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...
by Olga Brajnović | Nov 21, 2022 | challenges, fiction, Journalism
John had finally found the story of his life. His boss will give him a desk in the newsroom when he’ll read it. No doubt. He only have to get in time to the deadline at 8 pm. That morning he had been wandering thru the corridors of the courthouse and meet a...
by Olga Brajnović | Nov 15, 2022 | fiction
-What are you doing, Oliver? she asked nervously. No answer. -Oliver, this is not funny! Where are you? Cindy was scared. She had just married Oliver after a short relationship, and they were on a strange honeymoon, crossing the Country in an old convertible chevy and...
by Olga Brajnović | Aug 10, 2022 | challenges, Family, fiction, Nature
Bob always had to be the first to get to the top. So he disappeared, running up through the wooden scale. Soon we heard him yell in horror and saw him coming down faster than when he climbed the mountain. -A bear! There is an enormous bear at the top! Dad told us to...
