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April 18, 2010
Bubblebath Teapot + Damion Searls story
Object No. 41 of 50 — Significant Objects v3
[Bid on this Significant Object, with story by Damion Searls, here. Proceeds from this auction go to Girls Write Now.]
She had gotten used to the long subway ride, the 3 uptown and past uptown to what came after. She usually saw patients in her office near NYU, but Damien Toussaint was admitted to Mercy's the week of the earthquake and she treated him there, then thought she'd keep seeing him somewhere familiar for their follow-ups after he was...
Significant Tweets for Week Ending 2010-04-18
Micro-fiction contest! Theme: TELEPATHY
Over at our sister site, HiLobrow, Patrick Cates has announced a third micro-fiction contest. The theme: TELEPATHY.
The deadline for submissions is 9p.m. EST on Sunday, April 25., so act fast!
THE GUIDELINES: No more than 250 words. Only one story per person. Stories featuring explicit/hardcore/extreme sex and/or violence will not be considered. Curse words OK, though, if necessary. Stories replete with spelling and/or grammatical errors will not be considered. Do not include a title.
HOW TO...
April 17, 2010
Cocky the Fox
Last month, I invited Significant Objects readers to contribute to The Ballad of Cocky the Fox, a brilliant novel-in-progress by James Parker (who contributed a Kitty Plate story to SO v1) that Matthew Battles and I were hoping to serialize at HiLobrow.com.
Parker writes cultural commentary and criticism for The Boston Globe and the Atlantic Monthly (where he is a contributing editor); what excites readers is, as Battles has put it, "the sheer word-glamor of his prose — his sentences crackle, ...
April 16, 2010
Wooden Bottle + Christine Hill story
No. 40 of 50 — Significant Objects v3
[Bid on this Significant Object, with story by Christine Hill, here. Proceeds from this auction go to Girls Write Now.]
Collecting is in my family. I got the bug early, but never got the value part correct. I keep frivolous collections of worthless objects — inventoried, catalogued, color-coded, feather-dusted and meticulously cared for.
M comes home extolling the virtues of this bottle made of wood he paid actual money for in town and then we argue about i...
Significant Objects X Kate Bingaman-Burt X 20×200 — now available!
11x14; edition of 500: $50!
I teased this last week — and now it's here! We're really excited to announce the latest S.O. team-up, resulting in thoroughly affordable art, and another way to support v3 beneficiary Girls Write Now.
The prints you see on this page are available in limited editions from 20×200, Jen Bekman's online project that sells a dazzling array of prints from an impressive roster of artists, all priced to meet a mission of making art available to all.
16x20; edition of 20...
Signficant Objects X Kate Bingaman-Burt X 20×200 — now available!
11x14; edition of 500: $50!
I teased this last week — and now it's here! We're really excited to announce the latest S.O. team-up, resulting in thoroughly affordable art, and another way to support v3 beneficiary Girls Write Now.
The prints you see on this page are available in limited editions from 20×200, Jen Bekman's online project that sells a dazzling array of prints from an impressive roster of artists, all priced to meet a mission of making art available to all.
16x20; edition of 20...
April 15, 2010
Green Sphere + Rebecca Coffey story
No. 39 of 50 — Significant Objects v3
[Bid on this Significant Object, with story by Rebecca Coffey, here. Proceeds from this auction go to Girls Write Now.]
It was all because of what happened the Halloween she was eight. We'd had pumpkin soup and near-beer for dinner. The soup gave her gas.
But it also gave her a dream. A full moon was falling. Getting bigger and bigger as it fell, it made a wind that moved everything on earth in fast motion and that blew into Masie's brain a vision of the...
Sig Obj Author News
A couple of quick news items:
* Lydia Millet's story collection Love in Infant Monkeys was one of two runners-up for this year's Pulitzer Prize in fiction. Millet contributed excellent stories to both the first and second volumes of Significant Objects.
* Nick Rombes is typing up and mailing out chapters of Nightmare Trails at Knifepoint, his serialized novel-in-progress. He's also for Nightmare Trails, with proceeds going to support Detroit ProLiteracy. Rombes' story
April 14, 2010
Star Can + Scott Boylston story
Object No. 38 of 50 -- Significant Objects v3
[Bid on this Significant Object, with story by Scott Boylston, here. Proceeds from this auction go to Girls Write Now.]
It's not nearly as kinky as it sounds. I mean, jokes are meant to tweak reality a little, after all, right? Anyone might have done the same thing just for kicks, if they'd only open themselves up to the creative moment. And, really, if they can't, then they're drips, and they can go piss off, plain and simple.
I can't remember...
