by Olga Brajnović | Jan 2, 2023 | challenges, fiction
Finally, the sun has risen. I can see now where I am. A cave at the shore of the Ocean. The orange light enters through the opening in the rocks as well as the waves. The concavity inside amplifies the sound of the water crashing against the stones in thousands of...
by Olga Brajnović | Dec 27, 2022 | challenges, fiction
-How much time do you think we have? asked Rosy -I don’t know: A week? A month? Answered Melanie. They were sitting on the top of the pickup in front of a lake on a cold and humid day. Rosy couldn’t face the lake and was looking at the mountains around the...
by Olga Brajnović | Dec 20, 2022 | challenges, fiction
Clifford had changed. Lately, he had been eluding her at school and looked gloomy, silent, and lonely.Britney was worried. She dreamed of becoming his girlfriend. And everything seemed to go right, as she wanted. Both were the top students in their class. In the...
by Olga Brajnović | Dec 17, 2022 | challenges, fiction, Nature
-Where are you going? Sally asked as she saw her husband hauling the skis and boots to load the car. -Is it not clear? To the Mountain to ski! It’s November 20. The season begins. -But there is no snow, Jim. We are at 68º. This doesn’t look like November;...
by Olga Brajnović | Dec 8, 2022 | challenges, fiction
Carl woke up after a strange deep sleep full of unsettling dreams. He opened his eyes, relieved, but immediately realized that he wasn’t in his bedroom. He tried to stretch his arms and legs to get up, but something he couldn’t recognize was digging into his whole...
by Olga Brajnović | Nov 28, 2022 | challenges, fiction
My four heads carefully cracked at exactly the same spot, crossing the face but leaving the expression untouched. Here they are. In front of me. Exactly as I made them. But I can’t hold them. What is happening to me? They were a small structure I sculpted in my...
