Chasing Dreams

April 2029 - Arcadia, North Carolina
Gates-Watson - Shelley is 40, Logan is 39, Lily is 18, James is 14

“What is this supposed to be?” Logan asks, staring at the strings of paper shapes his wife had just hung on the windows.

“It’s to celebrate Easter and spring,” Shelley tells him. “It tells people that we’re happy for the season changes and welcome them inside to join us.”

April 2029 Birthdays & Anniversaries

 

It’s Adam and Ethan’s 19th birthday and the girls decide to take them out on the town. Out on the town seems to be going to see a movie.

“You two be quiet up there,” Adam hisses at his brother. “I can’t hear the end of the movie.”

“Sorry,” Ethan says. “We lost interest halfway though the storyline.”

Busy Days

March 2029 - San Myshuno, New York
Chase family - Edwin is 39, Darcy is 36, Jackson is 11, Ava is 7

Working in law enforcement in San Myshuno keeps Edwin busy at times.

Adding to the Family

March 2029 - Brindleton Bay, Connecticut
Norman household: Jessica is 43, Richard is 38, Tyler is 9, Grace is 9

“I have an idea,” Tyler Norman says one morning at breakfast. “Or really, Grace has an idea.”

Grace shoots her brother a scowl across the table. “No, you promised to say it.”

“Say what?” Jessica asks her kids before they can start an argument first thing in the morning.

“That we should get a dog,” Grace says.

March 2029 Birthdays & Anniversaries

“It doesn’t seem like it’s been forty-four years,” Julie Lloyd tells William. “It seems like just yesterday we were in college, talking about spending forever together after we were done.”

“That was just yesterday,” William says, reaching up to softly rub her cheek. “You’re still as young and beautiful as you were then.”

Forever Sweethearts

February 2029 - Pine Hollow, North Carolina
Sutton family - Sinjin is 49, Audrey is 39, Beatrice is 7

Audrey is finding herself hungry these days. Starving almost. She wakes up during the night and gets a snack, but she’s still hungry for breakfast when she wakes up again later.

Not So Perfect

February 2029 - Arcadia, North Carolina
Gates Household: Nathan Gates is 39, Terri is 39, and Phoebe is 17

Phoebe can hear it starting already as she gets breakfast. She sits down at the table in the kitchen because she doesn’t need to be in the dining room with her parents.