Today's OneWord: Silk

"Her skin was soft as silk," she wrote before crumpling up the binder paper in her left fist and tossing it into the nearest wastebasket. Bah. "Soft as silk." Why did everyone like using that? Holly was sure that human skin was not the same as silk texture-wise. If anything, skin had bumps and grooves and hills and valleys. That seemed better than comparing it to a piece of cloth.

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