Musings on the Dark: Nineteen Tales

Musings on the Dark is inspired in myth, superstition, and old wives' tales. Add a pinch of truth; fact and fiction coexist in this collection of fantastic accounts. Author Silvia Font sifts the mediocre to find the exquisite, be it darkly humorous or frankly macabre. She believes that wandering away from the light of reality into the dim unknown may actually protect our sanity, or at least provide some poetry in a world of inescapable bad news and pitiless technology. So beauty will marry the beast, and they will have a child. Some of these stories will make you smile. Others, more often than not, will creep you out.

About the Author

Born a thousand years ago.Since early childhood, she has a beena tireless reader and listener. Raised bya family of soothsayers and storytellers(not as in liars but as in raconteurs), shewas blessed with (semi)considerablewit, along with the gift of sarcasm and agood eye for the absurd.She soon committed to writing whatshe learned—or tried to—but she neverpublished. Too chicken.Journalism was possibly a huge mistakefor a somewhat mystic, spooky girl, butshe made a living. And on the sly, shefocused on the interesting stuff.She made her bones as a news andfeature writer, editor, and translator,especially of literature.Font screams in her sleep, disturbed byeerie nightmares. They can be funnyor horrific. She fears yet loves the dark,hates Daylight Saving Time (because it'sstupid), but kind of likes the light.

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