Love You, Miss You, Goodbye Forever
by Timothy Boudreau
 
Love You, Miss You, Goodbye Forever is a short fiction collection by Timothy Boudreau that's thematically divided into the three sections of its title, and over 30 stories, explores its characters' quest for love, light, and connection.
 
136 pages.
Perfectbound paperback
ISBN: 979-8-89692-794-5
To be published: March 3, 2026
 
Timothy Boudreau’s work has been nominated for Best of the Net and a Pushcart Prize, and included in Best Microfiction. In addition to Love You, Miss You, Goodbye Forever, his collection Stepdad on the Dance Floor and novel All We Knew Were Our Hearts are due from Unsolicited Press in 2026 and 2027, respectively. He is an editor at The Loveliest Review. Find him on BlueSky at @tcboudreau or at timothyboudreau.com.
 
Praise for Love You, Miss You, Goodbye Forever
 
"'Maybe they think there are happier times back then, something magical before everything started to go wrong.' In this remarkable collection, Timothy Boudreau grapples with the spaces in and around that moment where everything starts to go wrong. These sharply whittled stories present ever-shifting microcosms of lives teetering on the brink of change. Here, characters yearn and desire and are subsequently limited or rebuked by both the physical and psychological conditions that define them. Loss and illness and sexual awakening, Love You, Miss You, Goodbye Forever is a true testament to the way we exist in our bodies: how we are at once confined and liberated through our corporeal realities. These stories do what the very finest fictions can do: remind us of what it is to be human in all its beauty and pain and relentless complication."
 
— Allison Field Bell, author of All That Blue and Bodies of Other Women
 
"A remarkably well-crafted and memorable collection, shifting effortlessly from humor to poignant heartbreak, that gently prompts the reader to ponder intriguing questions as complex characters face love, illness, loss, and death. With a compelling intensity, these stories ask how well we can ever really know each other. The strange and often funny intimacies, the lingering regrets, and the missed connections are the stuff of real life, rendered on the page with precise detail and unflinching honesty."
 
— Heather Bell Adams, author of Maranatha Road 
 
"Love You, Miss You, Goodbye Forever is unapologetic, filled with characters who confront, who entice, who repel, who fold us into their lives. You will have no choice but to be carried away by these expertly crafted narratives until the very last word."
 
— Melissa Llanes Brownlee, author of Bitter Over Sweet and Hard Skin