Motel Room Key

[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

Wooden Mallet

[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Colson Whitehead, has ended. Original price: 33 cents. Final price: $71.] On September 16th, 2031 at 2:35 am, a temporal rift – a “tear” in the very fabric of time and … Continue reading

Device

[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Tom Bartlett, has ended. Original price: $4. Final price: $15.50.] From June 1996 to February 1999 I worked as a manager at a well-known electronic supply retailer in a mostly vacant … Continue reading

Small Stapler

[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Katharine Weber, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $10.50.] Thirty-two years ago I was sent by the Smithers Employment Agency to interview with the worst client in the history of … Continue reading