Modern Love (Times Column)

August 16, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Want a Divorce’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. ‘Pluck, Bandage, Smile’ My childhood summers were measured in splinters. Gnarled docks and […]
August 9, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘A Couple With Nothing to Talk About’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Our Silent Fire One recent summer evening, my husband and I were sitting […]
August 2, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Fond of the Little Fellow’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Paved Paradise I didn’t want our first kiss to be in a parking […]
July 26, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: Summer Loving

To celebrate this sticky seventh month, we present seven of our favorite summer-themed Tiny Love Stories. When Lies Turn Into Prophecies A very drunk man won’t […]
July 19, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Just Like Me, but Hotter’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Among the Ivy After a terrible year (I was attacked in my home […]
July 12, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Plenty of Parents Don’t Like Their Children’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. I Know Which “You’ll know when he’s ‘the one’,” my mother said. She […]
July 5, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘If You Decide to Flirt With a Stranger’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. My Advice If you decide to flirt with a stranger by sliding into […]
June 28, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘We Should Drop the Charade’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. That’s One Way to Propose Although they knew we were living together, my […]
June 21, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Get So Weird Near Girls’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. My Wise Younger Self I flew home from Berlin to Vancouver after two […]
June 14, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘A Woman Who Had Only Dated Men’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Seen by a 7-Year-Old Transaction complete, the little girl grips her bag of […]