Explore "Bleedback" by Winston K. Marks on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
_It was just a harmless, though amazing, kid's toy that sold for less than a dollar. Yet it plunged the entire nation into a nightmare of mystery and chaos...._
The thing is over now, but I can't see a Teddy bear or a set of blocks in a department store window without shuddering. I'm thankful I'm a bachelor and have no children around to remind me of the utterly insane nightmare that a child's toy plunged our country into -- the millions of people who died in agony -- the total disruption and near dissolution of our nation.