Real objects featuring in your stories

In my Aunt Tina series the MMC serves in the Coast Guard as I did, and is stationed aboard the same cutter.
 
All over the place in mine, Em! Especially the road trip story. Real vehicles such as the SUV the MMC drives in the Barstow series, though I didn’t specifically say it was a 2021 Ford Expedition. I did, however, mention a manual-transmission Honda Element the FMC drives. Also, real places, real objects we have around the house, even down to the police scanner gathering dust in our garage! And two real dogs.

Gosh.
 
It's rare that I write an object into a story unless I've either owned it or have a close friend who has. I can't write convincingly about something if I haven't used it at some point in my life unless I do a ton of research. If I try to wing it, I get comments that tell me I was wrong along with a couple of paragraphs to set me straight.
 
While I didn't mention any specific item, the character of "Tom" in my Jenna series has a bunch of Star Wars and Marvel collectibles in his apartment.

Oh, and Jake from The Deal With Lara owns an electric drum kit he bashes out on from time to time.
 
Every cafe I've been in just about, a bright red car I owned once, the overnight train I travelled on many times, my tube amp hi-fi gear, the houses I've lived in, repeatedly. Everything in my landscape or in the places I depict is reality based. Except for Titan, I've never been there.
 
A 1965 Ford Galaxie 500 with a three on the tree (three speed manual transmission with the gear shifter on the steering column.)

A 1980 Chevy Blazer (not Bronco. Sigh. A different cousin had the Bronco.)

Dachshunds.

An indoor banana tree in a pot made from half of an old whiskey barrel.
 
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My boyfriend’s camera made it into Cocksuckers. What inanimate objects that you own, or know, have appeared in your stories?

Em
I did include a motorcycle in one of my stories that I owned.
I also included a ride that I completed many times in the same story...
I used to race motorcycles, and in a separate story included references to actual races...

Cagivagurl.
 
Not published here, but I've written a series of Sword & Sorcery stories featuring a large black cat I used to have.
 
Various houses I've lived in or known, the First Out queer cafe and Flirt women's sauna night (Meaningless Kisses), Adrian's whisky collection and fridge contents have been modelled on mine, bondage equipment and sex toys at home or in clubs are ones I've encountered.

I've made up various scientific journals, though.
 
I have this black hunting knife that made it into one of my stories. The thing is rather intimidating as an object, yet I use it for kitchen work because it's damn sharp and resilient.
 
In Welcome to Austin, The MMC drives a 1965 Mustang, just like the one of my father's I learned to drive in.
I assume it wasn't a convertible? My dad had a 1968 Pontiac Bonnevile which shows up (or is at least mentioned) in a few stories. It was olive-green like this one, except his had the body rust which cars in the the snow-belt (lots of road salt) were prone to. Yes, they did offer a convertible version back then but those weren't common.

https://auta5p.eu/katalog/pontiac/bonneville_1968_01.jpg
 
Most of the real-life (owned and digested) items that show up in my stories are books: Moby Dick, Kierkegaard's Either/Or, etc.

The main standout exception is a pair of 42DCNF Weber carburetors mentioned in one tale, to be featured more prominently in a WIP.
 
The main standout exception is a pair of 42DCNF Weber carburetors

OMG what a flashback. I had a car about 40 years ago with four 40DCNF carbs that I meticulously rebuilt and re-jetted. I think I still have the sync’ing tool in my toolkit, although being a musician I usually sync’ed them by ear. I recall being pretty good at it - I don’t think I ever found the top end after re-jetting. Gawd, did that car fly!
 
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