“She was as empty inside as a scooped-out melon.”
-C.J. Hauser
The Simile Museum
Tag: Novel
December 22, 2021
“The streets run steeply up and down, ad the streetcars travel back and forth like rooms ablaze with light.”
-Herta Müller
November 22, 2021
“Everyone started to hunker down. They were busy with work, and some people had begun having families, too, so they stayed home with their kids on the weekend, which made sense. People evaporated, though only by about fifty percent: they still existed as texts and likes and shares. Like ghosts, showing up at a séance by way of knocking over your teacup.”
-Adrienne Celt
October 5, 2021
“Grief rattles about your mind like a loose pebble in a shoe.”
-Caleb Azumah Nelson
August 31, 2021
“Nora’s voice was annoyingly like Alison’s, precise and concerned, careful, like the handwriting on a get-well card.”
-Alexandra Kleeman
August 10, 2021
“Aleq sat with him, but Malik didn’t seem to see him. Food appeared on his lap and then was taken away. Aleq reminded him of the way, on bad-weather days, they used to tell each other that if they closed their eyes and opened them again, the sun would be back out.
Finally Malik moved his arms and opened his eyes. His head swayed like they were on a boat.”
-Jim Shepard
July 14, 2021
“But then there are those who wear their destinies like nooses, whose lives run straight as planks, however they try to twist.”
-Madeline Miller
April 20, 2021
“..the one corner of the throw rug that flipped up like a cowlick…”
-Celeste Ng
March 28, 2021
“With the help of fear and echoes and winter silences, that dog had a voice like a big bronze gong.”
-Kurt Vonnegut
March 7, 2021
“He skitters through the schoolyard like a traitor to childhood.”
-Richard Powers
The Simile Museum 