Love is a universal feeling commonly associated with happiness, bliss, and overwhelming optimism; however, in reality it is far more complex. This issue of Inventio explores the darker sides of love and seeks to challenge our preconceived notions by daring to ask, is love always a positive emotion?
Our fiction submission reflects on what it means to love and whether it is possible to love too much through an epic science fiction tale between a human and a cyborg. One poetry submission reflects on a blind search for love that consumes its seeker.
Our second poetry submission deconstructs the traditional domestic fantasy. One non-fiction submission looks at how a lack of familial love leads to an appreciation of nature. The second non-fiction submission explores the effects of a parent’s expectations that, though born from love, may hold back the children they hold dear.
We would like to thank our gifted contributors—Krista Gosselin, Joelle Lepage, Mahmoodulhasan Bhaiyat, Nicholas Mohammed, and Jessica Lappin—for honouring us with their works. We hope you enjoy this issue.
—Written by Leilani Carranza
Edited by Dunja Dudarin, AEiC