After reading the similes below, complete the unfinished ones.  Try for something unexpected.

The baled wheat scattered
everywhere like missing coffins
                                                     ~Carolyn Forche

Loneliness spreading
fast like a gas fire
                                     ~Frances Mayes

A gull is locked like a ghost in the blue attic of heaven
                                                                       ~Charles Wright

tired as....
hot as....
waves unfurled like...
after the shelling, the town looked as if...
disgusting as...
the child trembled like...
the airplane rose like a...
black as...
he entered the room like...

Now write three negative similes

It wasn't like...