Modern Love (Times Column)

September 13, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Irritated by the Drama of Her Effort’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Best Husband Ever My husband and I are both teachers. On our 10th […]
September 6, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘My Mother Fell for Her Too’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Glorious Gloria Pregnant with number four, I moved from a trailer to an […]
August 30, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Was the World’s Best Kisser’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. The Cardinal’s Song He left the bar of soap upside down in its […]
August 23, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Rewrote My Identity’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Send the Old Stuffie I moved about 1,600 miles with four suitcases filled […]
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 […]