“She looked at the ceiling, eyelashes batting like hummingbird wings.” — Dennis Vickers Batting Copy Share Image
“Your eyes flash like Fourth-of-July sparklers, headlights on a mountain road, sparks in a short-circuited toaster.” — Dennis Vickers Simile Copy Share Image
“Disappeared like fog in a stiff morning breeze, teen revilers when a squad car creeps up the driveway, roaches when the kitchen… — Dennis Vickers Disappear Copy Share Image
“No difference making a living with what’s between your ears and making one with what’s between your legs.” — Dennis Vickers Life Copy Share Image
“Wrinkles appeared and disappeared as he squinted his eyes and relaxed them, like someone peering into a strobe light, police car-top beacon,… — Dennis Vickers Blink Copy Share Image
“Your mother’s chili was onions, hamburger, tomato soup, kidney beans, no chili powder, no peppers. Mexican flags flew at half staff every… — Dennis Vickers Chili Copy Share Image
“Panting like a marathon runner at mile twenty, overheated bloodhound, steam engine crawling up the Continental Divide.” — Dennis Vickers Panting Copy Share Image
“Our reality may be fabled, but surely will be fleeting, because when the storyteller looks away, the story collapses. In the end,… — Dennis Vickers Fleeting Copy Share Image
“Faded like morning fog in the rising sun, sports team logo on a cheap T-shirt, ninety-nine dollar paint job on a Chevy.” — Dennis Vickers Faded Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, she emitted a loud, long fart, like air escaping a beach ball, exhaust pipe of a Model T, tire-inflating hose at… — Dennis Vickers Fart Copy Share Image
“Her eyes beamed over the top of the cup like Peterbilt high beams coming over a hillcrest, full moon rising over a… — Dennis Vickers Eyes Copy Share Image
“Alliteration is not a prostitute to be sold to every sailor who visits the port. This fine lady is a valuable literary… — Dennis Vickers Alliteration Copy Share Image
“He believed, as many do, that the better the shoe, the more exercise wearing it provided. With shoes good enough, the wearer… — Dennis Vickers Good enough Copy Share Image
“She had been skeptical about change since Obama’s first presidential campaign, when it seemed everyone was eager to change. She knew then,… — Dennis Vickers Change Copy Share Image
“Poetry comes out of you like a pot of oatmeal boiling over.” — Dennis Vickers Poetry Copy Share Image
“When one speaks of sex with midgets, one must speak French.” — Dennis Vickers Midgets Copy Share Image
“Abandoned like an empty beer bottle, cigarette butt, worn-out shoe.” — Dennis Vickers Abandoned Copy Share Image
“You’re the only you you get in this life! Show a little appreciation!” — Dennis Vickers Appreciation Copy Share Image
“Ditched like an unwanted cat, worn-out tire, ugly blind date.” — Dennis Vickers Blind date Copy Share Image
“Our stories are phantoms of fleeting moments reflected in mirrors.” — Dennis Vickers Fleeting moments Copy Share Image
“Change for its own sake doesn't make life more interesting; it only makes it different.” — Dennis Vickers Change Copy Share Image
“Her mighty eyebrow rose like a kite catching the wind, flock of geese fleeing a shotgun blast, excursion balloon departing carnival grounds.” — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
“Thighs spread out on the seat like water balloons, frying eggs, spilled syrup.” — Dennis Vickers Thighs Copy Share Image
“Polish the young woman’s ego like wax on a wood floor, Shinola on shoes, spit on an apple.” — Dennis Vickers Polish Copy Share Image
“Smiled like a homecoming queen, Pit Bull Terrier with a new collar, actress on the Letterman show.” — Dennis Vickers Homecoming queen Copy Share Image
“Divided like boys and girls at a summer camp, egg whites and yolks in grandma’s lemon-meringue-pie recipe, dogs and cats in pet… — Dennis Vickers Divided Copy Share Image
“Like a fire alarm going off in your ear, sulfur up your nose, mouth full of sour milk, reality is what it… — Dennis Vickers Reality Copy Share Image
“Now I felt exposed, on display like a puppy in a pet store window, strip steak in a butcher case, burglar caught… — Dennis Vickers Exposed Copy Share Image
“High-pitched squeal like a beauty pageant contestant found best in show, Oprah audience member given a new Chevy, rookie actress surprised with… — Dennis Vickers Beauty Copy Share Image
“Laughter erupted from her belly and shot out her mouth like pigeons through an open cage door, schoolchildren bursting into summer vacation,… — Dennis Vickers Humor Copy Share Image
“The bus’s wipers slapped out of synch, like poorly rehearsed ballroom dancers, arms of a neophyte swimmer dogpaddling, wobbling grocery-cart wheel and… — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
“The physical world exists, but that’s only the paint and canvas; that’s only the instrument we use to make music; that’s only… — Dennis Vickers Music Copy Share Image
“Snatched away like socks glommed off the sale table at Wal-Mart, dog treat snapped up by an eager German Sheppard, mouse picked… — Dennis Vickers Animal Copy Share Image
“A surprising number, like options in the cereal aisle, liberal studies graduates working fast food, people who don’t know Shakespeare coined the… — Dennis Vickers Fast food Copy Share Image
“For most of human history people owned other people. Then, only a hundred and fifty years ago, our ancestors figured out that… — Dennis Vickers Bad idea Copy Share Image
