01-JUN-2018
how much is the...
" How much is the dress in the window ? "
29-JAN-2017
model 5b
This model came with a digitized automated voice response unit. In other words, in a limited way, she could talk. Every year they get closer.
she can be yours
I understand, I really do. You have long imagined that it would be cozy to come home and have Marilyn Monroe waiting by the crackling fireside.
Barb model
If you click on the picture, she gets larger.
18-JUL-2013
not quite home
Life in a department store is never quite like home.
27-JUN-2013
after hours
For the most part, the department store was pretty dark at night. Sometimes Cora would go up and down the elevator to pass the time.
09-JUL-2012
S.L.I.E.
SLIE: Sensual-lips-imperfect-eyebrows. We hold very high standards for our fine artificial women.
03-NOV-2012
Jenny at 5
Jennifer had been made, not born. Never had a mother, sisters or brothers. She was just property, belonging to some funky store manager.
15-JUL-2012
Keiko
From out of the East, high tech adaptations.
24-APR-2012
Pam
Pamela was allowed to come to life for three days and three nights every three years. Try as she might, she could not erase the tell-tale line between arm and torso. She tried makeup and even colored putty.
diffident
Shy, retiring, these two stood together in the same display window. When their three year rotation came around, they took the days together.
03-NOV-2012
womannequin
Properly styled, the hair may cover the torso creases.
04-NOV-2012
Monica's choice
Very late, one moonless night, the Watchers came to Monica and offered her a choice. She could remain perfect and nearly eternally young, or... or she could become a real human female, with all the finite vicissitudes. She took two minutes to make up her mind.
reclining in a display window
beautiful: yet so alone
Today I broke 1,500,000,hits on PBASE. The womannequins pushed me over the top.
05-NOV-2012
weeps
The very first rule for the womanennquins, the primary enforcer, if you will, is that they are never to weep, to shed a tear.
Christine among the thinest lines
left behind
Left behind in the store display window. What thoughts were in Madeline's mind as she remained still hour after hour, even when the shop closed for the night ?