Donald Alan Freem is only eight, but he’s been institutionalized because of delusions that a time-traveling alien gave him the power to make people do whatever he wants.
I made you say that.

Variants

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  1. “Linkage” by Barry N. Malzberg, in Demon Kind, edited by Roger Elwood (Avon Books, March 1973).
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Barry N. Malzberg