by Olga Brajnović | Feb 14, 2021 | challenges, Family, Memories
I would like to have a place to call my village, but my roots are very far away. I’m a child of exile, and for many years those places were forbidden for me. Now that things had changed, and I don’t have any political problems to return to my country and...
by Olga Brajnović | Jul 25, 2018 | Family
I can sense the blue glance of my dad very close to me while I’m sailing thru the sea of his childhood. I’m looking at the green and white islands around us and listening to the ancient stories that the old sailor is telling me about these magic places. There is an...
by Olga Brajnović | Jun 16, 2014 | challenges
Today, tell us about the home you lived in when you were twelve. For your twist, pay attention to — and vary — your sentence lengths. I’m afraid of the elevator. It’s an old dark wooden machine inserted in a cage-like structure that quiver while it lifts...