Simily is a great way to add colour to an otherwise monochromatic scene. The cop's smile was as crooked as a broken mouse trap. That's a great Raymond Chandler line. In one of Cormac McCarthy's books The Road he says, the soft black talc blew through the streets like squid ink and coiling along the ocean floor and the scavengers trod silky holes which closed behind them as silently as eyes. Margaret Atwood in The Blind Assassin wrote, the the bread was soft and white and flavorless as an angel's buttock. All of these would just otherwise be dust blowing through the street or an old woman eating a slice of bread or a cop smiling. But with careful use of simily saying something was like something else or saying it was as though something else you can make it much more interesting. I want you to come up with an original simily and post it in the comments or on Twitter or on any of the other websites listed below. Avoid cliche. I don't want you to say the man fell like a ton of bricks because then no one will actually picture a ton of bricks falling because they've heard that expression a thousand times before. But if you say the man fell like a dead rhinoceros then a picture of dead rhinoceros falling they apply that level of forced to the guy and go, oh he did fall hard. So give me an original simily. Go!