In Sunlight or in Shadow

Edward Hopper was a painter from the mid 1900's. His paintings are interesting and sometimes stark. The idea was to give a different author a particular painting and asked to write a short story using that painting as a base. Neat idea, huh? The problem arose when the authors selected have wildly different styles and concepts. Instead of this being interesting, it turned out to be jarring. You will read one story that has a romantic, dreamy ending and the next story is a hard-boiled murder mystery. Yes, some of the stories were quite good. Some were just ok. But they have nothing to do with each other except they are based on different paintings and the overall effect was somewhat chaotic.