Tag Archive | "romance"

Felt Mouse

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

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[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 person in his life. They went to Catholic school together. He was unpopular, she was popular; [...]

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Toothbrush Holder

Thursday, October 8, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Terese Svoboda, has ended. Original price: 75 cents. Final price: $15.50.] You are fitting it in between the toilet paper and the shaver accessories, on top of the wart remover and the nose hair clippers. You say, tentacles for moon-people — this is where they store them. Prehensile [...]

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Crumb Sweeper

Thursday, October 1, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Shelley Jackson, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $30.99.] When I first met him, the moon — a chip of bone in the pale blue of morning — was just past full. I can be sure of that, though it was only later that the phases [...]

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Bird Figurine

Monday, August 31, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Sung J. Woo, has ended. Original price: 50 cents. Final price: $52.] Last summer, my wife and I held a barbeque in our back yard. After the event, I saw a little yellow bird with a black crown and wings on the knickknack shelf above the toilet [...]

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4-Tile

Monday, August 24, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Toni Schlesinger, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $88.] “I have something for you,” she says. “For me?” he asks. “For you!” she says. “Wait, waiter, I’ll have a pale gold drink.” “For you?” asked the waiter. “I’ll have one that’s blue.” He coughs. “I’m so excited.” “Here it is.” She [...]

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Pabst Bottle Opener

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Sean Howe, has ended. Original price: 25 cents. Final price: $20.51.] It’s difficult work, wooing Donna. For one thing, the rhythms of my courtship are constantly interrupted by the lustful swarm of others, many of whom clumsily flirt with her. I’m impressed with the way she puts [...]

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Meat Thermometer

Monday, August 3, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Nicholson Baker, has ended. Original price: 75 cents. Final price: $51.] Everything had a temperature in those days.

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Duck Tray

Friday, July 24, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Stewart O'Nan, has ended. Original price: $3. Final price: $71.] Every evening when Henry came home from work, without fail, he set his briefcase on the marble-topped table in the front hall, climbed the stairs to their room, faced the dresser and emptied his pockets before hanging [...]

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