by Olga Brajnović | Jun 2, 2023 | challenges, fiction
Carla was worried because Gordon and his kids had not arrived at the shelter as it was arranged. She went to the apartment from he was evicted and found the workers already demolishing the building. No trace of Gordon, his truck or brother Francis, the old Franciscan...
by Olga Brajnović | Apr 5, 2021 | fiction
She was alone at her table having tea, her eyes sad and lost, not caring about what was happening around her. It didn’t seem to bother her that an elegantly dressed stranger from a nearby table kept watching her, clearly trying to get her attention. A few...
by Olga Brajnović | Nov 12, 2020 | challenges, Journalism
a blurry image of the demonstrators and the concrete trap. I went to the courthouse like every day, to report about a trial, when I found a demonstration blocking the entrance. A group of youngsters protested against the mandatory military service. Nothing unusual....
by Olga Brajnović | Nov 26, 2015 | challenges, daily prompt
The police made a raid against a net of heroine trafficking in a marginal neighbourhood. I had to go to cover the information for my newspaper. The main operation took place in a building near the train station. Petty drug dealers lived there in filthy apartments,...
by Olga Brajnović | Jun 13, 2015 | daily prompt
Tell us about a conversation you couldn’t help but overhear and wish you hadn’t. It was not properly a conversation, but an exchange between a terrorist and a policeman who had just caught him. I was there with my photographer as a young reporter, following a police...
