Authors/Short Stories Flashcards by Summer Okerstrom

A Family Supper

Kazuo Ishiguro

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Miles City, Montana

Alice Munro

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An Upheaval

Anton Chekhov

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The Garden Party

Katherine Mansfield

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Eveline

James Joyce

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Muggins Here

David Mitchell

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The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas

Ursula K LeGuin

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Bartleby

Herman Melville

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Dead Men’s Path

Chinua Achebe

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The Book of Sand

Jorge Luis Borges

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Seventeen Syllables

Hisaye Yamamoto

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“‘Since the firm folded,” he said, ‘I have a little more time on my hands.’ He laughed again, rather strangely. For a moment his face looked almost gentle. ‘A little more time’”

A Family Supper
Kazuo Ishiguro

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“it always seemed to me, when I recall this scene, that Cynthia turns very gracefully toward me, then turns all around in the water—making me think of a ballerina on point—and spreads her arms in a gesture of the stage. “Dis-ap-peared!” Cynthia was naturally graceful, and she did take dancing lessons, so these movements may have been as U have described. She did say “Disappeared” after looking around the pool, but the strangely artificial style of speech and gesture, the lack of urgency is more likely my invention.”

Miles City, Montana
Alice Munro

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“all sorts of absurd ideas came into her mind”

An Upheaval
Anton Chekhov

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“never in her life had she been subject to such an outrage, never had she been so deeply insulted…She, well-educated, refined, the daughter of a teacher, was a suspect of theft; she had been searched like a street-walker!”

An Upheaval
Anton Chekhov

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“she was so disgusted with Fedosya Vassilyevna, who was so obsessed by her illnesses that her supposed aristocratic rank, that everything in the world seemed to have become coarse and unattractive because this woman was living in it”

An Upheaval
Anton Chekhov

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“the gardener had been up since dawn, mowing the lawns and sweeping them”

The Garden Party
Katherine Mansfield

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“Oh, how extraordinarily nice workmen were, she thought”

The Garden Party
Katherine Mansfield

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“little faint winds were playing chase in at the tops of the windows, out at the doors. And there were 2 tiny spots of sun, one on the ink pot, one on a silver photograph frame, playing too”

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The Garden Party
Katherine Mansfield

“she sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue. Her head was leaned against the window curtains and in her nostrils was the odour of rusty cretonne. She was tired.”

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Eveline
James Joyce

“but in her new home, in a distant unknown country, it would not be like that. Then she would be married—she, Eveline. People would treat her with respect then. She would not be treated as her mother had been. Even now, though she was over nineteen, she sometimes felt herself in danger of her father’s violence”

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Eveline
James Joyce

“She stood up in a sudden impulse of terror. Escape! She must escape! Frank would save her. He would give her life, perhaps love, too. But she wanted to live. Why should she be unhappy? She had the right to happiness. Frank would take her in his arms, fold her in his arms. He would save her”

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Eveline
James Joyce

“all the seas of the world tumbled about her heart”

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Eveline
James Joyce

“thank you for returning our lost sheep”
“down on the towpath there’s fisherman, not moving”
“just treating people like you’d want to be treated if the shoe was on the other foot…”
“past the bridge, under a big sycamore, the path forks”

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Muffins Here
David Mitchell

“The place they got towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all”

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Ursula K LeGuin

“he seemed alone, absolutely alone in the universe. A bit of wreckage in the mid-Atlantic”

Bartleby, the Scrivener Herman Melville

“strangely huddled at the end of the wall—his knees drawn up, an lying on his side, his head touching the cold stones—I saw the wasted Bartleby. But nothing stirred”

Bartleby, the Scrivener Herman Melville

“Going up stairs to my old haunt, there was Bartleby silently sitting upon the banister at the landing”

Bartleby, the Scrivener Herman Melville

“beautiful hibiscus and allamanda hedges in brilliant red and yellow marked out the carefully tended school compound from the rank neighbourhood bushes”

Dead Men’s Path Chinua Achebe

“the whole purpose of our school… is to eradicate just such beliefs as that. Dead men do not require footpaths”

Dead Men’s Path Chinua Achebe

“let the hawk perch and let the eagle perch”

Dead Men’s Path Chinua Achebe

“the line consists of an infinite number of points; the plane, of an infinite number of lines; the volume, of an infinite number of planes; the hyper volume, of an infinite number of volumes… No—this, more geometrico, is decidedly not the best way to begin my tale.”

The Book of Sand Jorge Luis Borges

“Rosie ran between two patches of tomatoes, her heart working more rambunctiously than she had ever known it to. How lucky it was that Aunt Taka and Uncle Gimpachi had come tonight, thought, how very lucky. Otherwise she might not have really kept her half-promise to meet Jesus Carrasco. Jesus was going to be a senior in September at the same school she went to…”

Seventeen Syllables Hisaye Yamamoto

“I dipped my fingers into the water, then climbed in and sat down on the tin floor of the bath in that reassuring kitchen in front of the huge fire, and I leaned back in the hot water”

The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman

“I was horrified, but it was initially the horror of something happening against the established order of things. I was fully dressed. That was wrong. I had my sandals on. That was wrong. The bath water was cold, so cold and so wrong”

The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman

“My father did not like toasters. He toasted bread under the grill, and, usually, he burnt it”

The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman

“The old woman gave me a lump of honeycomb, from the Hempstocks’ own beehive, on a chipped saucer, and poured a little cream over it from a jug. I ate it with a spoon, chewing the wax like gum, letting the honey flow into my mouth, sweet and sticky with an aftertaste of wildflowers”

The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman

“A flash of resentment. It’s hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world and find your place in it, to do the things you need to do to get by, without wondering if the thing you just did, whatever it was, was worth someone having… given up her life. It wasn’t fair”

The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman

“There was a wrestling match at the ticket window instead of a queue, because everyone wanted to be first; and as most people were carrying chickens or children or other bulky items, the result was a free-for-all out of which feathers and toys and dislodged hats kept flying”