Lio by Mark Tatulli for December 07, 2019

wouldn’t a mortician and/or surgeon want a "Li’l Autopsy Pal?

You shouldn’t have included the batteries, Lio!

Doesn’t mobility detract from the product’s realism in this case?

nice try, Lio!

I hate it when that happens…

You wind it up and it operates on batteries!

I’d rethink that gift, she may put it to use on you. Look up “vivisection”.

The ideal present for… Well, there’s gotta be someone for whom it would be perfect. Eva Rose? Maybe, maybe not.

I thought he’d send her a lobotomy robot to give her the surgery that might make her love him.

She’ll name it an assault on her and reprogram it to do an autopsy on Liō.

You should not have wound it up, Lio, or pressed the ON button, or whatever you did!

And it’s a rather odd gift for Eva Rose, even though she has an interest in autopsies…

She’ll love it!