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.