I've wrote a very cold blooded and chilling scene and realize that I can be extremely dark if I choose to be. I've gotten a lot of comments in the past from readers that felt I tend towards darkness a lot in my story, but I never ask you guys, what type of darkness is it? Is it something that you guys like or something you guys fear? or a little bit of both?

Then, I start reading and writing review of stories and find other authors with the same word in their reviews, "it's dark" or something to that effect.

What is darkness to a reader?

I mean darkness can be gothic horror based like vampire love stories, or it could be surreal issues, or maybe even, if I am writing the stories correctly for you to get my point, the darkness is in the mundane human actions.

I think we are taught to believe that good things happen to good people, bad things happen to bad people. Karma is a bitch and such. However, what if the logic fails? Good things happen to bad people and bad things happen to good people. What does that make our choices and actions?

In my view, Objectivism is a lie, created by purists seeking only the natural goodness in outcomes, perfection in design, and simplicity of nature. Evil will triumph and so will good, but it is based on probability and not some innate nature of good always winning.

Darkness for me is reality within fiction, a cold chill that everyone has done the right thing in their point of view, but at the end, they are consumed by their choices whether for the greater good or ill.