Nurses’ carelessness maybe. She was lying motionless on her bed, as could be expected of comatose patient. But he was sure that some of those shiny rods were inserted in her pelvis and lower back. The girl looked more helpless than ever with her plastered leg swaying like a drunken sailor. He had seen her once but desperately wanted to see her again, a fact that he found quite disturbing. After cleaning the toilet, Simon headed toward the balcony, intending to smoke a cigarette there. The hospital attendant, a young man called Simon, had just finished mopping the corridor and was now resting on a wooden couch. Not that her body could be called “living” anymore. She was lying motionless on her bed, as could be expected of comatose patient. Moonlight was bathing the girl’s calm face with yellowish light. But his penis was already pulsing like a rabbit’s heart. Now, for him, the comatose girl was reduced to an adorable foot that existed by itself, apart from the living body. He had seen her once but desperately wanted to see her again, a fact that he found
