Tales Dark and Light

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:3 December 2019
Post category:Readers / Writers

Terms like “Chick Lit” and “Romance” suggest light reading, though these genres include serious stories as well. Other book categories automatically call up visions of brooding characters, bleak settings, and tragic events: Crime Drama and Horror come to mind.

Many a Science Fiction and Urban Fantasy is dark, indeed, with heart-pounding suspense, dystopian environments, and no positive outcome to give the reader a boost of optimism.

Without naming names, I have found that some cultures promote depressing tales that do not end well. On the other hand, other nations are associated with light-hearted stories and happy endings.

Readers fall into slots as well: those who gravitate to dark tales, those who avoid dystopian stories, and those who read some of each. Personally, I prefer a sense of optimism, but I have been known to enjoy gloomy tales as well.

What is your preference: dark or light?

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Sandra Jarvis 5 December 2019

I prefer stories with a hopeful ending, but I sometimes read stories that have a sad ending also. I like stories that have the ability to bring out emotional responses.

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I NOTICED THE SWAGGER FIRST: that arrogant saunter that said, “I’m irresistible and I know it.” He was good-looking, yes—as emphasized by the tight jeans that displayed every muscle and more than hinted at one in particular. And the chambray shirt open to show off a broad chest matted with jet hair that proclaimed his masculinity.

–excerpt from Bad Twin

GINETTE LAY STARING into darkness in the low cot by the grand canopied bed in which Lady Barton snored softly. To her surprise and dismay, the old woman had roused from her fireside dozing when she entered the room and had insisted on regaling her with more tales of the foibles and weaknesses of the aristocracy as Ginette helped her undress.

Thinking back on it, she realized there had been a subtle urgency in the manner of the viscountess. Indeed, now that she recalled her months as maid-cum-companion, she recognized that she had felt yet dismissed a sense of impendence. At first, she had wondered was it she who anticipated something vaguely threatening, or was it Lady Barton who expected some event? Now, a certainty filled her that Lady Barton’s choosing to employ her signified much more than she had guessed.

But what?

–excerpt from Propositions and Proposals

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