Modern Love (Times Column)

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 […]
June 27, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Left Any Room She Entered’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Silent Empathy You were a businessman seated next to me on a flight. […]
June 20, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Wore an Orange Wig’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. A Rare Chance My oldest child and I drove from Massachusetts to New […]
June 13, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Between Black and White Boys’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Boyhood Memory, 64 Years Later Indiana, summer 1959: It was my first season […]
June 6, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Watched Him Kiss Someone New’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Half Full or Half Empty? I called him “Cup Guy” because in every […]