Terms such as brick, doorstop, and paperweight are similar. "Issue 2" is a rubber doorstop, or wedge featured in The Thing Quarterly. For three years, the rock served as a bulky doorstop. Paul grabs a metal doorstop and viciously bashes her in the face, finally killing her. Zoe stops him by attacking him with a metal doorstop, supposedly killing him. Den had attacked Chrissie and Zoe hit Den with a doorstop to stop him. She used the skull cap as a doorstop. However, some reviewers felt the book was excessively long, referring to it as a "doorstop". She exclaims how convenient this will be as a doorstop, and happily goes home. The coach used the rock as a doorstop until 1966. It would be like putting a doorstop in front of a speeding train. She hits him again with the doorstop, finally killing Den. Franzen's 2001 doorstop of a domestic drama teaches that, yes, you can go home again. In 2014 Smith/Doorstop published a New & Selected Poems, "Out of Silence".