“The girl’s face was as tight and mean as broccoli.”
-Toni Morrison
The Simile Museum
Tag: Fiction
August 2, 2016
“Valerian Street was mindful of their criticism, but completely indifferent to it. His grey eyes drifted over the face of such guests like a four o’clock shadow on its way to twilight.”
-Toni Morrison
June 17, 2016
“All she’d ever say was, Let’s enjoy the time we have together, and then she’d cling to his body as if it were the mast of a sinking ship, like she’d lashed herself to him.”
-Matt Bell
June 1, 2016
“I felt limp and betrayed, like the skin shed by a terrible animal.”
-Sylvia Plath
March 21, 2016
“I felt as if someone had taken a vegetable peeler to my nerves.”
-T.C. Boyle
March 14, 2016
“I turned around to look at him again, but he was already in the postal truck, pulling out into the street, and all I could see was the back of his postal truck, square as a nun.”
-Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi
February 29, 2016
“The beautiful, glittering name fell out of the sky like a steel-blue feather. She watched it fall, turning and twisting like a slow-falling arrow that cleaves the deep air beautifully.”
-Virginia Woolf
February 10, 2016
“We stood there like mesmerized criminals who had forgotten to flee the scene.”
-Miranda July
December 1, 2015
“Four days stretched out like the creation of toffee.”
-Elizabeth George
November 24, 2015
“He has a face like a catcher’s mitt. The whole thing puckers inward, drooping with the memory of some dropped fly ball.”
-Karen Russell
The Simile Museum 