Mr. Palmer killed the farmer.
He hadn’t meant to hit the man so hard, or so many times. He only wanted to threaten him, to scare him, to make him stop.
Intentions don’t matter much now, he thought. Not now. Not with him standing red-handed over a corpse that once looked like a man.
Mr. Palmer hid the farmer.
He tried to drag the body through the house, but stopped at the end of the hall.
His doctor had told him that at his age he should be avoiding manual labour, and the leg kept slipping from his bloody hands, and he was just making more mess.
He took off his clothes there in the hall and dropped them over what used to be a head. It didn’t matter that the eyes were mush and no longer attached to anything, he didn’t like being naked in front of others and this was no exception.
He took a long shower. Maybe he was crying, it was wet, he couldn’t tell.
The man had no friends, and his family lived in the city. His house was in the centre of a property the size of Malta, and he had no telephone. Mr. Palmer had time.
(There you go SLAM, I wrote half a new thing)