Love (Emotion)

July 25, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Gay, Dominant, Single, White, Female’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. God’s Wife We called Dad “The Answerman.” He seemed to know the answer […]
July 21, 2023

Why My Father Called Me Son, Daughter, He, She and It

As my father lost his memory, he began to regard my gender as increasingly fluid. My father and I were in Starbucks about a year after […]
July 19, 2023

My Invisible Husband

Julia Botero, Christina Djossa and Jen Poyant and Dan Powell and Listen and follow “Modern Love”Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music ‘Our engagement was not only […]
July 18, 2023

Tiny Modern Love Stories: ‘Her Smooth Leg Brushing Mine’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. An Admittedly American Girl 1969. Me, an American girl wanting a Girl Scouts […]
July 14, 2023

My Fetish for a Second Skin

As a gay Korean American, I yearned for the privilege of being heterosexual or white. So I began wearing latex, a new skin. Growing up Korean […]
July 11, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Who I Was Without a Wedding Ring’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. A Portrait of Father and Son Growing up in the 1950s, I was […]
July 7, 2023

Kissing a Fellow Janitor Amid the Trash

After two assaults, I sought healing on the coldest, driest and windiest continent on earth. On my first day of work in Antarctica, I found a […]
July 5, 2023

The Gift of Holiday Men

Julia Botero, Christina Djossa, Elyssa Dudley and Jen Poyant and Dan Powell and Listen and follow Modern LoveApple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon Music ‘That was […]
July 4, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘My Entire Body Shook With Passionate Interest’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. The Third ‘Fourth’ Is the Charm While I was dancing, another grad student […]
June 30, 2023

Was I Married to a Stranger?

I thought I knew my husband of 20 years. I didn’t — and still don’t. When the lockdown started in March 2020, my husband and I […]