SIMILES
                                                                           SHILOH
 

• I whistle. It's like pressing a magic button
• long ears flopping, tail sticking up like a flagpole
• tail going like a propeller
• My dream sort of leaks out like were in a paper bag.
• Shiloh lays low on my lap, tail between his legs, shaking like a window blind in the breeze.
• I can smell his chewing tobacco, strong as coffee
• Bats her eyelashes against my skin, feels like a moth's wings.
• . . . to an old man whose face lights up like Christmas
• I'm tense as a ricket that night.
• . . . . all the while she hums to Shiloh like he's a baby in a cradle, not a dog in a box.
• A sound that makes my bones feel like icicles inside me.
• Shy as a field mouse.
• . . . . doorbell that sounds like church chimes.
• I'm happy as a flea on a dog.
• Next two days go by smooth as buttermilk.
• words come at me like bees.
• My mouth so dry it feels like fur.
• Head so thick as a coconut
• Givin a compliment to Judd Travers is like filling  a balloon with air.