Orange Flecks (Short Story)
M.E. Purfield
Publisher: trash books
Summary
In the immediate future, mechanical masks the government surgically attached to a child's mouth speak for them until they turn eighteen. For Dean, the mouth mask makes it hard to kiss his girlfriend Nelly. When Dean catches Kitty the school outcast without his mask, he imagines an new future with Nelly. But there's a risk. A dangerous secret. A young adult, science fiction short story fueled with desperation and sexual repression that answers what lengths one attempts to feel their loved one's lips.