The Comfy Chair

Since authorial intent is another place where we don't usually go, here, I won't speculate as to what Helen's motives were, but I will say I enjoyed reading both stories in a two-sides-of-the-coin kind of way and took something different (and enjoyable) from both of them. Some readers are going to prefer one permutation of the universe over the other, obviously, tastes being what they are. I don't think enjoying one over the other invalidates either.