by Olga Brajnović | Nov 15, 2021 | challenges, fiction, Journalism
A new TV station was opening its headquarters in Matt’s city. He immediately filed his CV, hoping for an opportunity to get a job as a reporter. There were tons of young and enthusiastic journalists hunting for a workplace, and he knew it wasn’t going 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 | Sep 9, 2015 | challenges, daily prompt
Getting up each morning was a heroic act. She wasn’t entirely conscious of what was going on. She felt terribly tired, and any effort seemed unbearable. But she had a family to take care of and a job to keep, so she dragged herself each morning to perform her duties....
by Olga Brajnović | Aug 31, 2015 | challenges, daily prompt
When I arrived at the newsroom in the morning, usually there were many people already working. But that particular day the room was almost empty. A lot of my colleagues were working out, in a building just a block away. A princess had come to preside the inauguration...
by Olga Brajnović | Mar 25, 2015 | Uncategorized
Draft a post with three parts, each unrelated to the other, but create a common thread between them by including the same item — an object, a symbol, a place — in each part. A man was reading the newspaper while waiting at the door of the district attorney. I noticed...
