Telling a Story

Last week I told a story in front of an audience in the Story League Competition Series at Busboys and Poets.  I’ve read in front of more people, I’ve definitely spoken in front of more people, but this was a level of anxiety unparalleled.  Maybe it was the absence of the security of a podium and a page to read from or maybe it was the fact of the three judges sitting behind me (looking decidedly unimpressed, per the photograph).  My leg was literally shaking uncontrollably.  Inside my boot.  Shaking in my boots.

Whatever that feeling was, I’m conquering it.