By: Hilary Greenbaum

I now own more photographs of other peoples’ families than I do of my own

By: Carlo Rotella

A magic finger that can make an electrified plank sing.

By: Toni Schlesinger

I want a cloud that I can live on all the time and never have to leave.

By: Niela Orr

The Questions’ name is a cheeky reference to Iverson’s nom de play, “The Answer.”

By: Katrina Brown Hunt

I kept waiting for that moment to be spooked, see a shadow, hear a voice.

By: Matthew Sharpe

All pairs of glasses in the moment of their loss or destruction are the same.

By: Kenneth Goldsmith

This sock represents everything I aspire to in the world.

By: Christina Couch

Leech convinced villain after villain to give up their evil ways.

By: Matthew Daniel

I look the Martian in the eyes for longer than I should.

By: Katya Apekina

I miss living along the Mississippi — the swampy air, the damp earth, that artery of water.

By: Friederike Paetzold

Dreamily greeting you as if from an undersea trench…

By: Ramona Lyons

I’m not into any other “cute” little animal-shaped things.

By: Beth Lisick

It presides over us, thinking it’s in stealth mode.

By: Josh Foer

The poor suicide’s face has become “the most kissed” of all time.

By: PROJECT:OBJECT

Kicking off a series of 25 true stories about objects with which we are obsessed.