Until night they shifted new furniture around a room redecorated while still alive and consequently now dead. He had no idea what they were trying to do and just wanted to go to bed.
He found a note in the kitchen, and even a plan of where the furniture needed to go. She had thought it through. She always left him notes if he was asleep when she went out in the morning. At one time that had been so he should not be frightened to find himself alone in the apartment, and no doubt with time it had become a habit. Then, one day there was a phone call from her work to say his mother had asked him not to worry, she would not he coming home that night because she was in hospital. Someone was calling on her behalf, but had such difficulty choosing their words he was scared. It was a disturbingly
