I think it's actually more of a tilt in the short story magazines. It's easier to turn out grim things that seem profound, and much harder to turn out profound optimism. I've gotten lighter stories into anthologies. And I think a lot of novels have more lightness to them. Novels are somehow more acceptable to be just entertaining, whereas a lot of the short story markets are going more for artistic.
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