After reading an excerpt from Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons in class, students wrote the following miniature pieces (within the space of ten to fifteen minutes).
Deep Glass
Zalán Kaposvári
Deep deep, very deep will you look at it. It is a little, little more than blue, since it is not iron. Through the glass, through the glass, you will taste it and as a canopy, it starts to get higher, higher. Higher to the sky, to the sky, which is green. But you will feel it only in the hardest one, only in the coldest one.
Departure
Viktória Botka
A curtain blocking the way, the view, the light. The light passing the way through time, overgenerations of curtains, dark and light, with lace trimmings and flower patterns. The light being heavy and the heavy becoming weightless in the tricks of time. But if time were tricks, why were tricks not time? It is the precise thought that is known not yet to be a time-tricker.
The leaves of a tree shouldn’t only be green. They should not leave the tree when they turn dark. The dark leaves and the sun shine on the leaves, but it burns them, and there they vanish. They leave. The leaves leave the leaf of the loaf, the loaf of the leaves that left. The tree loaf that shines on the Sun with its dark leaves that is leaving the leafy green trunks.
Physics Is Hard
Márk Kovács
Iron is not a food and so as orange is not an ore. It is likely you search for the other pair of socks and instead you find a piece of wood. A break is nothing without the blue sky and a cow is not a monkey. When you go fishing you are not the fish. If someone calls your dog a cheese then you are the owner of a grilled cheese.
Who Thinks Twice?
Áron Kaposvári
High up look the sky, and you will find it. It is shiny as a five-legged table. Having summits five in total, it can walk through the sea all day. No, you’re not right, it isn’t a star. Think more. An organism that can eat rocks, walk on four legs and search no more has come. A place of a very foundness you are thinking is. How could you think it was yesterday and red too. The answer star. Likely change the likely the colour, as it is already known it is invented.
Nonsense
Fanni Farkas
When you dream you eat a tea kettle, whenever anyone tries to fly. It says on the glass that it is caroling kids coming home. After doing the dishes we go out on a Tuesday, like the gum on my shoe. Santa Claus is a book written in my backyard. It is a Nonsense Christmas.
Fairies singing, sleighbells ringing, are you bored yet? I thought I should let the light in when I ate a house with three marshmallows. Seeing all the beautiful ugly crabs in my hair. So wrap it up and go back to dance.
Make an Explosion
Dominik Nemcsok
A book, a chair stairs is cat hair tomorrow drink. Bartender horrow is not the sun. Michael case the weather is singing potatoes. Tee tomato volcano is shopping riddles. Theater salty strong lead nowhere. Pen is circle the house isn’t pink. The zoo flies chair project sponge.
Multiple Meanings
Márk Gál
The flesh is not wine, when it’s white or not red or environment. The white flesh is the red milk from a grey wall which is Gertrude while she is Nonsense in a particular kind of way of kindling kind. So this makes the finders jiggle when crouch is water. This is very yes and no.
As the Sky Begins to Darken
Eszter Forvith
As the sky begins to darken the Sun is rising at the horizon. The stars are already shining in the clear blue sky and I hear the ducks singing. At the nearby pond a few hens are running in the water to cool themselves from the summer heat. A sudden snowstorm carries me back to the house and I can’t enjoy the comfortable warmth of the Moon anymore.
Flowers
Nóra Molnár
Black is not white. The difference is prepared. A color isn’t chosen. It was chosen yesterday when it was today, that showed increasing. Supposing you do not like the color, supposing you don’t want to change, supposing you like dogs. Dogs aren’t cats, and cats aren’t dogs. None of them are birds living in the water.
Wisdom of Horses
Sára Timár
You need to realize the green looks away turning out when it is twisted above the style. Frustrating tossed all of the horses like it’s red or something graceful. The sense that in order is not with the body parts and chocolate fountain raising its hand like a knee. It is not real within the cafe and the TV.
Bricks
Ádám Csabai
Depleted uranium is not offensive to the native aircrafts. Suggesting that armor is really a continent. Holding it makes water wet and grass longer, meaning that the lifespan of a block of concrete is tasty just like lead. Having such unknown binoculars, showing a singularity shall be sacrificed, just like helicopters on a blood moon.
Demon Time
Léda Karamzin
Interest in stars and colours. A colour and a thought going up and down plus around and around. Maybe it can talk and also melt when the difference is extraordinary. It awakens a silence and makes mistakes along the way.
Big Dreams
Dániel Szutorisz-Pető
I don’t want to write about nonsense, so I will buy a car. It has been sixteen years since I started saving up. I want to go home.