SKY KISS (short story)

Sky Kiss follows Lucy, a nurse still carrying the guilt of the night her father died when she was twelve. After finding him collapsed in his shed, Lucy grows up believing she somehow caused his death — all because of one careless joke he made moments before it happened. Twenty-seven years later, the death of an elderly patient cracks that old wound open again, pulling her back into memories of her father: his sobriety, his awkward tenderness, his music, his space movies, and the backyard telescope they once shared. When Lucy finds an old box of his things, she is drawn into a night of memory, grief, and reckoning beneath the stars. What she discovers is not a miracle, exactly, but something quieter: the truth that love can keep travelling long after a person is gone, and that a child was never meant to carry the weight of death in her small hands.