Significant Objects

Geisha Bobblehead

Thursday, November 12, 2009

[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 [...]

Cracker Barrel Ornament

Friday, October 30, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Maud Newton, has ended. Original price: 59 cents. Final price: $24.50.] This astonishing “Cracker Barrel” artifact appears to be a souvenir of modern vintage, representing a down-home North American restaurant-and-country-store chain that upholds Christian values by refusing to hire gay people. In fact, the object dates to [...]

BBQ Sauce Jar

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by (Slate contest winner) Matthew J. Wells, has ended. Original price: 75 cents. Final price: $54.] Booth 106 was the regular table of Evelyn Nesbit — it’s where she was introduced to Charles Dana Gibson, who used her as the model for his famous Gibson Girl drawings; it’s [...]

Round Box

Monday, September 14, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Tim Carvell, has ended. Original price: 50 cents. Final price: $35.] On December 17, 1948, the Humboldt twins entered the world, Jerome screaming, Luke laughing. This pattern held. Jerome grew up to be as petulant, difficult and miserable as Luke was cheery, optimistic and polite. Their father, Max, [...]

Coconut Cup

Friday, September 11, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Annalee Newitz, has ended. Original price: 25 cents. Final price: $10.] At this point most people realize that getting marketers involved in space travel is a bad idea. But fifty years ago, right before the Martian economy collapsed, there was a craze for luxury space cruises [...]

Rainbow Sand Animal

Friday, September 4, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Sloane Crosley, has ended. Original price: 99 cents. Final price: $57.66.] Alec Baldwin never had a Bar Mitzvah. The non-fact of this, the bloated lack in the calendar of his mind, haunted him. How could he be a sterling example of manhood to little Billy, Danny and [...]

Praying hands

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Rosecrans Baldwin, has ended. Original price: $1.50. Final price: $26. ] The North Americans refused accusal. Constructed great cities and gave their names to them and let them crumble and then walked away. Disappeared in The Big Sand. Said never to apologize and seldom to slow down. [...]

Kneeling Man Figurine

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Glen David Gold, has ended. Original price: $2. Final price: $56.50.] Hell, of course, has a hierarchy; it is by definition all hierarchy. As James Blish noted, any act of magic requires harnessing the work of one demon at a time. Those who answer the call are [...]

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 [...]

“Hakuna Matata” figurine

Thursday, July 23, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Jennifer Michael Hecht, has ended. Original price: 99 cents. Final price: $10.50.] Kathy can remember how she left both of her ex-husbands but she can’t remember how she left Jeffrey. She can remember a phone call that seemed to finalize that she was leaving him with his [...]

Nutcracker with Troll Hair (or something)

Friday, July 17, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Adam Davies, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $14.50.] Authentic MR. YODELS Love Totem The “Sylvia St. Etienne” edition This is the only witness to — or, some say, the cause of — the tragic death of legendary chanteuse and muse to famous Ecuadorian footballer Francisco Chavarria NOT AN IMITATION! Condition The artifact [...]

Kitty Saucer

Monday, July 13, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by James Parker, has closed. Original price: $1.25. Final price: $15.53 ] “You know, of course,” said the periodontist, as he bore down with his scalpel, “that Nancy Pelosi is insane?” Floyd Haruspex, gaping and nearly prone in the chair, made no answer. The question had been rhetorical anyway. “She [...]

Tag Archive | "Third-person Omniscient Narrator"

Geisha Bobblehead

Cracker Barrel Ornament

BBQ Sauce Jar

Round Box

Coconut Cup

Rainbow Sand Animal

Praying hands

Kneeling Man Figurine

Duck Tray

“Hakuna Matata” figurine

Nutcracker with Troll Hair (or something)

Kitty Saucer

* S.O. v3 — for Girls Write Now

S.O. v1 — the EXPERIMENT

S.O. v2 — for 826 National