SAMPLES OF MY PROSE
Gabor Mandy


 
Dr. Lieberstein's Bad Luck


Samuel Lieberstein was a genius. As a young
child, he won all the existing prizes in
mathematics, physics, biology and even literary
history. He obtained his doctoral degree when he was
in high school yet, and had a sky-rocketing career
in front of him. Several famous universities offered
big money and good positions to have him.

But when he started his professorship at M.I.T.,
Dr. Lieberstein had Legionnaires' Disease. After
months of intensive treatment, he was cured.

One year later he had a stroke. He was treated
in the best hospital of the East Coast, and he
survived. The Department of Defense asked him
to manage a top secret research project.

Then Dr. Lieberstein developed renal cancer -
carcinoma of the kidneys. People who did not even
know him personally offered their own kidneys to
save the national hero. And he was lucky again.

But just after he got home from the hospital, an
army training helicopter fell on the roof of
his house, killing Dr. Lieberstein for good.

Nobody can outsmart God.

Nobody.

 



Waking Up


I woke up. I checked my watch to see whether or
not I was in time for the morning train. I saw that
it was too early yet, still too dark. So I went back
to sleep, hugging my wife.

Wait a minute. I do not have a wife!

I realized that I was still dreaming. I got
extremely agitated, and this finally woke me up.

I checked my watch. The train left a few minutes
ago.





 
Hating


"Honey, you're going to hate me for this, but...",
and the man stopped talking.

And his wife hated him for that.







Snow White


Snow White traveled through the woods until she came
upon an empty cottage. There were seven tiny sets
of everything. She was hungry, so she ate a little
food from one of the tiny plates. She was thirsty, so
she drank from one of the tiny mugs. And she was very
tired, so she slept on those tiny beds. Then the prince
came and took Snow White with him. And the dwarfs
came home and were asking: "Who has been sitting on
my chair?" "Who has been eating from my plate?"
"Who has taken a piece of my bread?" "Who has taken
some of my vegetables?" "Who has been using my fork?"
"Who has been cutting with my knife?" "Who has been
drinking out of my mug?" and "Who has slept in our beds?"

But they never found out.





Sleeping Beauty


"Just what the hell are you dooooing?!" said
Sleeping Beauty, opening her eyes and buttoning up
her dress. The prince panicked, and ran away.





Little Red Riding Hood


Little Red Riding Hood went to see grandma, carrying
a basket full of food. The big bad wolf followed her,
and when the girl unlocked the door, he jumped in and
ate both. Then he took the food basket, for the next
day there would be no one to eat. Meanwhile the hunter
attended the annual conference of hunters and about
these sad events he did not know a thing.