Prudish Mercedes King, a devotee and advocate of the neo-Victorian revival as well as a true Graecophile, is approached by her father’s graduate student about participating in a certain experiment.
Let me at least tell you what the experiment is. You can faint after I’m finished.

Variants

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  1. “Lost in Translation” by Rosel George Brown, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1959.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Rosel George Brown