by Olga Brajnović | Sep 7, 2021 | challenges, fiction, Love
Martha smiled broadly, showing her gleaming white teeth when I told her Matty has just died in a car crash. She showed no sadness, no emotion. We were all devastated. Matty was a young intern, 23, full of life and energy. Very nice chap. We all loved him because he...
by Olga Brajnović | Aug 17, 2021 | challenges, fiction, our life
– Oh my! It’s raining again! Bob complained. He hated being out under the rain, and he had had enough that day: Jogging at 5 AM under an authentic shower, going to his work at the firefighter’s station at 6 AM, and four calls during his shift to...
by Olga Brajnović | Jul 26, 2021 | challenges, Family, fiction
I just wanted to go home. I promise. After a hell of a day in the office, I was exhausted and needed a good rest.Not so easy to find it in a house with four kids, two of them already difficult adolescents and a wife overwhelmed by her job and the situation at home,...
by Olga Brajnović | May 27, 2021 | challenges, Family, fiction
Mark was scared. Tanya had called him to talk urgently in the middle of a working day, and she sounded very concerned. She had been acting a little strange lately, and he was afraid their incredible love story was going to plunge. It was not fair. Mark had done...
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...