Still, I liked a lot of the imagery, I liked the story told at the end to explain the wind, and I really liked the idea of examining how the absence of regularity (even the regularity of something feared) could effect a town. I think we all know the feeling of waiting, and that sense of being constantly on edge - to the point of exhaustion - was well explored.

I’m going to have to check out Paul Tevis’s version as well.

Nothing happens in this story, and its attempts to grab me were comparable to that of a mouse trying to grab a whale as it falls down an 89 degree angle.

I must say that given the story itself, I prefer Rajan Khanna’s low-key (maybe even melancholy) telling. The character from whose viewpoint the story is given describes himself as old, so Paul’s narration seemed a bit too… energetic. That said, I truly enjoyed the story, enough to have listened to it twice already, and enjoyed both readings. At the end, when we find out the old woman’s house was cleaned out, after her passing, “for a young couple who was moving into town,” am I the only person who thought for a second that would be the wizard’s daughter & her new lover because the events from the play were real?