Love Lies Dying
- Holly Rhiannon
- Jan 21
- 2 min read
We've reached two and a half years of publishing The Stygian Zine, and Issue 5 is now available. Love Lies Dying examines what happens when love decays, when it becomes something we no longer recognize.
This issue doesn't flinch from the messiness of endings, the weight of grief, or the strange shapes devotion takes when it sours. You'll find ghosts here, both literal and figurative. A woman receives her lover's heart and locks it away. A widow is visited by something that wears her husband's voice but hungers with alien need. Love transforms into obsession, into haunting, into the bruises that bloom across a throat.
These stories understand that the end of love rarely comes clean. It tears gradually. Distorts. Refuses to let go even when it should.
Some of these pieces are quiet in their devastation; a bed left unmade becomes an entire relationship. Rain falls while Leonard Cohen plays, and two people hold hands knowing the words will stay unspoken. Others are visceral, pulling you into bodies that betray us, into the physical evidence of what we've survived.
The writers in this issue have given us their most honest reckonings with love's aftermath. They've shown us what remains when the beautiful parts burn away: ash, memory, the persistent ache of absence. This is love stripped and examined under harsh light, and these pages hold that truth without apology.
How to Get Your Copy
Print Edition: Available now through Blurb.ca
Digital Edition: Right here on our website!
Love Lies Dying would not exist without the writers and artists who trusted us with their most vulnerable work. Their work deserves to be read, to be felt, to make you uncomfortable in all the right ways.
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