Short stories

01

Tébolyult háború

Cink

A tinsmith who loves zinc, and an Afghan war that never ends inside him.

02

Rossz helyen

A phone call, an official SUV and a church that, according to a developer, stands in the wrong place — a satire of village public life.

03

Rusztikus gasztro

Lunch in a Kádár-era restaurant: devilled eggs, Delikát seasoning, goulash paste and the everyday greyness of socialist gastronomy.

04

A mítikus retró

Anyád tyúkja

A guided tour of the exhibition „Hungarian feast of the last century” — retro as it never was.

05

Krimi

A Caribbean beach, a snow-white horse, an Italian heartbreaker — and an awakening in a trauma centre's operating theatre.

06

Nem vagyok én szent

Niké

The first pair of Nikes and a counterfeit PLIMA-PUMA: classroom gods and the small change of revenge.

07

Az irodalom bevadul

The „ámor” Literary Salon, where you can buy a writer at the market — a grotesque about patronage.

08

Selejtes szerelem

A memorial plaque above table eight of a restaurant: seven years, nine months, eight days.

09

Temető karate

Kedvencek temetője

A tailored suit, a freshly dug grave, three in the morning — a man who wakes up in a cemetery.

10

Életek metszéspontján

Hab

A man waiting for a casting call and a railway-station patisserie: two lives intersecting over the foam of a coffee.

11

Nem történik semmi

Coffee, a cigarette, a record player — the slowed-down afternoon of a man preparing for poetry day.

12

Biztos kezek

A litany of thanks for space research, the hunt, the order of nature — and a speeding-camera photo.

13

Édes a bosszú

The inner monologue of an online poetry evening that dissolves into counting viewers — on the border of literary admiration and envy.

14

Hiányzó helyiérték

Titkos szerelmem, Kate Beckinsale

A poem and its commentary about a secret love that turns out, after all, to be about one's wife.

15

Véres természetrajz

Monopoly

A board game and history: everyone remembers the rules differently.

16

Tukmálás

Kalapács

A dialogue about an album one is required to love — the small power game of persuasion.

17

Eladó az egész világ

The self-revealing catalogue of a suspiciously talkative classified-ad writer.

18

Huzat és vonat

The dating-site marriage of Ernő Messzenger and Vivi Iviv — a satire of verbal pratfalls and derailed self-images.

19

Kérdezed, hogy mi a szép a művészetekben?

Fragments on remembrance, music, and why we need art at all.

20

Tisztességtelen ajánlat

Szaki

An oilcloth-covered table in a shabby dive, and an offer that is hard to accept.

essay · 16 June 2026

Kilépés a Birodalmi Rohamosztagosok Szövetségéből

After thirty-six years, a personal reckoning with how a political community works, measured against the civic-conservative tradition — and the reasons for leaving it.