by Olga Brajnović | Jun 7, 2018 | challenges, Family
I hate being negative, but purple reminds me to the dead, because is the colour of the funerals in the church. I have too recent my mom’s funeral, with all the priests dressed in purple chasuble, singing songs about the everlasting life, in wich I firmly...
by Olga Brajnović | Dec 3, 2015 | challenges, daily prompt
I didn’t want to get out of that room. I wanted to stay by him till the end. I loved him so much! Every second was precious for me. But all the others decided that I was the suitable person to accompany my mother home to have some rest. I kissed him in the...
by Olga Brajnović | Oct 21, 2015 | challenges
Who can tell it? Oh yeah! How selfish! The desire to die is so strong sometimes, when the life seems so unbearable that one only can think in disappear and rest. But that’s a passing feeling, that comes when I’m down in the hole of my deep depression. It will pass. I...
by Olga Brajnović | Sep 7, 2015 | challenges, daily prompt
This morning I turned on my computer, and the first message the screen has shown me was from Facebook. One of those birthdays reminders. One of my best friends from my time at the University would be today 57 years old. I shivered. She passed away last year after a...
by Olga Brajnović | Sep 2, 2015 | challenges, daily prompt
She was taller than the rest of us. I can’t remember her name, but I can see her face, always frightened, with her eyes looking around, a little lost, as searching for help. She had trouble understanding simple words. I had trouble too. But my case was different. I...
