Delivery: Marta F
[It doesn't come as a gift from santa for the holidays, because this is more than that. But it comes, nonetheless, in a nondescript cardboard box with no return-addressee.
Inside, packed lovingly in tissue paper, is a porcelain doll. Delicate with dark hair and a pressed little dress, she looks quite comfortable in the nest of tissue that makes up her bed.
It's only when she's moved that the truth becomes clear, that the image is shattered. She comes apart in pieces, chunks of porcelain, limbs detaching, clattering against one another with any shift.