The Horrors of War

Burn Victim Sam Brown Treated With Virtual-Reality Video Game SnowWorld: Newsmakers: GQ: The next Easter, in 2010, Sam and Amy finally managed to take a proper honeymoon, to Hawaii. One afternoon, swimming in the hotel pool, Sam was in one of those rare moments where, without medication, he felt no pain, felt like his old self, and he didn't harbor a doubt in his mind as to why the most beautiful girl at the hotel was sunning herself on a towel, waiting for him and only him. She made the world around them bloom into something that not even the best VR architect could ever have conceived. There was no beating this actual water, this actual sun, this actual wife. Then this actual kid, this 4-year-old shit who'd been porpoising around, came up for air right in front of Sam, and you could see the kid thought he'd come face to face with the Creature from the Black Lagoon. Maybe if it had been another time, Sam would have let it go, but this time, jerked so abruptly out of his bliss, he snapped: "You know, if you don't wear sunscreen like your mother tells you, you'll end up looking like me!"