Teaser Tuesday -- Dec. 29

This week's Tuesday teaser, again from a page picked by a random number generator, is from "Miss Wyoming" by Doug Coupland, page 173:

"Blood dripping from a gash in his cheekbone, John ran away, down the road, into flat landscape, nothing on either side, finally far enough away to feel safe. He scuttled off the road, into a patch of desert, found a rut, crept into it, heard small animals scurry away, and then once more slept."