It's fun and creepy to research mannequins. I love the sites that have used ones for sale: "Just one crack on this toddler's skull," like that's a real plus. Considering that other descriptive phrases include "headless" and "hangable", perhaps it is.
I am using the word research to make it clear that I'm not just googling broken naked dolls. At least it is not puppets, although I dread the day that my brain will decide that puppets are in the next story. Marionettes = nightmarish. They collapse in a buglike way, a jerky centipede/spider way, and lie there with painted garish human faces and strings and sticks, like they have been smacked with a supersized magazine.
