2050: The Year of Promise and Hope

The dystopia prediction of 2040 yields to the power of love and global community

Note from the author: When my story Message in a Bottle from 2040 was published, many of my friends and a few other readers let me know that in this time of coronavirus and political uncertainty, a story so dark and dystopic, while understood, was, bluntly put by one friend, a “downer.” I thought about that and other helpful comments and went back to the keyboard to write this sequel, a story of hope and caring. I do believe we are on an arc of peril in 2020, but that does not mean we cannot bend that arc toward righteousness and humanity if we put our minds, hearts, and shoulders to the task. JM

Dear 2020 America

Like father, like daughter

My name is Lucy, and I am the daughter of the man who sent you a message in a bottle from 2040. His message was filled with the history and images of political malfeasance and ignorance, rebellion, hatred, distrust, international conflict, plots, and cabals that shifted the tectonic plates of humanity in the mid-to late-2020s and persisted for a quarter of a century. Those lost years marked America’s failure to thrive as a free republic.