Robin Olsen
Bio
I love to write. A vivid imagination combined with a healthy dose of life experience has left me with plenty to write about. Sometimes it is pure fantasy and sometimes it is life experience that motivates my writing.
Stories (3/0)
Keeping the Peace
This is a story of a true life event that happened to me during my time as a United Nations Peacekeeper. A duty assigned to Canadian soldiers when required. The primary purpose of the peacekeeper is to monitor previously agreed to cease fires and treaties between warring nations to ensure mutual compliance.
By Robin Olsen2 years ago in Serve
Above the Western Front
It was a cold and wet morning. It was always cold and wet in the morning in spring. April in France was normally a pretty site. Trees and flowers return color to a dreary landscape as they spring back to life after a long nap. Yeah, France is nice in springtime, normally, but in the year 1918, and for the last 4 years before that, Europe’s greatest powers have been using northern France as a battleground. Gone were the spring trees and fresh flowers, replaced by a line of opposing trenches, shattered stumps and mud. Mud everywhere, as far as the eye can see, mud fields with shell crater lakes all over the place.
By Robin Olsen2 years ago in Fiction
A Boy and His Tiger
Aleksei Maximilian had been born and raised in the Sikhote-Alin mountain range in Eastern Russia. He could remember when his mother would strap him onto her back and carry him all day while she worked and toiled in their small garden that they were able to grow in the temperate mountain environment. He could still hear his father’s voice as he taught him how to hunt and fish and what wild plants could be eaten and which ones could not. Aleksei had learned his lessons well when he was a child. Good thing too, his mother died when he was only 8 of an illness and his father was killed 4 years later in a hunting accident. Aleksei, who had no brothers or sisters, had been alone since then.
By Robin Olsen2 years ago in Fiction
