A Doll's House || Open
More than anything she loved the smell of freshly cut flowers.
She was in the back yard clipping some from the garden, listening to her son as he played in the sand box but she paused to smell the peonies. She shook them for any bugs hiding in the petals and crouched to snip some lilacs next when she found something under the bushes. Initially she thought it was Calvin's toy. Something that had rolled under there and gotten lost. Upon closer inspection, she noticed it was a porcelain doll, but each of the limbs had been snapped off at jagged edges. The worst part was discovering the head.
One of its eyes had been smashed in and the mouth had been cracked apart. Its yellow hair was matted with dirt and so were the clothes left on the body. She wrinkled her nose and called across the fence to her neighbor's back yard. "Excuse me. Excuse me! Did you put this in my yard?" Maggie was willing to give benefit of the doubt, but it didn't make her any less disturbed to find a porcelain doll smashed to bits under her flowers. Strangely though, she noticed while staring at the pieces, it looked so oddly like her.
