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“Long thoracic gives you winged scapula because serratus anterior holds the scapula against the thoracic wall. Axillary gives you deltoid weakness and sensory loss over the lateral shoulder. Upper trunk, C5-C6, gives you waiter’s tip. Lower trunk, C8-T1, gives you claw hand. Don’t memorize the lesion first.”

Maggie: ok wow

I stare. The reaction hits me in the body first, my cock rising midway, irritating me.

What the hell is wrong with you?

I exhale slowly and pick up the phone.

Me: Did that help?

The typing dots appear. Then vanish.

Then appear again.

Maggie: Yes.

Maggie: Unfortunately.

Maggie: You have a very effective teaching voice.

Nothing explicit. Nothing even close. And my cock starts to harden.

Slowly at first, then not slowly enough.

I look down once, like my body might explain itself if confronted directly.

It does not. Christ.

I have just sent a voice note about upper trunk lesions to a woman I have never met.

Maggie: Sorry.

Maggie: That was a normal academic wow.

Maggie: Not a weird wow. Sorry for making things awkward.

I pick it up.

Me: Define weird.

The dots appear.

Disappear.

Come back.

Maggie: I will not be doing that.

Me: You said it.

Maggie: Under distress.

Me: From a voice note?

Maggie: From your voice note, yes.

I still. The kitchen is cold, but my skin is not.