“The texts we write are not visible until they are written. Like a creature coaxed from out a dark wood, the text reveals itself ‘little by little.'”
-Rikki Ducornet
The Simile Museum
January 4, 2015
“It appeared this place had undergone a transformation. What kind of plants were they? They looked like climbing vines, with huge, egg-shaped leaves creeping along the silt like innumerable small beasts.”
– Can Xue
January 1, 2015
“He lost more weight; he lost more weight, his skin turned gray, sagged like old sail from a shipwreck of bone.”
– Craig Bernardini
December 23, 2014
“Long fingers arched like grapple hooks.”
-William Carlos Williams
December 20, 2014
“A photo of Azócar at the time shows a grim, dark-eyed girl with a bow atop her head, like a pile of rocks into which a half-deflated zeppelin has crashed.”
-Emily Witt
December 17, 2014
“An unsettled feeling keeps the body front and center. The wrong words enter your day like a bad egg in your mouth.”
-Claudia Rankine
December 12, 2014
“I looked at her blankly, although the truth, like a lone and flagging swimmer, was gradually making some headway in the black sea of my ignorance.
-Roberto Bolaño
December 6, 2014
“And the lake always laps at the shore so gently,
licking the hand you dip into it like a young dog.”
-Jenny Erpenbeck
December 1, 2014
“Standard, like the salmonella in a poorly cooked chicken sandwich.”
– Hamilton Nolan
November 24, 2014
“He told me I was the sign he’d been waiting for and,
like looking into a crystal ball, he’d just read a private message from God
in the silvery vortex of my left pupil.”
-Ottessa Moshfegh
The Simile Museum 