...* in which the reason Katy Carr’s Cousin Helen never married is that she is only pretending to be an invalid. In fact she spends all day on the sofa resting because she spends most nights as chief instructress in “Mistress Helena’s School of Pain”, which she and her nurse run in the basement. Alec’s wife is fully aware of this, which is why she is not perturbed by her husband’s continued mooning ...

Meditation

...gym. I was lying on the floor. My heart still pounding, I started to think. “Did I flew and came back? Did I achieve my goal?” My head feels light. My mind is still clear. I think I did. The instructress helped me get up from the floor. Smiling, she told me after I started to sway slowly, as if in a trance, that I began snoring. After that I fell flat on the floor. I couldn’t believe it! The nerve...