He didn't say "I love you" very much. None of them did, but he said it maybe more than some of the others. Probably that's why I decided to tell him myself, rather than let him get the worst off somebody else's tongue. Someone was going to tell him anyway, and I'd nearly told him so many times before.
Thomas McConnell’s work has appeared in the Connecticut Review, the Cortland Review, Calabash, Yemassee, the Emrys Journal, the Charleston Post & Courier, and Writing Macao, among other publications, and won prizes in the Porter Fleming Awards for Fiction and Essay, the South Carolina Fiction Project, and the Hardagree Award for Fiction.
His collection of stories, A Picture Book of Hell and Other Landscapes, was published by Texas Tech University Press in 2005 and nominated for the PEN/Bingham Award and the John Gardner Award for Short Fiction.