[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Edward Champion, has ended. Original price: $1.50. Final price: $56.] The resilient ruffians ran away with the geisha’s canes just after she refused to perform a classless act. While it was … Continue reading
Yesterday I said we had an idea for Significant Objects Volume 2 — or at least the start of an idea. In a nutshell: What if we had writers invent Significance for a new set of objects, this time with … Continue reading
Thanks again to all who participated in our Six-Word Contest in Conjunction with SmithMag.net. And while I’m at it: Thanks, SmithMag.net! We published our winner yesterday: Read (and bid!) here. It was, of course, an excruciating choice. Peruse the 400+ … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Stacey Levine, has ended. Original price: $4. Final price: $10.50.] I’m not a collector, but really a purloiner, and there’s only a brief backstory to these novelties. When my second wife … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by (Six-Word Story Contest winner) Rob Agredo, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $27.] “You lose,” she puffed.
We’ll be posting the SmithMag/Significant Objects Six Word Contest winner momentarily, and publishing the five runners-up tomorrow. There were about 430 submissions, which make for fun reading, here. Once again it was a very tough choice, so big thanks to … Continue reading
Later today we’ll publish the winner of our Six-Word Contest with SmithMag. And later this week we’ll post our 100th Significant Object. And then what? People have been asking: Is there a way to keep Significant Objects going in some … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Bruce Holland Rogers, has ended. Original price: 29 cents. Final price: $21.50.] By my third visit to Dr. Peragua, I had decided on what I was going to steal. There were … Continue reading
If you couldn’t access the Significant Objects website yesterday afternoon/evening, or at other times recently, you weren’t alone. As of yesterday, our web-host had served up nearly 30,000 pages during November, which is more than the combined total of pages … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Lauren Mechling, has ended. Original price: $2. Final price: $30.] It was during Charlotte Sanger and Georgia Howard’s punk period — which actually had nothing to do with music and everything to do with mustard nailpolish and … Continue reading
Coming up this week: Objects No. 95 through 100 — 0ur final batch of stories! Including the winner of our Six-Word Contest with SmithMag.net, plus Jonathan Lethem, and more. Your last chance to acquire one of the Original 100 Significant … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Victor LaValle, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $51.99.] Who the hell goes to Portugal? In my family? The question arose as my sister and I were going through my … Continue reading
Around 400 six-word stories about the lighter-that-looks-like-a-small-poolball so far. Pretty fun reading. Deadline is 8 pm Eastern tonight; we’ll pick a winner and publish early next week. Read/enter/do both: here.
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Kate Bernheimer, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $104.50.] A long time ago, I was very poor and often traded my body for cigarettes, Chelada, or food (in order of … Continue reading
If it’s before 11:40 a.m. Eastern, then consider this post a notice that at least one and maybe both of us will be on The Brian Lehrer show on WNYC at that time. If it’s 11:40 or after, and you’re … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Mark Sarvas, has ended. Original price: 25 cents. Final price: $41.] When I was seventeen, I was expelled from high school. My father, reasonably enough, gave me a choice: Get a … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Meghan O’Rourke, has ended. Original price: 50 cents. Final price: $62. ] After my mother died, a stranger emailed me. He told me that my mother had been the most important … Continue reading
The auction for the BBQ Sauce Jar + (Slate Contest Winner) Matthew J. Wells Story ends today. Right at the moment the bidding is at $54, which is impressive. Interestingly, the S.O. shop account tells me that 26 eBayers are … Continue reading
