Love (Emotion)

November 23, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Forced Cinderella to Scrub the Stage Floor’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Old Roots Bearing Fruit On a brisk November morning, I found myself climbing […]
November 19, 2021

He Cared About Me, So I Broke Up With Him

When you’re used to the roller-coaster emotions of bad relationships, it can be hard to believe in anything else. David said that he knew I was […]
November 16, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Only Sort of Hope He’s Happy’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Delayed Deliverance Ticket stubs, foreign coins. Life’s ephemera tossed into a box. After […]
November 16, 2021

Theirs Is a ‘Traditional Untraditional’ Union

The Tony Award-winning actor Daisy Eagan and her husband Keith Bloom, who are in an open relationship, share how they designed a marriage that works for […]
November 12, 2021

The Manny Diaries

Chapter one: This job is hard. Chapter two: Leaving it is harder. I was 24, relatively new to New York City, working a day job I […]
November 9, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘His Skin Against Mine’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. It’s Kind of a Funny Story … So, I’m visiting my friend Donnie […]
November 5, 2021

The Curious Tale of Mr. Kale

He was everything I expected and wanted. So why hasn’t he returned to Whole Foods? I met Mr. Kale on the checkout line at Whole Foods […]
November 2, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘With You, I Can Be a New Person’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Constancy in Candy My grandmother kept a candy bowl on a table by […]
October 29, 2021

A Stranger Looked Like My Twin. That Was Just the Beginning.

How a family secret was unraveled by 23andMe. I was asleep when my identity exploded. One Friday morning in 2019, I awoke in Brooklyn to an […]
October 26, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘At the Halloween Party, Anxious to Go Home’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. ‘A Very Happy Devil’ A shy, uncomfortable Devil fidgeted at the Halloween party, […]