by Olga Brajnović | Apr 26, 2021 | fiction, Nature
Photo by Harrison Haines at pixels.com -This can’t be happening to us!The car had stopped. We were in the middle of nowhere. A sea of trees surrounded us. No houses, no gas station. And we had no idea of what had happened to the engine. There was a thick cloud...
by Olga Brajnović | Dec 30, 2020 | challenges, our life
I had to overcome many irrational fears during my life, some of them with a terrible story behind them, like my fear of elevators or my fear of bridges. But what scares me most of all is death. I’m a person of faith, and I believe in a life beyond this one and...
by Olga Brajnović | Oct 13, 2020 | challenges, Journalism, Memories
The first time I entered a Court House, I felt scared and lost. I had in my hand a piece of paper I couldn’t understand I had received the day before at my newsroom, ordering me to appear before a local court to collect a summons.Maybe somebody had denounced me...
by Olga Brajnović | Oct 5, 2020 | challenges, fiction
Andrew woke up, dizzy. He couldn’t remember what had happened before he lost his conscience or where he was. The sun was high and burned his eyes. He was thirsty and hungry. An excruciating pain made him groan when he tried to get up from the dusty ground. His...
by Olga Brajnović | Sep 3, 2020 | challenges, Journalism, Memories
As a reporter, I had to deal with information about terrorism and, in my case, above all, about the youngsters who were going to be trained to become terrorists. Life could be pretty dangerous if you were a journalist trying to tell the truth. One year I decided to...
