An encounter of the dull kind

In wandering around I ran across a great little sci-fi short story I thought I’d pass on, if you like it:

“So what you’re saying is,” Brithpth said slowly and distinctly, “is that you eat with the same orifice you breathe with?”

“Yup,” I replied.

My guest did that thing again. He paused, in the way that a glacier might be said to pause. For a slow ten-count, he was perfectly still.

“How do you keep from clogging the tube?” he asked for the third time in an hour.

Let me go back.

[A Brief and Surprisingly Dull Encounter with an Extraterrestrial Life Form]

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