i wish i could share the full pictures here, but for mother's day, the prettiest doll bared its body to me as a slab of meat. it sat so patiently, mesmerized, while i mapped out its organs, pressure points, major veins and arteries, telling it what i would do to each organ when i had it out - squeeze the bladder to make it piss, manually inflate its lungs and pump its heart, fuck its aorta - but the best part was having it sit so still and perfect while i took the scalpel it put together for me to the meat cuts i had outlined and labeled on its body - shank, brisket, ribs, tenderloin. it whimpered and giggled as the blood dripped down its arms, thighs, chest, as i told it the best way to roast the different cuts of meat. and a week later, my mother's day present is still healing, still a reminder all over her body of why getting close to a taxidermist with a lot of information about how to use each part of the body is dangerous.