[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Terese Svoboda, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $42. This is part of a series of five epistolary stories guest-curated by Ben Greenman. Proceeds from this auction will go to One Story.] Dear Wicked One: As in “wick,” your sat-upon heart suggests so much to [...]
Continue reading...29. April 2010
[The auction for this object, with story by Maaza Mengiste, has ended. Original price: 33 cents. Final price: $19.00. This is the second of three stories in our Identical Objects series. Proceeds from this auction go to Girls Write Now.] There was a set of triplets in Addis Ababa born on the third day of the [...]
Continue reading...15. April 2010
[The auction for this object, with story by Rebecca Coffey, has ended. Original price: 79 cents. Final price: $15.50. Significant Objects will donate proceeds from this auction to Girls Write Now.] It was all because of what happened the Halloween she was eight. We’d had pumpkin soup and near-beer for dinner. The soup gave her gas. But [...]
Continue reading...12. April 2010
[The auction for this object, with story by John Wray, has ended. Original price: 99 cents. Final price: $20.50. Significant Objects will donate proceeds from this auction to Girls Write Now.] “It’s certainly — well. It’s certainly a something,” Lily murmured, upon being introduced to the Object. “But what kind of something is it?” “This,” said Oliver, [...]
Continue reading...1. April 2010
[The auction for this object, with story by Carole Maso, has ended. Original price: $1.99. Final price: $57.50. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds from this auction to Girls Write Now.] The sun was rising and the tips of the trees, backlit, began to glow. The day commenced, dipped in fire. From her window she could [...]
Continue reading...15. March 2010
[The auction for this object, with story by Kirsten Miller, has ended. Original price: $1.49. Final price: $35.00. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds from this auction to Girls Write Now.] This dome doll was purchased three years ago for $1.07 (including tax) at a Dollar Store in the Chattahoochee Shopping Center in Knoxville, Tennessee. It [...]
Continue reading...5. March 2010
[The bidding for this object, with story by Blake Butler, has ended. Original price: 99 cents. Final price: $59.00. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to Girls Write Now.] My granddad’s granddad had a box under his bed. If you got to open the box (you had to beg) you would find a [...]
Continue reading...4. March 2010
[The auction for this object, with story by Duane Swierczynski, has ended. Original price: $1.00. Final price: $16.50. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to Girls Write Now. ] Hi there. Don’t be afraid. I’m not going to hurt you. I understand your trepidation. It’s not everyday a torn suit hanging on a rack starts [...]
Continue reading...11. February 2010
[The auction for this item, with story by Robert Lopez, has ended. Original price: $1.00. Final price: $19.50. Part of a special collaboration with Underwater New York, this object's story shipped rolled into a vintage bottle found on the beach of Dead Horse Bay, Brooklyn. Proceeds from this auction go to 826 National.] A man on [...]
Continue reading...10. February 2010
[The auction for this item, with story by Kathryn Davis, has ended. Original price: $1.00. Final price: $51.00. Part of a special collaboration with Underwater New York, this object's story shipped rolled into a vintage bottle found on the beach of Dead Horse Bay, Brooklyn. Proceeds from this auction go to 826 National.] The sorcerer drove [...]
Continue reading...5. February 2010
[The auction for this object, with story by Luc Sante, has ended. Original price: $1.50. Final price: $51.00. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to 826 National.] After my friend Claude had his accident I went to visit him in the hospital. When I saw him I had to cough to divert a [...]
Continue reading...2. February 2010
[The auction for this item, with story by Willy Vlautin, has ended. Original price: $2.99. Final price: $20.50. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to 826 National.] When he woke up in the middle of the night she was laying on top of him and he thought he was dying. It was summer [...]
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16. June 2010
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