Modern Love (Times Column)

November 20, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Humor to Counter Despair’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Brian Rea Haunting in Our Family History “You are a ghost,” he slurred, […]
November 13, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Our Unspoken Sibling Sign’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Brian Rea ‘Doing’ Nice Sitting between my little brothers at church, I would […]
November 6, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘When Two Fantasies Collide’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Brian Rea Life Circles Back A nightly routine, beginning in kindergarten: I laid […]
October 9, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Filled With Warm, Sugary Feelings’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Brian Rea Taking the Bitter With the Sweet On a recent night after […]
October 2, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘She Literally Ran From the Room’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Brian Rea Yearning for Tourmaline As a child, I was given rocks and […]
September 18, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘This Quiet, Handsome Cowboy Would Never Notice’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Brian Rea Mac’s Best Riding Pard Mac’s spurs lightly jingled as he walked […]
September 3, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘A Drunk Dial Followed by Sporadic G-Chats ’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Brian Rea The Place He Swore He’d Left Behind It was 2007, and […]
August 20, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘It Was Scary, the Good Kind’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Brian Rea This, This Is Easy I left a Christian cult. Tried Hinge, […]
August 6, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Slunk Into Will’s Room and Under His Sheets’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Under His Canopy of Fish During our junior year of college, Will taped […]
July 30, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Make No Apologies’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Love Means Never Saying Sorry “I’m in love with a woman,” my mother […]