-based accident in your face incident.

Then the pain brings you back behind your eyes. There's only really one kind of exclamation for this kind of time and it'll be similar to - "Fuck! Shit! That fucking hurts!"