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February 6, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘You Are Meant to Be With a Woman’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Not-So-Secret Ingredient I eat an egg, over-easy, every morning. In the summer, I […]
January 30, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘He’s a Minimalist; I’m a Hoarder’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Honey, I Got You Nothing! For our 12th anniversary, I gave my boyfriend […]
January 23, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Looking for a Casual Fling’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. 365 Dips On a Cape Cod beach last January, I braced for my […]
January 16, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Something Told Me to Stay’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. A Three-Decade Disagreement Vietnam and New York, our worlds were far apart. Camp […]
January 9, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Remember How Obnoxious I Was?’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Calling It What It Is I’d been a disobedient teenager, eager to rebel […]
January 2, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘It All Began So Innocently’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Falling Upward It all began so innocently: snow falling at dusk, a crackling […]
December 26, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘My First Post-Divorce Christmas’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. He’ll Be Home for Christmas! “I’ll drive; it’s 20 hours and I’ll be […]
December 19, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I’m Shrinking, but I Don’t Tell Him’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Savoring the Pain I can’t help but think of my first love’s coffee […]
December 12, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Not the Romance I’d Imagined’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Our Shared Sense of Wonder Flannel, fireplace, falling snow and frosty windows. The […]
December 5, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘The Unspoken Question Between Us’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Shelves for Memories The shelves we bought in August, meant to hold memories […]