ALTER EGO INC.
By Goran Skrobonja, © 2020
Translated by Nataša Milas
After many years, she visited Teachers’ Colony again. She’d grown up in this neighborhood, but since she’d moved away, she’d had no reason to come back. She remembered the place, located between Konjarnik, Šumice, and Zvezdara, as unpleasant, shabby, and depressing.
What she saw from the taxi—a small, inexpensive, autonomous, and noiseless electric Asian vehicle—Maria didn’t recognize, nor did she associate it with any of her childhood memories.
Four crowned martyrs
By Goran Ivanković
The legendary story of four stonemasons who sacrificed their lives for their principles and faith in God and thus became martyrs of Christianity begins at the time of the Roman emperor Diocletian[1] and the great persecution of Christians. Four stonemasons lived and worked in Sirmium, then the capital of one of the four tetrarchates in the southwest of the then-Roman province of Pannonia, between the Sava and the Danube, at the site of today's Sremska Mitrovica.
Let Us Return a Voice to a World That Is Losing It
By Ilija Saula
In an era that celebrates superficiality, where clicks and virality measure the world, one quiet question pierces through the noise: Is there still space for thought? For freedom? For a truth not bartered away in the clearance sale of attention.
Freedom of speech, though nominally guaranteed today, often clashes with unseen barriers, algorithms, sensationalism, and social pressures. Between the right to speak and the ability to be heard, the divide grows wider.
THE GOURD OF HUMANITY HAS CRACKED
By Ilija Saula
SCENES FROM SAN FRANCISCO AS A WARNING TO THE WORLD
There is an old saying used to describe a point of no return: “the gourd has cracked.” We usually apply it to broken friendships or political alliances. But standing today on the streets of San Francisco, a city once synonymous with the gold rush and the Eldorado of freedom, one cannot escape the feeling that something far more profound has cracked here: the fundamental pact of our shared humanity.