Our eyes lock. Instantly memories of our inside jokes, forbidden daydreams of our future, and the lingering electricity of his fingers across my skin from days ago plague me. Our love, our unity, is a crime, where “gay” is not just a slur; it’s a prison sentence.

Our façade resumes.

Kevin Barrick has written a number of flash stories, a handful of which has been published in his anthology “Creativity Brewing.” Life has been a luscious source of inspiration, giving him the material to fill countless anthologies, but he also is working on many other longer stories which are just as satisfying and unique.