The Sniper by Liam O’Flaherty creates a series of fast, slow and rapid paces. The author shows rapid timing with suspense. As war in Dublin takes place a sniper is shooting at the supposed enemy and once the enemy is killed the sniper has thoughts of who he killed and he soon finds out is wasn’t the enemy who was shot but it was his brother. The sniper uses fast timing. In the story it said “There was a flash and a bullet whizzed over his head. He dropped immediately.” this is explaining fast timing because it talks about how he moved immediately to get out of the way so that he did not get hit with the bullet. The bullet was shot at him for lighting a match to smoke a cigarette. This is fast timing because the author tells you the bullet