365 Short Stories (Metaphors)—Week Fifty-One

I love metaphors, figurative language or suggestive phrasing folded into a story like raspberry filling in vanilla layer cake.

“ ReMem ,” by Amy Brill, One Story

This brilliantly crafted story spins our present technology out into the future. The raspberry filling is the riff on memory. Among the many sentences I underlined, this one:

For my concern I earn a look beamed directly from the border of Pityland.

And this one:

One could tuck a basketball between her chin and the top of my head.

(Geeky writ...