Modern Love (Times Column)

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 […]
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, […]
October 19, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Who Has Time to Feel All Day?’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Our Fragile Bonds Having nearly lost my marriage, I appreciate its comforts now: […]
July 6, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘He Kissed It Better’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. How to Fix a Booboo One night in the bath, my 3-year-old accidentally […]
June 29, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘She Adored Having a Gay Son’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Within Reach Over time, my husband taught himself how to repair every part […]
June 22, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Brave Enough to Unearth What’s Buried’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Only Looking at You We met in the South at a Starbucks, where […]
June 15, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Never Forget Me’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Marching in Solidarity Black ink streaked Renny’s soggy poster, blurring the letters in […]
June 8, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Two Days Later, He Moved Into My Loft’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Ready to Hug Me Orphaned at 13, I thought about how I would […]