Love (Emotion)

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 10, 2021

‘I Would Give Anything to Hold Their Hands Again’

A husband and wife find a way to talk to their young sons about an unspeakable event. It could have been any January day — the […]
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 […]
November 26, 2021

Swimming Upstream in Heels and Skinny Pants

If I were a salmon, I would die for my child. As a human being, I wish I could have. I can’t stop thinking about salmon. […]
November 23, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Forced Cinderella to Scrub the Stage Floor’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Old Roots Bearing Fruit On a brisk November morning, I found myself climbing […]