Tag Archive | "unhappy romance"

Lighter Shaped Like Small Pool Ball

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by (Six-Word Story Contest winner) Rob Agredo, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $27.] “You lose,” she puffed.

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Amoco Yo-Yo

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

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[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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Wooden Animal

Monday, October 26, 2009

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[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 [...]

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Motel Room Key

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

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[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 ever owned. He saved ticket stubs and playbills. He had three hand-knit sweaters from an elderly [...]

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Hawaiian Utensils

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Stephen Elliott, has ended. Original price: $1.99. Final price: $4.24.] I bought these Hawaiian utensils, a wooden spoon and fork, while living in Alaska in the mid-eighties with my first wife. We were living outside the Eskimo village Wales on the western edge of the state, three [...]

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Cat Mug

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Thomas McNeely, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $17.] As a mug, it was useless: pot-bellied, so whatever we drank, herbal tea, cheap whiskey, cheap red wine, dribbled down our chins, as if we were children; the pouch behind the cat’s head, a promise of tidy [...]

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Penguin Creamer

Thursday, September 3, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Sari Wilson, has ended. Original price: $3. Final price: $31.] It’s incongruous. The buttery finish, the fluted spout, the air hole in the back of its head offering a peek into its ceramic innards, a glimpse of the thick cream that no one is supposed to have [...]

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Elvis Chocolate Tin

Friday, August 21, 2009

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[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 flecks of lemon pulp into her Diet Pepsi and thought about all the men who had [...]

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Rope/Wood Monkey Figurine

Friday, August 14, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Kevin Brockmeier, has ended. Original price: 50 cents. Final price: $41.] I was more or less in love with this girl, and her name was Samantha. I thought I was ugly, and she thought she was, but the truth is she was beautiful from every direction you [...]

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Cape Cod Shoe

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Sheila Heti, has ended. Original price: $4. Final price: $77.51.] I never thought of leaving Cape Cod. I imagined I would live there my entire life long. But then Jack and I busted up — when I finally got the courage to leave — and I thought [...]

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Spotted Dogs Figurine

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Curtis Sittenfeld, has ended. Original price: $1.00. Final price: $17.50.] It’s not that I think I married the wrong man. Because really, how can any of us make a decision except as the person we are in a particular moment? I met Larry and Ronald less than [...]

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