Significant Objects

Popsicle-stick construction

[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Sara Ryan, has ended. Original price: $2. Final price: $15.50.] Anne Cole writes: The summer when I was nine, Mom bought boxes and boxes of popsicles on sale, lemon-lime, some discontinued brand. They looked like fluorescent jaundice on a stick, but they tasted sharply sour-sweet, and I loved [...]