1.   A bad head cold can sometimes feel like flu.

2.   After camping for a week, my own bed felt like the lap of luxury.

3.   Afterwards it feels like the satisfactory completion of another episode of a long-running game show.

4.   Alyssia watched from the sidelines, feeling like a fish out of water, watching Piers from under her lashes.

5.   And it used to make me feel like shit to hear that.

6.   And yet advocacy often feels like the only effective thing I can do.

7.   Are you so anxious to know what it feels like to have both eyeballs gouged out, one at a time?

8.   As she stepped out of the front door, Alexandra felt like a bird finding its cage door opportunely left open.

9.   As the drug wore off, I felt like RoboCop, or Terminator, some kind of mutant cyborg.