The Simile Museum

Tag: Karen Russell

“Uncle Sean was as blandly ugly as a big toenail.”

-Karen Russell

“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

“Kiwi and his father could sometimes meet at the intersection of their two angers, like neighbors drawing up to the barbed stars of a fence.”

-Karen Russell