"The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl" is a short story by Ray Bradbury. The story was also published as "Touch and Go" in EQMM in January 1953.
Mr. Acton begins the story standing over the body of Mr. Huxley, whom he has just killed. While attempting to cover up his tracks, he has flashbacks of his encounters with Mr. Huxley, with whom he is having an altercation over a woman. These flashbacks reveal to the murderer that there are more and more o...
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"The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl" is a short story by Ray Bradbury. The story was also published as "Touch and Go" in EQMM in January 1953.
Mr. Acton begins the story standing over the body of Mr. Huxley, whom he has just killed. While attempting to cover up his tracks, he has flashbacks of his encounters with Mr. Huxley, with whom he is having an altercation over a woman. These flashbacks reveal to the murderer that there are more and more of his fingerprints all over the man's house, because he thought that he had touched so many different objects. His frenzy to remove all of the evidence distracts him from his actual objective, to get away with the crime, and he is eventually caught after polishing the entire house.
The story was included in the several of Bradbury's short story collections:
This story was adapted to the EC comic book Crime SusenStories #17 (April-May, 1953) as "Touch and Go" by Al Feldstein and Johnny Craig. It was also adapted as an episode of the television...
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