I got the feeling that I should have liked this story more than I actually did. It had monkeys that teleport out of a suspended bathtub, after all. But I kept finding myself having to 'rewind' my player because my mind had wandered and I'd stopped listening to the story.
Ms. Severson's reading was acceptable, though there were a couple of pronunciation choices with which I took issue, particularly "dace" for "dais", which for me needs 2 syllables.
However, there was a sound quality issue that distracted me - a kind of a background 'wawa' distortion of certain vowels that, when it has happened to me in the past, was an artifact of the conversion to MP3.
I vaguely recall that there was a bit of that in "Exhalation", too, though since I liked that story more, it distracted me less. Since that recording also came from Starship Sofa, I wonder if their original files had the problem, or if the files had to be converted somehow to a format/specification for EP's use and it was that process which introduced the problem.