Daily Drabble 332- Asylum
At the time, pretending to be nuts seemed a good idea. They’d only got him on two murders, and Tim figured it’d be easier as a headcase- hospital, not prison. “Recover” after a few years, get out.
That was decades ago. Probably longer than a prison stretch.
The problem was that when he dropped the performance, he’d revealed his true nature.
He was a serial killer, so his true nature was mad too, a quieter, slier insanity.
Tim thought he could beat the system.
But the doctors were better than he expected, and clearly, he was madder than he’d realised.