Grotesque | Tyler Cook

He was a slender man with slumping narrow shoulders. There was almost a perfect arch sloping down from the top of his shiney forehead to the tip of his sharp, beaklike nose. His slicked back hair was the color of dirty water, beside that it was thinning. Hands stuffed inside the pockets of his worn leather jacket, he walked around the electronics section at Walmart. He was very vulture-like in appearance, and probably hadn’t eaten in a couple of days. The left side of his face was gone and the skin around his yellow skull was like rawhide. There was some meat around his eye and cheek, but the flesh around his brow, jaw, and ear was gone. I didn’t know people could walk around like that.