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a visit by my mother

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Vancouver, 2002.07.20

My mother arrived for a week's visit, this evening.

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