Modern Love (Times Column)

December 6, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Her Dreams of Infidelity’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Grand Gesture Gone Wrong A month into dating, Paul stood on a treehouse […]
November 29, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘The Only Way I’ll Meet a Man’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Hoping for More I worked three teaching jobs and slept in our apartment’s […]
November 22, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Broke Your Heart, You Broke My Rib’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. My Poor Succulent “Poor thing!” I said, picking up a succulent from its […]
November 15, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Why Aren’t You Married?’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Forever Intertwined My first friends were my cousins and siblings. After eating early […]
November 8, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘The Men I’ve Begged to Stay’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Across the Aisle Laura and I spent the fall of 1960 bantering about […]
November 1, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Love Drama’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. No Need to Be Anyone Else After I fell down the stairs as […]
October 25, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘We Hadn’t Made Love in Months’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Neither a Witch Nor a Princess When she was 2, my daughter pointed […]
October 18, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘A Truth I Had Tried to Ignore’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. My Sisters, Alongside Me When my O.C.D. emerged in third grade, my two […]
October 11, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘The Most Beautiful Woman I Ever Saw’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. As the Doors Began to Close The most beautiful woman I ever saw […]
October 4, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘You Are Unmatchable’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Synchronized Swimming “I want to spend the next 50 years with you,” Barry […]