He sits down on the end of the park bench she occupies and turns to her. She smiles. “My throat is sore,” he rasps.
Read MoreAuthor: Lee Marc Stein
Lee Marc Stein lives in East Setauket, NY. His poetry has appeared in Blast Furnace, Message in a Bottle, Miller's Pond, Subliminal Interiors, and The Write Room. His book Whispers in the Galleries features ekphrastic poems. His stories have been published in Fictional Café, Bartleby Snopes, nicollsroad, and Write Place at the Write Time. He led workshops at Stony Brook University's Lifelong Learning program on modern masters of the novel.