Heart & Souls: The Complete Collection

By Oliver Frances

It is an eBook about love and life. This complete collection includes stories that speak on that is looked for but ironically found it in the most remote place and as love flourishes when this is not expected at all. Remarkably through every rosy or dramatic story is emphasized the essentiality of life.  

 

It features "The Little Ugly Duck", Cynthia's exceptional beauty makes her gain fame and admiration but not love, consequently disappointment and sadness are the prize for such comeliness. Unexpectedly she finds love in the most unthinkable place after suffering a terrible accident which turns upside down her own existence. 

"The Writer", a young lady whose big expectations about love are those depicted in fairy tales and simple love can't fulfil her wish. Ironically a writer that builds worlds of fiction, but whose life isn't led in the lines of his fantasy, is the man who shows her what true and real love is about. 

"A Marriage of Convenience", one story about a girl and boy, from Italian families respectively, who find the most sought in life -without searching for, and they do not by a lovely casualness but by one unpleasant fact.

"Soul Mates", a soul that incarnates the body of a gorgeous woman and whose mission is to find love, but living in and dealing with a material and ironic world make her detour the path to the goal -by which the soul comes to life.

"Nigel", an orphan child who always dreams of having a different life from his own and who can't notice the blessings around nor appreciate the message of the beings of light given to him in his dreams. So he grows up indifferent to life until fate unfolds tragically to him.

"Heartless", a young scientist's wish to create beautiful people, especially women to have one as his partner, but unfortunately in the whole process of creation he forgets the vital element for a soul that it is a heart.

"My Love Letter", a lad's wish to be loved for an older woman but he finds love in the person who delivers the rosy letter to him.
"The Business Woman", spoken words but not learnt ones. One young clerk talks about nourishing things for personal growth and consequently for life, but weirdly he proceeds having not in mind all what he preaches. So he leaves the impression that never believed in his own words and breaks the heart of the woman who falls in love with him.

And, to complete the collection, the touching and philosophical core of "Happy Christmas", Santa Claus' day off.

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Little French eBooks
• Release date: Jun 28, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201191504

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To Eilene Borne

Index

MY LOVE LETTER

The Little Ugly Duck

A Marriage of Convenience

The Business Woman

Soul Mate

The Writer

Nigel

Heartless

Happy Christmas

My Love Letter

It is true that in majority of cases, one’s expectation does not come as one had imagined. But, as one goes through life, one will notice that our expectations are realized through the means or people that one never initially considered at first. This is illustrated in this story about a lad who, even though his dream was big, his longing was about what is essential in life.

Countless times he waited, before the window of the living room in the morning, until he saw her leaving for work. Her beauty enchanted him and eclipsed everyone and everything around her. He could only admire her for space of minutes, and it was a gift from God for his soul.

It had been love at first sight. But, this didn’t change facts at all. He was just one teenager in love with an older woman; she might dream about a family and search for a husband not a lad in high school. So there was no hope for him beyond his daydream.

As he was writing a science composition an idea came to his mind; it was similar to a paragraph he’d read somewhere. It was about putting in black and white any heartfelt wish to make it come true. And, this conception went so deep inside him that he had written a love letter. It was a one of sweet words that knocked him off his feet; it had kisses on the bottom and a despairing declaration of love for him. And, the lad posted the letter to himself, believing that it came from her.

As usual, the following morning he had stood before the window, but this time, he waited for a letter too. A very young woman crossed in front of the window; before she slid the letter through the slot, he opened the door and saw the lovely girl with blonde hair and blue eyes who delivered his letter. Beyond any doubt, this girl was pretty but not so gorgeous as his love.

Months and days passed on. And, he’d written now hundreds of letters and the post girl had been added to the routine of the waiting to see the stunning woman. Sometimes he forgot completely to behold the woman. Countless times the lovely girl walked up to his door with a letter in hand.

She must be mad about you, the post girl said, grinning.

One of those fleeting minutes when she at his door, friendship had almost sprouted between them, and both had often shared laughter and sadness. In the end, it had turned into mixed feelings.

Anyway, there was no hope for the post girl who believed that he should be crazy about the one who wrote to him almost every day. But, somehow the girl had planted the seed of curiosity inside the lad who waited for her more anxiously than the beauty.

On a Sunday, the post girl bumped into him as he was at a coffee shop in town. Courteously, the lad had asked to join him at the counter. Accepting his invitation,