“He felt the mystery of his own unconscious like a whale looming invisibly beneath a tiny swimmer. If he couldn’t search or retrieve or view his own past, then it wasn’t his. It was lost.”
-Jennifer Egan
The Simile Museum
April 3, 2022
“She came into his eyes sudden and permanent as a photograph.”
-Tracy O’Neill
March 18, 2022
“I trailed spiderwebs like finish-line ribbons as I walked between saplings.”
-Molly Dektar
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
The Simile Museum 