Writing Prompt Write an extremely specific simile or metaphor to convey an extremely specific emotion.

[CarburetorThompson]

Write an extremely specific simile or metaphor to convey an extremely specific emotion.

Here’s my example. “He felt frustrated and more importantly betrayed, like he had found a previously free gas station air pump that now had a three dollar service charge.”

 

[NotaNuffian]

Never had Jon felt great high then greater low, like how he managed to rush into a clean toilet for an explosive diarrhea, only to find that there is no toilet paper.

Oh wait, there is another. Crypto.

 

[Syringe]

They seemed close at first, but unveiling their relationship revealed that they were lonelier than the number 8 on a microwave.

 

[Beeteetee]

JR was having a good day, waking up in time, breakfast excellently made and the cat nuzzling the leg just before JR went out to work, a simple gift of affection like a waving mother at a bus stop as the child leaves for school.

While driving, JR grinned at the choice of song the music app on the phone shuffled to, It was an old Kpop song that JR one misheard the lyrics in English as, "Make a change, oh my god!" - that song inspired JR to get out of a rut those years back.

Right when the song ended, the light turned green and JR drove into the intersection - at that moment, JR immediately found the world numbly ringing, the thoughts becoming wet and sticky like slime and the senses felt as if it was sludged slicked iron clay, - JR felt hands grabbing and pulling into the road and within moments JR felt the chest was being forcefully shoved to a rhythm of an anthem song - a song that was fading away.

JR wondered as life ebbed away, It was a good day - it should've stayed that way.

 

[georgelee5786]

'It reminded me of the time my coworker John swallowed pure lithium."

 

[RepresentingCaution]

She felt exhausted and irritable, like when her baby was teething and had been sucking on her nipples for three hours straight because he rejected all twenty of the pacifiers and teething toys she'd offered him.

 

[Bobple]

He felt justifiable angry, like when he watched his family member break their arm after tripping on the one--clean but scratched thanks to dog scratches, brightly coloured but not matching the rest of the house--step, for the the fifth year in a row.

 

[Sweetmeat]

She turned her head and glanced at him out of the corner of her eyes disdainfully, like a cat that has decided it's done being petted and you can leave now.

 

[Ambarish7]

"Fuck!" 'nuff said

 

[fantasiasera]

The girl's obedient silence pacified her mother. Her mother's cold frown lifted crookedly, like how a cat stretches its back. Then she laughed.

 

[ThrillingHuman]

Listening to the chatter of the surrounding humans and no way to leave politely [TrashyHuman] felt the same annoyance as one would when they had to scratch the sole of their foot when wearing heavy shoes.

 

[Cipiteca396]

You shouldn't expect it to snow every day of the summer just because it happened once.

 

[watnumberis]

He froze looking, his heart filled with static that could be heard from a TV at 3:00 am on a Friday.