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...
by Olga Brajnović | Nov 27, 2020 | challenges, Love
The following is a quote of my dad’s diaries when he was separated from my mom because of the IIWW and the posterior persecution of the communists. The separation lasted twelve years. Every moment I accompany you, Ana. In silence, I contemplate what you do and...
by Olga Brajnović | Nov 2, 2020 | challenges, Poetry
Photo by Corey Agopian on Unsplash My father was a poet and journalist. He suffered a lot during WWII. Almost all his friends and all his brothers died young during those horrible years. He was taken prisoner first by the Italian Fascists and years later by the...
by Olga Brajnović | Aug 20, 2020 | challenges, Journalism, Memories
Before its dramatic fall, Yugoslavia had a very complicated political system. There was no president but a collective presidential institution formed by eight persons, one from each federal republic or autonomous region. Every May 5th, one of them took a turn to be...
by Olga Brajnović | Jan 8, 2020 | challenges, Journalism
I ‘ll try to answer the questions formulated by the challenge Fandango’s Provocative Question.: Do you feel that Donald Trump was justified in ordering a drone strike that resulted in the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, the commander of Iran’s elite Quds...
