English Teachers' Challenges

	Why English Teachers Die Young supposedly from High School students' short stories
A	Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.
B	His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.
C	He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.
D	She grew on him like she was a colony of E. Coli and he was room-temperature Canadian beef.
E	She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh...like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.
F	Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
G	He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.
H	The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge free ATM.
I	The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.
J	McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.
K	From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30.
L	Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.
M	The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.
N	Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers race across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 pm traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 pm at a speed of 35 mph.
O	They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth.
P	John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.
Q	He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant and she was the East River.
R	Even in his last years, Grandpappy had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut.
S	Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.
T	The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.
U	The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.
V	He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame, maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.
W	The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.
X	It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.
Y	He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.