Modern Love (Times Column)

March 12, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘When Mom Left’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Repaying Grandma’s Visits When Mom left when I was 4, I felt incomplete. […]
March 5, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Why Did I Choose Her?’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. A Crush Since Day 1 In 1997 I wanted a new tax guy. […]
February 27, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘She Noticed His Stylish Shoes’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. A Surprise Suitor 1965, Calcutta. My 22-year-old mother had rejected several promising suitors […]
February 13, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘The Middle of a Post-Divorce Breakdown’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. A Sweetheart Reminder on Valentine’s Day “Hello?” Mom repeated into the phone. The […]
February 6, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘You Are Meant to Be With a Woman’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Not-So-Secret Ingredient I eat an egg, over-easy, every morning. In the summer, I […]
January 30, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘He’s a Minimalist; I’m a Hoarder’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Honey, I Got You Nothing! For our 12th anniversary, I gave my boyfriend […]
January 23, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Looking for a Casual Fling’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. 365 Dips On a Cape Cod beach last January, I braced for my […]
January 16, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Something Told Me to Stay’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. A Three-Decade Disagreement Vietnam and New York, our worlds were far apart. Camp […]
January 9, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Remember How Obnoxious I Was?’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Calling It What It Is I’d been a disobedient teenager, eager to rebel […]
January 2, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘It All Began So Innocently’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Falling Upward It all began so innocently: snow falling at dusk, a crackling […]