Modern Love (Times Column)

December 31, 2021

Tiny Love Stories for the New Year: Fresh Starts and New Beginnings

This week, instead of the usual essay, we’re ushering in the new year with eight Tiny Love Stories about fresh starts. Now It’s All Fresh Fish […]
December 21, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Nobody Knows I’m a Lesbian’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Our Rescue Game The year our father left, I’d thrash around on my […]
December 21, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Nobody Knows I’m a Lesbian’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Our Rescue Game The year our father left, I’d thrash around on my […]
December 14, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘A Child I’ll Never Meet’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. A Poem in My Pocket Walking home, I stopped before a poet for […]
December 7, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Felt Desire Overshadow Fear’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. What I Now See An aging expatriate in France, I recently started sending […]
November 30, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Your Husband Will Probably Leave You Now’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Never Mind the Naysayers “My mother says your husband will probably leave you […]
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 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 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 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 […]