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Back to the cottage

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Midland, 2004.09.25

Mum is here for Yvonne's 75th birthday party. She and I and my girlfriend have fled the city for the cottage, in hopes of catching the tail end of the decent weather. It's cool up here, and the place is in the usual disarray, but it's always good coming up.

rand()m quote

Remove everything that has no relevance to the story. If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there.

—Anton Chekhov