Oliver Frances

Once upon a time, there used to be a man, who perched on a bench at the main square of a small European town. This grudged about Aristocracy -especially on the style of life of those people that were aristocrats. His criticism focused on privileges, wealth, luxury, jewelry and clothes. Anyhow, his complaint wasn’t based on the equal of distribution of the national wealth between the citizens. In fact, his morbid resentment was consequence of the felling stranded for not to have and enjoy all what the aristocrats had. Unfortunately, this man never did a thing to raise his life condition at a high standard. All what he did was to envy the others. However, his life line wasn’t so long. And, when the man died, he went to Heaven’s doors. The poor man met St. Peter, who he asked a better position in his next life. “I didn’t have a pleasant existence, sir,” the man said. ‘You had the right existence to evolve spiritually though, you don’t believe it,” St. Peter rebuked. “Well, but it...

Since Frances uses the very poetic language of fairy tales and fables, it may be necessary to read this book more than once before the reader completely understands the narrative thread. So, for the sake of convenience, here is a chapter outline (omitting 10 and 11, which are largely rhetorical). 1. A child playing in a garden wanders among some oak trees, soon finding himself lost in the woods. He tries to hide behind a tree, but its branches open up like arms. The boy then witnesses a strange parade of men (or perhaps angels), leading a man dressed in rags whose rags burn him alive. 2. The reader learns the child is named Frederick, and that he'll be referred to in the narrative as Our Wise Man. He has been a handsome youth, but now he's growing older. Frederick sits in his parlor contemplating his relationship with the young man he mentors. He falls asleep and dreams about a courtroom with walls that appear to be made of a blue gas. Frederick sees a trial being p...

Oliver Frances begins to write on his teens. His first short story was an epic one, inspired in chivalric romance books. As time went by, his themes are based on emotions, conveyed on Summer Love; and from the experience derived of his travels, and political and social issues being one background for all unfolding drama in the stories featured in Century’s Endings. Surprisingly, Oliver went on to romance publishing short stories that are part of the series of Heart & Souls, though. All the stories of Heart weren’t appreciated by the readers, despite having great editorial reviews from severe critics. The fact lingers of that Frances, as one reader writes, have written stories that differ so much from contemporary American literature. Hence, the reader loves or hates them, unfortunately there is no in between. Anyhow, this didn’t refrain Oliver from releasing Heart II. In his latest works, is evidenced a change about themes. Now, his stories convey drama but through spiritu...

In life, dreams are an engine that starts up an existence. These are the places where man deposits his hopes for tomorrow. It's always been said that dreams are just dreams with no action. Man needs more than action to make his dreams come true. The size of your dream is proportional to the mind with which it is dreamt. The mind is proportional to the conscience, which nourishes it. The conscience is the size of the man that contains and sustains it. Your dreams go into unconsciousness and turn into thoughts, and these create and change the will of the world. Thought is pure energy, which leaves your being and goes into the universe, where it expands. A creative idea comes through the mind, and then turns into words afterward. The vocabulary adds energy. In some cases, words turn into deeds─the manifestation of the thought into the physical plane. A man of mean and small dreams creates and sustains mean and small realities. A man with ambitions of power or delusions of grand...

Dips into man’s soul and mind, showing that what each of us seeks actually is inside us. The collection of stories and essays takes readers on a trip that: * Presents life as irony through very common situations. * Shows our mettle in a world where man sometimes sails against the tides. * Dives into your own mind to show your capacity – often neglected – to see the world and circumstances in a very different perspective. * Attempts to figure out a mysterious, surprising and unknown event as fate. * Describes events and routines onto which an individual is hung, tracing the course of life that begins dull and stripped of the opportunity for spiritual grow. Bonus: Nigel -Short Story https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/242992

In life, you can lose as well as gain a lot of things. In fact, we weep, the majority of times, over the loss of material things without taking into considerations those things that we let out of our hands, and which are related to our inner world. Not many people have in mind their capacity of loving. As our days turn hard in a convulsing world we just get used to watch love in a Hollywood movie, though. Our capacity of loving goes further than the act of falling in love. Perhaps, some people don’t know about what I am talking because they come from either a dysfunctional family where love was inexistent or a family where love didn’t matter, so it’s as to ask a child about something that he doesn’t know. However, you could be aware of what is the capacity of loving, but you have lost it as consequence of a broken heart, many failed relationships, a bitter divorce or bad experiences in life. The capacity of loving is the element that grants you the ability of appreciate...

 A truth that might have been revealed to you is that the world has become a place where money has turned into a principle, and, another one is that society has erected false principles as guides to life. So man sets himself into a race to pursue these goals –which eventually brings him to individualism.  His concern about him leads to isolating himself from his neighbor, it turning him into a lonely soul. Unable to comprehend that wealth is not a real principle and that this shouldn't rule over him –but the other way around; he metamorphoses himself into a heartless flesh that goes through life as a hollowed being without a valuable thought. A person can lose sight of what this considers truly important in life  and of what would grant him true happiness. But, after water has passed under the bridge, man is aware of what is essential in life –the aim for which he has come here. Sadly people often only find it out at the end of life.  In most of the times,  fate...