Modern Love (Times Column)

September 19, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘To My Surprise, This Charming Man Began to Cry’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Embraced by Haiti A man with a charming accent was fixing my uncharming […]
September 12, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Know Something She Doesn’t’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Cupid Launches a Cannonball While the other Ph.D. students chatted — dryly — […]
September 5, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘All Women Are Psychic’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Cashier Connection I pull up to the neon-lit drive-through past midnight. The young […]
August 29, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Now That We’re Married, What’s Your Name?’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Solitary Sunset Solitary on my postage stamp porch, I wear Chanel No. 5 […]
August 22, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: Oh, August!

To celebrate this bittersweet eighth month, we present eight of our favorite summer-themed Tiny Love Stories. Between the Sunflower Stalks August in a West Virginia sunflower […]
August 8, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Take a Bath With Me’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. A Face Like Her Mother’s In the supermarket yesterday, a young woman with […]
July 25, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Gay, Dominant, Single, White, Female’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. God’s Wife We called Dad “The Answerman.” He seemed to know the answer […]
July 18, 2023

Tiny Modern Love Stories: ‘Her Smooth Leg Brushing Mine’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. An Admittedly American Girl 1969. Me, an American girl wanting a Girl Scouts […]
July 11, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Who I Was Without a Wedding Ring’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. A Portrait of Father and Son Growing up in the 1950s, I was […]
July 4, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘My Entire Body Shook With Passionate Interest’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. The Third ‘Fourth’ Is the Charm While I was dancing, another grad student […]