Summary

A man stood in his kitchen and observed the furniture he had set up in the front yard. He had arranged it in the exact way it had appeared in the house. He sipped some whiskey while thinking about his side of the bed, and her side of the bed (3). He had not only put the bedroom furniture outside, but the living room furniture, and the "aluminum kitchen set" (3). The kitchen set took up a lot of the driveway. The television was propped on the coffee table near the sofa and a chair, "and a floor lamp" (3). Before taking everything out and arranging it, he had emptied out the drawers and closets and stuffed their contents into boxes. After everything was set up, he ran an extension cord out to the yard, connecting the power on the lamps, the television, and the other...