“Look! It’s a firefly,” she said, as a smile crept across her face. “Let’s try to catch it.”

He laughed, “It’s just a firefly.”

“No, it’s not. It’s summer and we should catch it before it gets away,” she said.

“You can’t catch summer,” he laughed again.

“I can try.”

Shannon Flynn is a freelance writer living and writing the dream in Columbus, Ohio.