What? Not enough stories about objects in your week? Well then! Check out these entries in the Significant Objects Fictionaut Group, where the following talented writers have all created stories about the above object. Which one do you find to … Continue reading
Years ago, when I was (briefly) a grad student in Sociology, at Boston University, I discovered that positivist science doesn’t offer satisfactory models for synthesizing a cluster of elements that resist reduction to a common denominator, generative first principle, or … Continue reading
[The bidding for this object, with story by Blake Butler, has ended. Original price: 99 cents. Final price: $59.00. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to Girls Write Now.] My granddad’s granddad had a box under his … Continue reading
We’ve mentioned a few other art projects that use eBay as a platform or medium. The idea-based artist Caleb Larsen’s A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter is a fun one. It’s a significant object — a sculpture, supposedly, though it looks … Continue reading
[The auction for this object, with story by Duane Swierczynski, has ended. Original price: $1.00. Final price: $16.50. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to Girls Write Now. ] Hi there. Don’t be afraid. I’m not going … Continue reading
[The auction for this object, with story by Lakin Khan, has ended. Original price: $1.00. Final price: $21.50. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to Girls Write Now. ] The cardboard sign, neatly hand-lettered in black, was … Continue reading
[The auction for this object, with story by Lance Gould, has ended Original price: $1.50. Final price: $14.50. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to Girls Write Now. ] Carpenter usually took a bathroom break at 11:15. … Continue reading
[ The auction for this object, with story by Benjamin Percy, has ended. Original price: $1.50. Final price: $63.50. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to Girls Write Now. ] I brought to school a rubber band … Continue reading
