Modern Love (Times Column)

March 14, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘The Deceptively Sunny Day’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Opposites and All That My best friend Maya is messy and stomps around […]
March 14, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘The Deceptively Sunny Day’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Opposites and All That My best friend Maya is messy and stomps around […]
March 7, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘We Could Have Been Friends’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. ‘Is Love Weird?’ Every month, my mother, father, sister and I would drive […]
February 21, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘This Man Who Shattered My Life’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. A Note From a Stranger I sat crying in a Nashville emergency room, […]
February 14, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Where Is Your Valentine Tonight?’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. My Van Halen Valentine Van Halen’s “Hot for Teacher” played in my mind […]
February 7, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘My Parents Fought a Lot’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. The Pastor and Librarian No church wants a pastor without a wife. Not […]
January 31, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Want to Come Over?’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. How Could I Be Upset? I called on a whim. “It’s Diane. Do […]
January 24, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘The Cause of My Misery’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. There All Along When she was pregnant with me, my mother bought yellow […]
January 17, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Destined for Singlehood’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. A Fitting Name When my friend Nancy brought four aspiring writers together, she […]
January 10, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘The Luxury of Her Attention’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Postcard from the Future Months into dating, my girlfriend and I sat across […]