Significant Objects

Metal Dish + Scott Jacobson Story

8. March 2010

[Bid on this Significant Object, with story by Scott Jacobson, here. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to Girls Write Now..] Donald “Dax” Florin stood behind the bar, balancing the hard-boiled eggs. Dax — 44 years old, face just a lifestyle change or two away from being handsome in a Treat Williams kinda [...]

Rubber Band Gun + Benjamin Percy Story

1. March 2010

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[ Bid on this Significant Object, with story by Benjamin Percy, here. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to Girls Write Now. ] I brought to school a rubber-band gun I bought at the mall. I bought it at that store with the tarot cards and the stink bombs and the beer T-shirts [...]

Wooden Armadillo

27. January 2010

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[The auction for this item, with story by Randy Kennedy, has ended. Original price: $1.00. Final price: $16.50. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to 826 National.] Later, in the glove box, the police found a letter. It said: “Letter To The Police, All the stuff in the trunk and underneath the sleeping bag [...]

Music Box

25. January 2010

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[The auction for this item, with story by Nicholas Rombes, has ended. Original price: 50 cents. Final price: $147.50. This story was chosen from the S.O. Fictionaut Group. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to 826 National.] The box. Of course, the box. How could he forget? The music box disguised as a gift box [...]

Love Pillow

18. January 2010

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[The auction for this item, with story by David Abrams, has ended. Original price: 99 cents. Final price: $36.00. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to 826 National.] In the end, the pillow came between them. It was the last bone of contention, the impasse they faced after dividing the spoils of a [...]

Dragon Figurine

12. January 2010

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Erin Ellia, has ended. Original price: $1.99. Final price: $31.00. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to 826 National.] Congratulations, gentlemen. And, er, ladies. Welcome to – what’d that guy call it? “The most important club you’ll ever join.” Like he said, this here’s [...]

Green Bird Glass

11. January 2010

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Ed Skoog, has ended. Original price: $3.00. Final price: $26.00. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to 826 National.] Back then, I taught introductory drawing at East Memphis Community College to save enough money for an engagement ring. Iris and I set our wedding [...]

Meat Tenderizer

8. January 2010

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Patrick Cates, has ended. Original price: $1.00. Final price: $29.00. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to 826 National.] “Gastro-wot, Tone?” The regular punters were not happy when Tony told them that he couldn’t afford to run the Haunch of Venison any more and that, [...]

Geisha Bobblehead

12. November 2009

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[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 true that the geisha dramatized the occasional lowbrow feat, befitting an object of her status, even [...]

Bar Mitzvah Bookends

11. November 2009

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[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 died, I sought companionship. So I installed a soda machine in my bedroom — it would be [...]

Umbrella Trinket

10. November 2009

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[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 lots of candidates. His office is full of keepsakes from his travels to meet shamans, whom [...]

Blue Vase

9. November 2009

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[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 slinking away from Pine Ridge High School ’s mandatory double-period orchestra — that Charlotte spotted her mother in the front [...]

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Metal Dish + Scott Jacobson Story

Rubber Band Gun + Benjamin Percy Story

Wooden Armadillo

Music Box

Love Pillow

Dragon Figurine

Green Bird Glass

Meat Tenderizer

Geisha Bobblehead

Bar Mitzvah Bookends

Umbrella Trinket

Blue Vase

* S.O. v3 — for Girls Write Now

S.O. v1 — the EXPERIMENT

S.O. v2 — for 826 National