Dating and Relationships

January 4, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Chased Her Shamelessly’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. A Handwritten Reminder My friend’s annual Christmas card was addressed to “The Perkins […]
December 31, 2021

Tiny Love Stories for the New Year: Fresh Starts and New Beginnings

This week, instead of the usual essay, we’re ushering in the new year with eight Tiny Love Stories about fresh starts. Now It’s All Fresh Fish […]
December 24, 2021

‘The Nutcracker’ and the Sex Tape

A holiday story about passion and other adhesives (featuring an ugly Christmas sweater). I was working backstage at a production of “The Nutcracker” that was being […]
December 21, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Nobody Knows I’m a Lesbian’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Our Rescue Game The year our father left, I’d thrash around on my […]
December 21, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Nobody Knows I’m a Lesbian’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Our Rescue Game The year our father left, I’d thrash around on my […]
December 17, 2021

A Love Language Spoken With Hands

For a deaf man used to broken promises, a video message delivers a fresh start. On a gloomy January day, my phone lit up: Will had […]
December 14, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘A Child I’ll Never Meet’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. A Poem in My Pocket Walking home, I stopped before a poet for […]
December 7, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Felt Desire Overshadow Fear’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. What I Now See An aging expatriate in France, I recently started sending […]
December 3, 2021

Was She Just Another Nicely Packaged Pain Delivery System?

I had been burned too badly to believe in love. And yet, believe I did. I was 67. She was 67. Knowing as much as she […]
November 30, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Your Husband Will Probably Leave You Now’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Never Mind the Naysayers “My mother says your husband will probably leave you […]