“Her hands are neatly folded, like two birds, in the shallow dip of her lap.”
-Julie Otsuka
The Simile Museum
Tag: Fiction
July 6, 2022
“Hazel’s mom has a cloud of pale hair that she burns dry every morning. Whenever Hazel meets her focus, her frown springs into a grin. The grin is toothy and tight, like a sad shark that smiles only because of its anatomy.”
-Lydia Conklin
June 8, 2022
“When I woke, my joints had tightened like screws.”
-Tessa Yang
May 1, 2022
“Patches of overgrown grass resembled a comb-over on the head of a bald person who didn’t want to see reality.”
-Elif Batuman
April 14, 2022
“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
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
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
The Simile Museum 