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 | Jun 16, 2018 | challenges, Memories
When I was little, I was the target of jokes of choice for my classmates, because I couldn’t speak properly Spanish. I had went to school not knowing a single word of the language, because we were immigrants and at home we spoke Croatian. I was constantly making...
by Olga Brajnović | Nov 8, 2017 | daily prompt
I have never been good at dancing because I have a directionality problem, and I cannot tell right from left, up from down, and so on. My limbs coordination is almost null. My mom used to call me “my wind mill”, because my arms and legs were long and thin and they...
by Olga Brajnović | Nov 7, 2017 | daily prompt
To be bilingual has many advantages. But sometimes creates strange situations. I uttered my firsts words in Croatian, and I learned Spanish at school when I was already 5 years old. I thought I had learned my Spanish pretty well, when something happened to me that...
by Olga Brajnović | Sep 2, 2015 | challenges, daily prompt
She was taller than the rest of us. I can’t remember her name, but I can see her face, always frightened, with her eyes looking around, a little lost, as searching for help. She had trouble understanding simple words. I had trouble too. But my case was different. I...
