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Handmade Fiction

Handmade Fiction is a project that surprises people with free, limited-edition, handcrafted gifts. We take something that exists only within fiction and make it real. We buy copies of the works that inspired each item and re-sell them online at a financial loss, without any indication that they include a prop. If you know you want one of these, you can’t have one.

Freer's Phoneless Cord

Limited to 10 sets — Infinite Jest, Page 638, by David Foster Wallace: “Freer’s from Inland Maryland, originally, his family’s riches nouveaux, a family Amway business that hit big in the B.S. ’90s with his now-deceased father’s invention of a pet-rockish novelty that was ubiquitous in stockings for two straight pre-millennial xmases — the so-called phoneless cord. Stice dimly recalls his old man getting a phoneless cord in his stocking, ostentatiously packaged, on Ortho’s first recallable xmas, back in Partridge KS, the old man cocking an eyebrow and the bride laughing and slapping her big knee. Nobody now much even gets the remembered gag, though, so few things needing cords anymore. But Freer’s old man had invested his windfall shrewdly.”

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