"Greasy Lake"

I thought that Boyle's "Greasy Lake" contained a load of good metaphors. For instance, when the main character is fleeing the man that he knocked out, he swims into a floating dead body, which turns out to be Al, the owner of the parked motorcycle. When this happens, he says, "it gave like a rubber duck, it gave like flesh." This takes us from the initial perception of a 19 year old to the shocking revelation that that is a dead human corpse. Another metaphor in "Greasy Lake" is "I spilled in the grass - in the dark, rank mysterious nighttime grass of Greasy Lake. I stopped there by the open door, peering vaguely into the night that puddled up round my feet." Water is used as a metaphor for car keys. Spilled refers to the car keys and puddled is used to describe the darkness of the night. Very cool. Two thumbs up for Boyle.