Love Is Orange, Love Is Red

I wrote this story for a flash-fiction writing contest with other members of CodexWriters.com. We each had to write a story of no more than 750 words in a weekend--each weekend for five weeks. This story was my entry for week three. It was based on the following prompt: "Everyone in the world has developed the same psychic power (i.e. telepathy, pyrokinesis, etc). How does the world change?" One of my best-received stories that Daily Science Fiction has published is "Buy You a Mockingbird," which was only about 350 words long. I decided to try to write something similarly short, and to focus on the relationship of two people as the world changed. I picked empathic reading as the psychic power, because it seemed like knowing how another person felt would affect the relationship. And then I wondered what would happen if people could sense someone else's emotions, but couldn't properly recognize them because they experience emotions differently.