It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to the wall.

She walked into his office like a centipede with 98 legs missing.

Even in his latter years,Granddad had a mind like a steel trap,only one that had been left out so long it had rusted shut.

John and Mary had never met. They were like two humming birds who had also never met.

From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie,surreal quality,like when you are on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00PM instead of 7:30.

Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master'