by Olga Brajnović | May 19, 2023 | fiction, Journalism
Jonas was exhausted. He hadn’t slept all night or for the past three nights. Last Monday, an intense day of bombings destroyed his shelter… and his nerves. No roof over his head, no food, and no electricity meant no way to communicate with his family and...
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, 2021 | challenges, fiction, Journalism
A new TV station was opening its headquarters in Matt’s city. He immediately filed his CV, hoping for an opportunity to get a job as a reporter. There were tons of young and enthusiastic journalists hunting for a workplace, and he knew it wasn’t going to...
by Olga Brajnović | Mar 14, 2021 | challenges, Journalism, Memories
I love music. I studied piano, and I have been a music teacher for kids in a primary school. But I wanted to become a journalist, so I continued my studies in writing, history, and law and found a job in a newspaper. They assigned me to the courts and crimes desk....
by Olga Brajnović | Jan 28, 2021 | challenges, Journalism, Memories, our life
I was born in exile and went to school without knowing my parents’ new country’s language. To further complicate things in the classroom, I had (and still have) a directionality problem and couldn’t tell my right from my left. So for me, the letters...
by Olga Brajnović | Jan 17, 2021 | challenges, Journalism, Memories, our life
The eighties and nineties were dangerous on the streets of the city where I live and where I worked as a journalist. Terrorists committed bomb attacks or shootings, killing and wounding dozens. While on the streets, groups of young people supported them with...
