by Olga Brajnović | Jan 16, 2024 | Family, fiction, Love, our life
–Claire, don’t hang up! Just listen for a second, said Mark very fast through the phone. Silence -It’s Liam, added Mark. -I’m listening, said Claire. -He is not doing well. We had to go to the psychologist. She insists on having a conversation...
by Olga Brajnović | Nov 14, 2023 | arts, beauty, Family, fiction, Love
Marianna always wanted to be a ballerina. From her earliest childhood, she was fascinated by the tulle dresses, the satin slippers with ribbons, and the graceful movements of the slender figures that flew across the stages like butterflies, almost without touching the...
by Olga Brajnović | Oct 24, 2023 | challenges, Poetry
I went to the enchanted forest dancing and wandering without worries. I fell asleep in a soft bed of spruce needles while the evening was still warm, and woke up in the middle of the freezing night with my back aching and my eyes shut with icy tears. The green dome...
by Olga Brajnović | Oct 16, 2023 | challenges, fiction
Okay, not everyone has the same destiny. But why should it have been my turn to have seen the light in a dirty warehouse in District 4 of Saigon? Couldn’t it have been in the middle of Montmarte, Paris, or Fifth Avenue in New York? Or in one of those Dutch towns...
by Olga Brajnović | Oct 11, 2023 | challenges, fiction
I have stretched, taking my time, after a good sleep. I always rest better after a kill. And today, I performed a state-of-the-art assassination in the cellar. I didn’t know my victim. He happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Poor guy....
