Welcome to another installment of If My Book, the Monkeybicycle feature in which authors compare their recently released books to weird things. This week Terena Elizabeth Bell writes about Tell Me What You See, her debut story collection out from Whiskey Tit.
If Tell Me What You See were an animal, it would be a tiger.
If Tell Me What You See were a plant, it would be a spirea.
If Tell Me What You See were a color, it would be red.
If Tell Me What You See were a band, it would be The Clash.
If Tell Me What You See were a mode of transportation, it would be a plane.
If Tell Me What You See were a piece of clothing, it would be a bra.
If Tell Me What You See were an Olympic sport, it’d be rhythmic gymnastics.
If Tell Me What You See were a superhero, it’d be your grandmother doing whatever it takes to keep us alive.
If Tell Me What You See were a physicist, it would be Stephen Hawking.
If Tell Me What You See were an element, it’d be time.
If Tell Me What You See were a zeitgeist, it’d be the last two years.
If Tell Me What You See were a location, it would be in your face.
If Tell Me What You See were a city, it would be New York.
If Tell Me What You See were a commonwealth, it would be Kentucky.
If Tell Me What You See were a trait, it’d be brutal honesty.
If Tell Me What You See were a painting, it would be Guernica.
Terena Elizabeth Bell’s debut short fiction collection, Tell Me What You See, is forthcoming Holiday 2022 from Whiskey Tit. It contains ten experimental stories about the January 6th invasion on the US Capitol, the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, climate change, the increasing number of Alzheimer’s cases, and other news events from 2020-2021. Learn more at terenaelizabethbell.com and follow her on Twitter at @TerenaBell.
