The Simile Museum

Tag: K-Ming Chang

“We ate with our elbows and didn’t speak. We let our knives narrate. My mother caught crickets in the backyard and panfried them with sesame oil. Bent over the table, my father packed his stomach like a suitcase, folding pieces of pork in half before sealing them into his mouth.”

-K-Ming Chang

“Condense your want into a word, and water will emerge from your mouth like milk.”

-K-Ming Chang