by Olga Brajnović | Nov 11, 2021 | our life
My friend Angela died yesterday morning while I was alone with her holding her hand. She passed away peacefully, in silence. She had had a stroke a week ago, she was 100 years old. It was her time. She doesn’t suffer anymore. I believe she is in a better place....
by Olga Brajnović | Sep 1, 2021 | challenges, fiction
Will they come? It’s late, and I’m waiting here alone. Maybe my wife is right. I’m a fool trying to forget the wounds of our recent history. We had survived a war on opposite sides. Too much blood and cruelty have torn us apart. We were just kids...
by Olga Brajnović | Jun 2, 2021 | challenges, fiction
April was excited. She was going to Gwen’s birthday party! It was the first invitation since her family had moved to her new city. She felt she was beginning to be a part of the gang at school again. She had chosen a gift for her new friend carefully: a book she...
by Olga Brajnović | May 28, 2020 | challenges, Journalism, our life
A friend of mine has died. I just read about him in the news. We worked together for 26 years in my newspaper. He was a photographer. I was a writer. We began to work the same year and used to go along to many places to do our job as reporters, he with his camera, me...
by Olga Brajnović | Jan 11, 2020 | challenges, Memories, our life, photography
My life has been tough for the last 25 years. I was young, and at the peak of my career as a journalist, a job I adore, when all began. Too much pressure, too much work, no schedules, always at call, ten or twelve hours working a day, no time to spend with my family,...