by Olga Brajnović | May 27, 2021 | challenges, Family, fiction
Mark was scared. Tanya had called him to talk urgently in the middle of a working day, and she sounded very concerned. She had been acting a little strange lately, and he was afraid their incredible love story was going to plunge. It was not fair. Mark had done...
by Olga Brajnović | Mar 9, 2021 | challenges, Family, Memories
My mom had just died. I was feeling a deep emptiness in my soul. I had managed to appear calm and strong at the hospital, and after that, greeting friends at the funeral home, the church, and the cemetery. My sisters had cried her loss, but tears didn’t come to...
by Olga Brajnović | Feb 24, 2021 | challenges, Family, Memories
An explosion, a loud shake, and the screeching of iron on iron interrupted the conversations and led to an ominous silence. The shooting began immediately. The train had derailed after colliding with a bomb on the track planted by the guerrillas. People, including my...
by Olga Brajnović | Feb 14, 2021 | challenges, Family, Memories
I would like to have a place to call my village, but my roots are very far away. I’m a child of exile, and for many years those places were forbidden for me. Now that things had changed, and I don’t have any political problems to return to my country and...
by Olga Brajnović | Feb 4, 2021 | challenges, Family, Memories
My father had an aunt named Olga, a teacher at the school in his town, Kotor. She was respected and loved by everybody because she cared for her pupils very much. The town suffered a lot during WWII. First, the Italian fascists occupied it and took my father as a...
by Olga Brajnović | Dec 29, 2020 | challenges, commitment, Family
An earthquake hit my little homeland this morning. So far, six people dead and some more unaccounted for, many wounded and great destruction. The earth hasn’t stop trembling since last March when another earthquake hit the capital, Zagreb. Back then, in the...
