Love (Emotion)

September 19, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘To My Surprise, This Charming Man Began to Cry’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Embraced by Haiti A man with a charming accent was fixing my uncharming […]
September 15, 2023

Pinned Under the Bodies of Men

I thought being sexually bold was a game I was allowed to play. I had no idea of the punishment that awaited me — or the […]
September 12, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Know Something She Doesn’t’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Cupid Launches a Cannonball While the other Ph.D. students chatted — dryly — […]
September 8, 2023

Who Is Trusted to Have a Child?

As a married gay man and an emergency pediatrician, I continue to wrestle with expectations of having a ‘traditional’ family life. A few years ago, while […]
September 5, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘All Women Are Psychic’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Cashier Connection I pull up to the neon-lit drive-through past midnight. The young […]
September 1, 2023

Why I Dress (and Act) Like a Man

Tired of being deferential to men in my relationships, I decided to create my own drag king persona. Slow moving, slow talking, with a melancholy sense […]
August 29, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Now That We’re Married, What’s Your Name?’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Solitary Sunset Solitary on my postage stamp porch, I wear Chanel No. 5 […]
August 25, 2023

Putting All My Eggs in the Boyfriend Basket

As my friends left college for exciting jobs and law school, I went to Mexico for a guy. Ten months out of college, I was sitting […]
August 22, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: Oh, August!

To celebrate this bittersweet eighth month, we present eight of our favorite summer-themed Tiny Love Stories. Between the Sunflower Stalks August in a West Virginia sunflower […]
August 18, 2023

Out of the Closet and Into the Garden

My Jamaican mother’s hopes for life in America did not include me being gay. So how would I ever bloom? I came out to my mother […]