Modern Love (Times Column)

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 […]
June 7, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Joy Waits for No One’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. To Care and Carry I checked the time as we neared the airport, […]
May 31, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Was 20 and He Was 60’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. His Hand on My Thigh “Do you hear it?” the midwife asked. Holding […]
May 24, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘You Never Call Me Anymore’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Sweet and Sour August, 1990. Walking along the Northern Ireland coast, we pass […]
May 17, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Begged Him for a Sign’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. My Sweetie We’ve endured lockdowns in Shanghai since March 2022, surfacing with just […]
May 10, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘We Discovered Pleasure’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Making it Official (Again) “OK girls, here’s the scoop,” my mother texted. “Dad […]