The One-Eyed Man is King

The One-Eyed Man is King is a charming and witty modern fable that addresses what it means to be “normal.” In telling this tale, Carter W. Lewis has flip-flopped the plot of H.G. Wells story, “The Country of the Blind,” which recalls the fate of a sighted man who stumbles into a lost South American society story of Bendalli, a wise and charming, yet blind, thief, who breaks into the stagnant, shrouded household of Lise and her husband, who has been terminally ill for several years. A perverse kinship is formed and in an unlikely twist of fate, Bendalli opens the eyes of his hostess, bringing something to her rather than taking it away.