I’ve been wanting to go to a Story Slam for a while – ever since I met a guy on the train on the way from New York City to Connecticut. Nothing materialized with the guy (Damn, because he was hot as hell!), but we chatted for the entire fifty-minute ride – about my work as a writer, his work as a teacher, and our shared love of stories. “Have you ever been to a Story Slam before?” he wanted to know. I’d never even heard of a Story Slam before, and, once he explained what the