One Conversation

I wasn't prepared to speak—which was the point

“Would you like to give a talk?” my teacher asked me, fifteen minutes before the next scheduled session at the event.

I froze in the headlights of the question. That was the day I learned there are over sixty types of sphincters in the human body, because every last one of them simultaneously and reflexively clenched as he made the invitation.

A wind chim…