by Olga Brajnović | Feb 24, 2021 | challenges, Family, Memories
An explosion, a loud shake, and the screeching of iron on iron interrupted the conversations and led to an ominous silence. The shooting began immediately. The train had derailed after colliding with a bomb on the track planted by the guerrillas. People, including my...
by Olga Brajnović | Oct 8, 2020 | challenges, commitment, Family, Journalism, Memories
During WWII, my dad was on a train when a communist guerrilla bombed the tracks. They killed many passengers and took the survivors as prisoners. My dad was an independent journalist who had been a prisoner of the fascists for criticizing Mussolini. Now only because...
by Olga Brajnović | Sep 25, 2020 | challenges, Family, Memories
I wrote this post September 25th 2014 to answer a WordPress prompt that asked who was my hero when I was five and if my vision of that person had changed with the time. When I was five he was my hero. The perfect man. The one who knew all the answers. The one with...
by Olga Brajnović | Apr 30, 2016 | challenges
Here is my mom solving crosswords at her desk. She is 96. She has total paralysis in the left half of her body due to a brain stroke she suffered four years ago and she’s completely dependant, confined in her wheelchair, but his intelligence remains intact....
by Olga Brajnović | Jan 14, 2016 | challenges, daily prompt
Ana opened the old notebook she found among her husband’s things. It was the older one of the eighteen notebooks handwritten he had kept carefully during all those years. Tight lines of his neat handwriting in faded blue ink were waiting for the rightful reader. He...
