Advance To 2035

By Irene Pierce Dunn

Imagine a world where wars have ended, and all the babies being born are mysteriously born healers. This is the world that Brenda Rivera shares a slice of her life as she goes about her activities in the year 2035. She is a spunky, intelligent social worker in charge of some of these extraordinary children. As her life unfolds, she encounters renewed hope, clash of purposes with a famous chess grand master, intrigues with a building manager, and romance. Enter Brenda's world in the year 2035!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: May 3, 2019
• ISBN: 9781644925232

Book preview

Brenda Rivera arrived at the Family Service Center and pressed her thumb onto the gel-like DNA reader. Her identity established in a matter of nanoseconds; she proceeded toward the apartment facing the atrium. The night was a crisp October evening. Brenda’s shift started at 9:00 p.m. The year, 2035.

She traveled with the swoosh of the hydro lift to the fourth floor to report for her social work assignment. Her unit was a gorgeous, high-ceiling three-bedroom apartment where the view of the atrium caught her breath. Out there, shielded by an ultraviolet (UV) bubble atop the twenty-story structure, was an area that afforded the best for the children. The famous grandmaster Thomas Irving, now fifty-six years old, was giving a simultaneous chess match to enraptured contestants of varying ages under eighteen. They were at stone chess tables with benches on opposite sides. The center covered four Manhattan City blocks, bordering the atrium on its rectangular shape. Two hundred tables lined the middle of the atrium. Primary colors spraying upward for beauty through laser lights served the purpose of separating the chess activities from the physical ones supplying light to the area.

Brenda gazed from the activity room window down on to a large group of elders taking fencing lessons confined by the perimeters of the pretty laser wall. Their teachers were sophisticated robots programmed to correct the moves of the elders. The rainbow glow of the laser lights picked up the aging grandmaster’s face; handsome still, his body; very well preserved, was as good as any thirty-five-year old. His six feet-and-three-inches frame, lean, and tan with an intelligent stamp on his face under the lights was awesome to Brenda’s sight. Even though she was just thirty-three and he was fifty-six, she liked a handsome man. And he was a man of renown!

The three-year old twins noisily ran into the room. Jeremiah, the social worker who worked the three to nine shift, had just waved goodbye before turning his shift over to Brenda. Lily and Jimmy started marching around giggling rambunctiously. Now children, be polite, Brenda scolded. They giggled, hollered in glee, both ran, and each grabbed one of Brenda’s legs for their own. Brenda smiled. Their love was so healing, and the love she felt for them warmed her heart.

This center built on a site near Central Park, New York City, was one of many that peppered the world. Many elders lived in the center. Indeed, they were part of the research. The center provided an alternative to elders who had come out of the many severe economic upheavals with no property of their own. The unit where Brenda reported was typical of about half the units at the center. Additionally, the center had several gymnasiums and recreation rooms for both the elders and the children. Some of the children were orphans. However, Jimmy and Lily had working parents who loved them very much. They would come for their children on weekends and gave up living with them during the workweek for the advancements they knew their little ones would achieve at the center.

The children had slept all day and were ready for their art lessons. They ran for their activity paper. Thanks to the awareness of people before them, they still had paper. It was much too valuable now for businesses to use. However, with the advent of hydropower, electronics had become a very reliable source of data storage, and business functioned in a practically paperless manner. Paper was much too expensive. Electronic money totally replaced paper money in most of the world. The only paper currency that survived at this