like lightning

The designs included a salted-black landscape of thorns over rubble fields, oddly shaped spikes bursting through an incongruent grid of stone blocks, an unsettling off-pattern of roads which go nowhere, menacing symbols like lightning bolts visible from nearby high-ground — all meant to signal the most primitive, instinctual fear of danger in humans.

The whole morning news team experience in those early years was like lightning in a bottle.

And then the shock of the impact wore off, and he quickly declared his head the winner as sharp pains spread like lightning bolts through his skull.

The broom bolted forward like lightning, faster than a galloping horse...faster than a winged horse, even.

“I feel like lightning did strike twice — and then some.”