[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
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Nick Asbury, has ended. Original price: $2. Final price: $11.61. ] Kenny is a funny clown Kenny is a funny clown. He sees the whole world upside-down. Kenny is my best … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Laura Lippman, has ended. Original price: $2. Final price: $45.01.] Her husband saved everything. He had a box, for example, of cigarette lighters, useless plugs taken from every car he had … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Margot Livesey, has ended. Original price: 10 cents. Final price: $33.77.] Lydia felt the unfamiliar weight even as she stepped over the threshold of Stacy’s flat, and when, in the hall, … Continue reading
[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 … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Jessica Helfand, has ended. Original price: 50 cents. Final price: $24. This story was part of a special collaboration with Design Observer, where it was co-published here.] Harriet squeezed the last … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Tom Vanderbilt, has ended. Original price: 75 cents. Final price: $37. This story was part of a special collaboration with Design Observer, where it was co-published here.] If he had a … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Bruce Sterling, has ended. Original price: $3. Final price: $86.] In early 1861, before the Union blockade closed the port of New Orleans, four ships arrived from distant Naples. They bore … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Todd Pruzan, has ended. Original price: $2.99. Final price: $14.50.] The worst thing is: he sees the golf-ball bank two, maybe three full minutes before it breaks his nose. It’s sitting … Continue reading
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story Mark Frauenfelder, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $23.] Matt saw the tiny blue bottle on the third step of the main entrance to the Los Angeles Central Library. It was … Continue reading
