The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl

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The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl is a short story by Ray Bradbury from the collection The Golden Apples of the Sun.

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Mr. Acton begins the story standing over the body of Mr. Huxley, who 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 a altercation over another 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.