Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.

The romance author Ashley Poston recommends books bursting with quaint charm, sizzling banter and plenty of heart.

Here are some beautiful and heartfelt love poems dedicated to secret affairs, those forbidden loves that can't be flaunted in ...

They who while living had mingled their interests, fortunes, counsels, nay rather souls,” reads their tombstone, “might in the same manner, in death, at last mingle their sacred ashes.” This exuberant ...

When he's in a good relationship, a man provides for the person he loves by being a safe presence. Many men struggle to ...

Mary O’Donnell, author of Walking Ghosts, on the short story: how I approach it, and why emotional honesty matters . . .

Some poems are long and densely packed with meaning, but others are like snapshots written to save an image, idea or scene, ...