This story takes us to the end of the eighties. Then I worked for an erotic magazine. The editor asked me to do a short interview with a person who had an incest experience. Of course, it was not an order, but if possible, it would be good...
Eager to prove myself, I threw myself into the research. Although I had a wide circle of friends and of all kinds and classes, it was impossible to find anyone who would dare to talk about it. You can imagine how it used to be when there was no internet, forums, or chats...but freedom of expression was also at a lower level. Of course, incest happened in the past, but months passed and I still didn't have a story.
All this time, I did a lot of research on this topic. and I came to the conclusion that in a family where there is no mother, the father fucks the daughter, or where a widowed mother and an unmarried middle-aged son live alone, so weakness pushes his mom and of course, she has to hide it. Or the case when a brother and sister play a little.
But who would dare to talk about it? Therefore, I thought that perhaps a lady who had such an experience with her father in her young days could speak about it. I was on the right track. I already had an appointment with a lady but she changed her mind at the last minute and didn't want to talk about it despite my promises that everything would remain discreet.
One Friday night I was sitting in a cafe with my friend and after a few beers, I complained to him about the interview.
Bojan: "Ha ha, there was a Macedonian with me in the army who bragged about fucking his mother."
Me: -"Do you maybe have his number?"
Bojan: -"I don't know, but I may have because we all exchanged numbers from the platoon. I have a notebook full of numbers.
Me: -"Would you be willing to take a look?"
Bojan: -"No problem."
The next afternoon, I was watching the football reclining on the couch when the phone rang.
Bojan: -"Hey, it's Bojan."
Me: "Hey."
Bojan: -"I found the number from that guy."
Me: -"That's great. What do you think about giving me the number or maybe you call him and explain to him."
Bojan: -"It's not like I'm talking about anything with him, but I'll call him."
Me: -"My friend, I am grateful to you."
Bojan: -"Then see you tonight?"
Me: -"Of course"
In the evening we met at the same place.
Bojan: -"Everything is settled, he was so happy that I called him, that he agreed without even thinking about it."
Me: "Well, congratulations."
Bojan: -"Here's his number, so I just let him know the day before to arrange to meet."
We drank quite a bit that night, which is nothing new. But this time I had a reason. On that Monday, I immediately went to tell the editor and instead of his enthusiasm, I got the answer:
"Well, where exactly in Macedonia, couldn't you find something closer?" Do you know how much it costs to travel?"
Me: -"Just a train and some cheap hotel."
He answered me: -"What hotel? You can sleep on the train!"
I was disappointed. I just answered briefly: -
"Ok, it doesn't matter to me. This was not my idea, but yours."
But the next day I was on the train to Skopje, where of course it was impossible to sleep, but they even managed to find me a room there. Of course, I wasn't expecting a four or five-star hotel, so I wasn't surprised when looking for the address, I came to a restaurant that was renting out a few beds upstairs. Probably designed for those who overeat and get drunk so they can't go home.
It was agreed that TrajÄe would pick me up after work. After 3 p.m., I went down to the restaurant and waited at the bar. As soon as a man in his late twenties appeared at the door, wearing jeans and a tracksuit, I knew it was TrajÄe. He was a tall, well-built guy with dark hair and a big moustache. I thought we would talk either in the restaurant or in the room, but TrajÄe suggested that we go outside, sit on the bench, drink beer and watch River Vardar while we talk.
I bought 4 bottles of local beer and we sat on the bench. First, I explained to him that our conversation would be completely discreet and I turned on the recorder. It was the first time I used a dictaphone if that's what you can call the box into which the cassette was pushed.
TrajÄe was not very eloquent and his knowledge of the Serbo-Croatian language was not very good either, so our conversation was reduced to my long questions and his short answers. I asked him hundreds of questions, down to the smallest detail, so that two tapes were filled with material for a story. After the conversation, we went for a few more beers and the next day I returned to Zagreb.
I completed a story and gave it to the editor. Of course, there was no place to publish it in its entirety, so he shortened it and extracted only the most important parts. He changed the names and places, moved the action to Slovenia and the story was published on half a page. Since I keep all the old issues, re-reading the story, I can almost remember every detail of the conversation with TrajÄe, and that's how this re-issue of a story from the past comes about.
In the south of, now called, North Macedonia, on the very border with Greece, lived the Trajkovski family. At the time the village had about 500 inhabitants, but most of them lived in houses scattered around the centre of the village for kilometres. In the village, there was a shop, an inn, school of the first four grades, a small clinic and a community centre. The bus ran several times a day. Apart from local people, only soldiers from the nearby guardhouse could be found in the village.
The Trajkovski family lived 4 kilometres away from the village. Typical mountain village life characterized this family. The head of the family, Goce Trajkovski, worked as a woodcutter in the local forestry. Considering their way of life, his income was enough for the family to live normally. Having completed 4 grades of elementary school, Goce did not want a different life anyway.
Elena Trajkovska was also a typical villager. A very hard-working woman who originates from Greece, from the vicinity of Thessaloniki, whose family fled to the north a long time ago because, like the Aegean Macedonians, they did not want to be assimilated into the Greeks, so they preferred to become Yugoslav Macedonians.