by Olga Brajnović | May 19, 2023 | fiction, Journalism
Jonas was exhausted. He hadn’t slept all night or for the past three nights. Last Monday, an intense day of bombings destroyed his shelter… and his nerves. No roof over his head, no food, and no electricity meant no way to communicate with his family and...
by Olga Brajnović | Apr 12, 2023 | fiction
“They told us it was a strategic military target. The drone did its job bombing the buildings of the explosives factory with surgical precision. We are now going to eliminate any possible resistance, taking prisoners if they are survivors”, explained the commandant to...
by Olga Brajnović | Apr 1, 2023 | Family, fiction, Love
Where are you? Don’t you get that I can´t even breath without you? I feel soguilty in a comfortable, quiet classroom, listening to a teacher talk aboutsomething I don’t care about! What is the teacher talking about? Something about philosophy. At least, that is what I...
by Olga Brajnović | Mar 8, 2022 | commitment, fiction
Here I’m alone, waiting for a bus under the bridge in the outskirts of Kyiv with the columns painted with the colors of our flag. Oleg took the picture when he was coming to meet me. It was Friday, 18th February 2022. We were going to Mariinsky Park to walk and...
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...
