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Mike Handley's Blog – July 2010 Archive (5)
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Similes might just be my favorite literary tool. Stumbling across the perfect analogous description is -- to my palate -- like finding the sole chocolate-covered cherry in a Whitman’s Sampler.…
Added by Mike Handley on July 26, 2010 at 1:08pm — 11 Comments
And Barely a Drop to Drink
Amolika walks carefully in the floodwaters -- short strides, feeling the contours underfoot -- but her thoughts are of Rajib, drying and massaging her pale prunish toes. Although her treading is well practiced, her saree’s hem is soaked, which means the garment will soon smell like bad cabbage if she doesn’t wash it in the same muddy pool…
ContinueAdded by Mike Handley on July 20, 2010 at 7:48pm — 17 Comments
Not Funny Har Har
The sleeves of his houndstooth coat were empty, pinned at the shoulders because he had no arms to fill them. His disheveled, slicked-back gray hair lay in contrast to red-rimmed eyes and a jaundiced beak of a schnoz.…
ContinueAdded by Mike Handley on July 3, 2010 at 10:30pm — 10 Comments
Working Boys of Ardmore
Added by Mike Handley on July 3, 2010 at 11:07am — 20 Comments
Unforgettable Balls
Like a troupe of G-men closing in on John Dillinger’s lair, faces painted black to ward off sunbeams, the whatchamacallits scampered through the long grass toward the pond slick with algae. Only when the scouts advanced did the rest of the group surge forward, bush by bush and rock by rock.…
ContinueAdded by Mike Handley on July 1, 2010 at 6:54pm — 14 Comments
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