A Frank Literary Blog!

Below you'll find blog pieces and short videos sharing my fiction, and take-aways on great literature, as well as my thoughts on mental well-being and the three principles understanding! For updates, please subscribe!

Certain of My Own Certainty - A Pep-Talk from My Ego

(Or ... How My Ego Seduces Me When I'm Full of My Own Righteousness #7573) Frank, oh, god! What you said to that guy, wow! You gave him...

May 5, 2020

Softly Sleeps the Calm... A Fragment

"Give me another shot of that," he said. I gave him a shot. "Oh, that's right," he said. “That's the stuff.” The pretty girl next to him...

May 3, 2020

Frozen Peas - A Fragment

Then there was the rain, but she wasn't thinking about that. As she put down her coffee the bracelet on her wrist made a clinking sound....

May 2, 2020

Why I Love ... "Dante and the Lobster" by Samuel Beckett

Sometime back in 1995, when most of the students of the University of Wales, College Cardiff had gone home to their families for the...

May 2, 2020

Life, Value, and Simple Things

I love Shakespeare, especially Hamlet, and have the opening line of that most famous soliloquy on a poster above my desk. Usually with...

Apr 17, 2020

Universal Basic Income - Sympathy from the Devil?

Recently came across a post on universal basic income (UBI) from a channel I follow on social media. The page puts out good content in...

Apr 14, 2020

Ocean of Story - Christina Stead

Christina Stead, Australian writer, born 1902, died 1983. Best known for her novel, The Man Who Loved Children (1940).

Jan 22, 2020

Author Quotes: Ben Okri

Ben Okri, born in Nigeria in 1959, is an essayist, novelist, and poet, most widely known for his 1991 Booker Prize winning novel, The...

Jan 10, 2020

The Remains of the Day: Opening Lines

My short audio exploring the opening lines of Kazuo Ishiguro's 1989 Booker Prize winning novel, The Remains of the Day. "It seems...