EPISODE 1311 / 07.30.26

Shannon feels the late morning sun warming her face as she basks in the brilliance of her own plan.

It won’t be long now. Sabrina Gage will return home from the store, probably humming some stupid song to herself like she always does. Shannon will wander into the house just in time to notice the faint smell of gas.

“Sabrina,” she’ll say nervously. “What’s that smell? Did you leave the stove on?”

She smiles to herself at the concern that she’ll project into her voice. Sabrina will insist that of course she hadn’t. Shannon will gently point out the burner. Sabrina’s certainly will crumble, leaving her to wonder if she had been distracted or if she really had forgotten. Maybe this wasn’t the first time. One more reason not to trust her own mind.

Shannon grins, folding her hands behind her head. It really is the little things.

The first tremor is so subtle that she mistakes it for a truck rumbling down the street. The chair vibrates beneath her. A heartbeat later, the ground lurches hard enough to throw her forward.

“What the–“

From our 20th anniversary in 2017:

Restauranteur Bill Fisher and his wife, Paula, raised four children in the scenic Northwest town of King’s Bay, Washington. Those children — Tim, Molly, Sarah, and Jason — grew up to have lives full of intrigue, passion, danger, heartbreak, and more. Since October 1997, Footprints has been telling the uninterrupted story of the Fisher family and their friends and foes… a story told in the vein of television’s great daytime dramas… a story with no end.