New on Nerve.com: a short fiction piece called "Mannequins," by Susannah Breslin of Reverse Cowgirl's blog:
Her boyfriend was on his computer all the time. He would go home after work, and he would sit down at his computer and tie up his phone line, so that when she wanted to call him, and tell him that she needed something, or that she loved him, or that she was having the hardest day of her life ever yet, he was always unavailable.
One day, while he was at work, she went to his house and logged onto his computer. She discovered he had been going through listings of mannequins for sale on eBay. He had earmarked pages of angry-looking brunettes, small Asians with black bangs, and alarmed-seeming blondes without legs. Her boyfriend, it appeared, liked mannequins with pretty faces and missing appendages, or great bodies and no heads.
And, from what she could tell, he was only one of an entire group of men who spent all their time buying and selling mannequins to one another online.
