--- title: "A Husband Who Doesn't Come Home — Jobic Chakalisa" description: "The first lights falling across the evening sky are beautiful.\n\nBy morning, flights are being grounded. GPS positions are unreliable. Card payments fail withou…" canonical: "https://publica.now/creators/jobic-chakalisa/works/a-husband-who-doesnt-come-home" --- Literary # A Husband Who Doesn't Come Home [ ![Jobic Chakalisa](https://fls-a13cb2d7-1b3e-4883-a0bd-297afd110a11.367be3a2035528943240074d0096e0cd.r2.cloudflarestorage.com/creators/01kz053q4stf0m732p504r1325/avatars/01KZ056MDJC0KRKXEGGK3E1JPG.png?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=d29ce3bb571c165c97a702f29f7aee93%2F20260913%2Fauto%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20260913T214757Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-Signature=7b0be8c05e9c89e4f24567b3b37c8e07e835fe0b3bf277a112c71ab0f92650b2) Jobic Chakalisa ](https://publica.now/creators/jobic-chakalisa) Follow Jobic Chakalisa is a prolific fiction writer and author known for fast-paced thrillers and dramatic novels like Target: Tehran, North Korea's Secret Weapon, and A Dragon for a Debt. His works span mul... $4.99 [ Sign in to buy ](https://publica.now/access?redirect=%2Fcheckout%2Fa-husband-who-doesnt-come-home) Secure payment on Stripe. publica.now never sees your card. Share Link copied Format epub Published Sep 02, 2026 Rating No reviews yet ![A Husband Who Doesn't Come Home](https://fls-a13cb2d7-1b3e-4883-a0bd-297afd110a11.367be3a2035528943240074d0096e0cd.r2.cloudflarestorage.com/works/01m1hx3045h5knhrzz6mz7vfw4/covers/01M1HX30E32K50GSH5QZQ4MKTW.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=d29ce3bb571c165c97a702f29f7aee93%2F20260913%2Fauto%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20260913T214757Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-Signature=5ebd4f89839811dcfcee66dc21e6d73ee47b2fe6aa85606f24b06ef397376db7) ## About this work The first lights falling across the evening sky are beautiful. By morning, flights are being grounded. GPS positions are unreliable. Card payments fail without warning. Traffic systems stop coordinating. Fuel lines stretch for blocks. Phone service works just often enough to keep people guessing. Tess Bell knows one thing: she has to get her eight-year-old daughter to Tennessee. Marnie’s father, Darren, works at a generating station hundreds of miles away. He still has power, water, and people who know how to keep critical equipment running. Tess promises Marnie she will get her there. What should be a six-hour drive becomes a journey across a country that still functions in pieces. Bridges close. Gas is rationed. Public transportation fills faster than it can move. Severe weather becomes harder to predict. Every town has different information, different shortages, and different rules. Along the way, Tess and Marnie depend on people they would never have met otherwise: a retired railroad mechanic, a cafeteria manager feeding displaced families, county workers piecing together usable routes, drivers sharing what they know, and strangers willing to give away water they may soon need themselves. But the farther Tess takes her daughter, the more difficult the promise becomes. Marnie remembers what her mother tells her. She notices every softened answer, every decision made without her, and every time an adult says something is certain when it is not. And when they finally reach Darren, Tess discovers that getting Marnie to her father was never the whole promise. UNTIL THE SKY FELL is a fast-paced near-future disaster thriller about a mother and daughter crossing a fractured America, the invisible systems modern life depends on, and what remains when certainty disappears but people still have to decide whom to trust. 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