“I trailed spiderwebs like finish-line ribbons as I walked between saplings.”
-Molly Dektar
The Simile Museum
February 13, 2022
“Reading about craft is like listening to yourself breathe.”
-Zadie Smith
January 31, 2022
“Uncle Sean was as blandly ugly as a big toenail.”
-Karen Russell
January 20, 2022
“…silent as a fig.”
-Gayl Jones
January 15, 2022
“She was as empty inside as a scooped-out melon.”
-C.J. Hauser
January 4, 2022
“By August, we are sluggish with love and slide two / barrettes into the night of my hair. Like twin fireflies. / Like rabbit feet dyed blue and downhearted, stamping the side of my head. July’s shadow is almost rot and we haven’t spoke in days.”
-Megan Fernandes
December 22, 2021
“The streets run steeply up and down, ad the streetcars travel back and forth like rooms ablaze with light.”
-Herta Müller
November 30, 2021
“By the time we reached the Saekdal Beach, the sun peeked over the horizon like a cracked eyelid. Rocks glistened, clenched like obsidian fists.”
-Silvia Park
November 22, 2021
“Everyone started to hunker down. They were busy with work, and some people had begun having families, too, so they stayed home with their kids on the weekend, which made sense. People evaporated, though only by about fifty percent: they still existed as texts and likes and shares. Like ghosts, showing up at a séance by way of knocking over your teacup.”
-Adrienne Celt
November 2, 2021
“Over time, many small infatuations rippled the surface of her mind, like the spring breeze that makes new leaves tremble without changing their life’s course.”
-Tove Ditlevsen
The Simile Museum 