“I discovered Hitler the summer I turned twelve,” Michael Clune writes of the summer he spent playing the computer game “Beyond Castle Wolfenstein” in his Granta essay, “World War II Has Never Ended.”
As the summer progresses, history is made and re-made in the fictive universe. Eventually, the lines between the real world and the world of the computer game start to blur. Clune begins to sense the terrors of the game world in his daily life.
I crept up the stairs and crouched, peering at the public sidewalk through sweat and terror.
