Tag Archive | "toy"
Toy Car + Marisa Silver story
[The auction for this object, with story by Marisa Silver, has ended. Original price: free. Final price: $41.00. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds from this auction to Girls Write Now.] I failed my learner’s permit test three times. The first time, my father was angry, because he had gotten out of bed at seven thirty [...]
Continue reading...Toy Bronco + Kasper Hauser story, part 3
Thursday, March 11, 2010
[This is the third installment in a four-part story by the members of Kasper Hauser. The auction for this object, with story by Dan Klein, has ended. Original price: 50 cents. Final price: $38.50. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to Girls Write Now.] I commissioned this sculpture of Fries n’ a Shake [...]
Continue reading...Rubber Band Gun + Benjamin Percy story
Monday, March 1, 2010
[ 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 [...]
Continue reading...Toy Airplane
Thursday, February 11, 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...Yellow Bear
Wednesday, February 10, 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...Fortune-Telling Device
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Rachel Axler, has ended. Original price: $1.49. Final price: $56.00. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to 826 National.] 10/12/91 Q: Does John like me? A: TRY AGAIN Q: Does John like me? A: TRY AGAIN Q: …Does Alex like me? A: YES 11/27/91 Q: So I asked John out, and he [...]
Continue reading...Pink Horse
Thursday, November 5, 2009
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Kate Bernheimer, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $104.50.] A long time ago, I was very poor and often traded my body for cigarettes, Chelada, or food (in order of preference). I had two children — both daughters — and together we lived in a motel [...]
Continue reading...Amoco Yo-Yo
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Mark Sarvas, has ended. Original price: 25 cents. Final price: $41.] When I was seventeen, I was expelled from high school. My father, reasonably enough, gave me a choice: Get a job or get out. The only job for a 30-mile radius was the night shift behind [...]
Continue reading...Felt Mouse
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
[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; [...]
Continue reading...Jar of Marbles
Monday, November 2, 2009
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Ben Ehrenreich, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $50.] I pull a marble from your skull each time we kiss. “Give it back,” you say, each time. “Darling,” I say. “Baby,” I say. “No.” I put the marble in my pocket. Later, I will hide it with the [...]
Continue reading...Wooden Animal
Monday, October 26, 2009
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Meg Cabot, has ended. Original price: 75 cents. Final price: $108.50.] So Brandon was going to Cabo for spring break and I saved up all my tip money for a year to chip in for the rental car to go with him. But then at my last cleaning [...]
Continue reading...Dilbert Stress Toy
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Betsey Swardlick, has ended. Original price: 25 cents. Final price: $26. This story is the third in a three-part series produced in collaboration with The Center for Cartoon Studies. ]
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