by Olga Brajnović | Oct 25, 2021 | Family, fiction, Memories
She traveled every day through the most beautiful places on earth with her eyes avid of the new colors nature always offers fresh and different to her lovers. Often she returned to the stunning mountains where she spent her childhood when people were dying in the big,...
by Olga Brajnović | Sep 13, 2021 | challenges, fiction, Memories
The road ended at the fence of the front garden of the old house my father had found to spend our summer holidays. It was the best he could afford with his university teacher’s salary for the seven of us. Behind the building, they were imposing mountains, track...
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 | 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...
