Modern Love (Times Column)

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 […]
December 26, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘My First Post-Divorce Christmas’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. He’ll Be Home for Christmas! “I’ll drive; it’s 20 hours and I’ll be […]
December 19, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I’m Shrinking, but I Don’t Tell Him’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Savoring the Pain I can’t help but think of my first love’s coffee […]
December 12, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Not the Romance I’d Imagined’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Our Shared Sense of Wonder Flannel, fireplace, falling snow and frosty windows. The […]
December 5, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘The Unspoken Question Between Us’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Shelves for Memories The shelves we bought in August, meant to hold memories […]
December 5, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘The Unspoken Question Between Us’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Shelves for Memories The shelves we bought in August, meant to hold memories […]
November 28, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘We’d Lost the American Dream’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. A New Dream When we lost our apartment, my job and your nest […]
November 21, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘It’s a Rom-Com Opening, Baby!’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. The One Where Our Groceries Cost the Same Trader Joe’s, West Hollywood. “Your […]
November 14, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Don’t Marry Your Boyfriend’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. The Psychic’s Stare Octobers ago, I crossed a psychic’s door. She examined me, […]