Modern Love (Times Column)

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 […]
January 3, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘A Wife Who Left’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. A Perfect Fit I’m 5-foot-4. The tallest man I’ve dated seriously was 5-foot-8; […]
December 27, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘He Knows Better by Now’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. A Memory Mea Culpa “Your favorite New Year’s Eve ever?” I asked my […]
December 20, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Meet Me Under the Bridge at 5 a.m.’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. My Unwritten Chapter Before she died at 42, my wife suggested I marry […]
December 13, 2022

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Decided to Be Brutally Honest’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. What Money Can’t Buy I had just returned from six months of rehab. […]
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 […]