Modern love: true stories of love, loss, and redemption

Introduction / Daniel Jones

Somewhere out there. Single, unemployed, and suddenly myself / marisa Lascher ; Uh, honey, that's not your line / Matteson Perry ; I seemed plucky and game. Even to myself / Mindy Hung ; At the hospital, an interlude of clarity / Brian Gittis ; The five stages of ghosting grief / Rachel Fields ; Misery loves fried chicken, too / Mark McDevitt ; So he looked like dad. It was jsut dinner, right? / Abby Sher ; No? No? No? Let me read between the lines / Steve Friedman ; During the night of casual sex, urgent messages go unanswered / Andrew Rannells ; For best hookup results, use your words, ok? / Gabrielle Ulubay

I think I love you. When cupid is a prying journalist / Deborah Copaken ; Sleeping with the guitar player / jean Hanff Korelitz ; Hear that wedding march often enough, you fall in step / Larry Smith ; The race grows sweeter near its final lap / Eve Pell ; Loved and lost? It's ok, especially if you win / Veronica Chambers ; Single, and surrounded by a wall of men / Susan M. Gelles ; When Eve and Eve bit the apple / Kristen Scharold ; Would my heart outrun its pursuer? / Gary Presley ; Truly, madly, guiltily / Ayelet Waldman ; Who's that lady in the bedroom, Daddy? / Trey Ellis ; You may want to marry my husband / Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Holding on through the curves. A body scarred, a marriage healed / Autumn Stephens ; DJ's homeless mommy / Dan Savage ; Now I need a place to hide away / Ann Hood ; Rallying to keep the game alive / Ann Leary ; Out from under the influence / Kevin Cahillane ; The chicken's in the oven, my husband's out the door / Theo Pauline Nestor ; Take me as I am. Whoever I am / Terri Cheney ; Adolescence, without a roadmap / Claire Scovell LaZebnik ; My husband is now my wife / Diane Daniel

Famliy matters. Something like motherhood / Carolyn Megan ; First i met my children, then my girlfriend. They're related / Aaron Long ; When Mr Reliable becomes Mr Needy / Katherine Tanney ; My first lesson in motherhood / Elizabeth Fitzsimmons ; Two men, baby on the way, and me / Rebecca Eckler ; When mom is on the scent, and right / Liza Monroy ; Two Decembers: Loss and redemption / Anne Marie Feld ; Beyond divorce and even death, a promise kept / Jennifer Just ; The third half of a couple / Howie Kahn ; When I was sixteen, I placed him up for adoption. Could we try again? / Meredith Hall ; When the doorman is your main man / Julie Margaret Hogben.