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The next chapter of Universal and Blumhouse's horror thriller will see the return of writer-director James DeMonaco.
The sequel to The Purge will invade theaters on Friday, June 20, 2014.
The next chapter of Universal and Blumhouse's horror thriller will see the return of writer-director James DeMonaco.
The first film -- starring Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey -- was a massive hit when it opened in theaters in early June this year. The horror thriller, made for about $3 million, surprised Hollywood when it scared up $34 million on its opening weekend. It has earned $89.3 million worldwide to date.
The film was set in a society where once a year, there's a 12-hour period when all crime is allowed and condoned.
Producer Jason Blum and Universal announced that they would move forward with a sequel on June 10.
Returning alongside writer-director-producer DeMonaco and Blum to produce the next chapter of the thriller are Sebastien Lemercier and Platinum Dunes partners Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form.
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The Ivy League Heptagonal Championships are in NY this weekend, and it got me to thinking. Why can't "I" be a track star? Well, truth of the matter is, I can't can't be. Dig those double negatives?
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The good thing about being stressed about work, is that you can't sleep. If you can't sleep, you get up. So, I am up earlier than normal, allowing me extra time to spark, and make and eat breakfast, without wolfing it down on the way out the doo... Read more
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Be ready for joy to appear in your life and it may surprise you.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Zak Brown has turned down an offer to join the IndyCar Series, choosing instead to remain with the motorsports marketing company he founded.
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If we move to a truly cashless society, it won't be much of an adjustment for most Americans. Sixty-nine percent of Americans carry $50 or less in cash on a daily basis, and an additional 9 percent don't carry any cash at all.
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Regarding financial security, consumers are again feeling downbeat; the Financial Security Index registered 98.7, declining for a second month in a row and indicating deterioration compared with one year ago for the second time in 2014.
The primary culprit in this month's decline is job security, as Americans apparently were not swayed by the strong April jobs report. Feelings on job security turned negative for the first time in six months.
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People weren't exaggerating with the whole "Surveillance camera?" "Stealth?" dialogues behehe, never noticed it when I was a kid...
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PedroJensen What are you referring to?
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Gries David Hayter constantly repeats everything the other person he's talking to said a second prior, it's like he can't believe how stupid kojima's script really is.
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PedroJensen I can't believe how full of hate you sometimes seem to be.
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Doctor Eggnog It's kind of an anime thing in general. It's just taken to the next level in MGS.
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Bob GutSmasha It doesn't ruin the game or anything, it's just funny now that I know what to look for because it happens in just about every cutscene.
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Gries A HIND D?! Colonel, what's a Russian gunship doing here?
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Doctor Eggnog CORN FLAKES!?
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Not Important I love the way Hayter says WAT? Every time something mildly surprising happens. It's absolutely 100% great.
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Time to play this again, just to celebrate finishing MGSV
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Silent Gamer "A surveillance camera?!?"
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Pudding Explo, the game holds up remarkably well. Played it again last year and I'd still give it a 10!
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Bob GutSmasha Yeah, there's actually a lot of detail for a PSX game; there's something really cool and focused about the story too.
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This might interest a few of you fanboys since y'all addicted to V at the minute.
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I haven't played nearly enough to rate it, but so far this game is a disappointment. I like how the stealth works, and the story so far is intriguing, albeit sometimes the cutscenes can drag at times (I'm ok with this since Hideo Kojima put a lot of effort into the characterization), but Metal Gear Solid has some of the worst controls I've used in ANY video game I've ever played. The camera can't be adjusted, and the aiming system for the guns is pretty much designed to get you killed (as though Konami couldn't make the enemies actually dangerous and instead had to make Snake play like a cripple to encourage you to use stealth). It's one thing to die because you legitimately screwed up; it's another to die constantly because you can't properly aim a friggin pistol. This game was made in 1998; it's not like there was no feasible way to make the enemies challenging but still have a good aiming system. I'm shocked that, from what I hear, this is also true with the sequels.
Gries MGS 4, ground Zeroes and Peace Walker are the only entries in the series that have decent to good gameplay. If you priotise controls over presentation, then the Splinter Cell franchise might be more up your alley. Imho Splinter Cell 1-3 > MGS 1-3
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nameplz Thanks. Also I think MGS3 isn't that bad if you play Subsistence, from what I hear, since it has a 3rd person camera. I'm just a bit baffled as to why every review here gives MGS a 9 or a 10, and half of them even say it was good at the time, as though that automatically means it will stand up today. Games can tell great stories because they are interactive, but when there's a glitch in the interactivity (ie crap control), the story goes down the toilet. Snake's supposed to be the best soldier on the planet, for crying out loud, yet he can't even shoot a gun!
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Metal Gear Solid was a game I got many Christmases ago and my first foray into the world of tactical stealth gameplay. The puzzles presented to players are really cleaver, such as looking on the physical game case to find a codex number and, switching controller ports to effectively fight a certain boss. The characters were really nicely fleshed out too and listening to the stories of how the bosses came to be at Shadow Moses after Snake defeats them has always been something I was interested in revisiting.
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Metal Gear Solid changed the gaming landscape forever the day it was released. MGS showed the world (and the industry) what the medium was truly capable of. Games were no longer simply a fun past-time activity. Games were a chance to completely immerse players into believable worlds filled with characters you deeply cared about, boosted by a story that would keep you on your toes up until the very end. MGS is, without a doubt, a masterpiece and a true classic. One that hasn't aged a single day. And for all of that and more, Kojima deserves all the praise of this world.
Pros: Fantastic cast of characters, extraordinary and thought-provoking writing, amazing voice acting, incredible story(telling), excellent music, brilliant game design, awesome visuals, great gameplay and level design that hold up well to this day, superb and highly memorable boss fights, the little things that blow your mind, impeccable atmosphere
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Erektionsite Hey that "/" was an essential part of the game! I wouldn't consider it a con.
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Gries Backtracking for a sniper rifle was the only part about this game I didn't like when I first played it in 2012. Truly a masterpiece. The Best is Yet to Come is probably one the best songs ever used in a video game.
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Pudding I usually don't like backtracking, but those 2 times you were forced to backtrack in MGS weren't that bad, since it took you at most 15mins to do it.
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Brent Adams wrote his opinion about Metal Gear Solid
The title that defined the 'modern era' of gaming for me. Cinematic (perhaps to a fault), ridiculously creative, and always fun. This was the high-water mark in gaming for years afterward. The open-ended play style that allowed players to approach each situation or problem with their own strategy (whether stealth or action or both) made for an exceedingly rewarding experience and offered countless opportunities for replay.
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Though its age shows, Metal Gear Solid is still a masterpiece that is still mind-blowing to this day. The gameplay is top-notch but I feel like MGS shines the most when it comes to the soundtrack and story telling. The way each of the cinematic cutscenes are presented makes this game feel like an interactive movie done better than some of Hollywood's best efforts. Everything in the game shows high quality form the well-developed characters to each of the memorable boss fights. I now realize why this game is widely considered one of the best games of all time.
Aramonde You beat it pretty fast, now im interested to see if you like MGS2.
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benace75 Well not yet but I wanted to say my opinions of the game now because now that school started for me, it might be a little while until I can play it again. I'm pretty sure that I'm almost half-way through though.
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Gries MGS 2 is the worst piece of shit ever, according to some frantic lunatics on teh internets. And me.
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nodley wrote his opinion about Metal Gear Solid
Dated now but in its day awesome.
Aramonde that game to this day is still great. If you can get past the graphics.
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Nooo! Metal Gear Solid has already fallen from the top spot... you heathens!
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In the seemingly never-ending debate as to whether games are art or not, MGS is an example I always quote when making the point that, yes, indeed, they can be. It breaks the fourth wall on a regular basis (for instance during the Psycho Mantis fight) and requires the player to reflect on his or her virtual bloodlust. For the sake of sounding hopelessly pretentious, it's probably the first postmodern video game ever made. Oh, and it's rather awesome too.
Firion wrote his opinion about Metal Gear Solid
Stealth Action Redefined. Although not untrue this statement barely scratches the surface. This is one of the earliest and most important games to prove that video games can tell real meaningful stories. The gameplay is fun, unique, tight, and pulse pounding but the story shines more than anything. When you play this game you really feel like you're the main character Solid Snake, you feel like you're sneaking around enemies and learning more about the mission, and you learn to not always believe what you're told. It's a game that feels real, the story feels plausible despite how unlikely it is, it's a piece of fantasy set in the real world. The graphics may not hold out, but the soundtrack, gameplay, story and characters make up for i
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Metal Gear Solid changed how everyone developed cutscenes in video games. The polygon animation now looked more lifelike than ever before. The director, Hideo Kojima, created one of the most memorable storylines involving genetic experiments and nuclear weapons. No other game has been able to replicate the same grim theatrics as Metal Gear Solid.
Aramonde wrote his opinion about Metal Gear Solid
It was the first game that introduced me to serious storytelling in games. The voice acting is one of the best in medium. The boss battles your so unique especially Psycho Mantis. It put the stealth action genre on the map. The graphics don't hold up well now, but anything from the PS1/N64era rarely does.
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Our prevailing winds are easterlies so the krap blows right over us including into roadsides which shows why Tap Mun is always showing high NOx
Euro 5 diesel is 0.005 parts per million sulphur whereas bunker fuel is 2.75-4% sulphur.
Without an Emissions Control Area for shipping (USA ECA is 200 miles) the ships will continue to belch sulphur & RSP particulates into the air
Our developer friendly former administrations allowed downtown business areas to be overbuilt with no space to allow the wind into the urban canyons they create so pollutants are trapped.
China is building highly polluting incinerators over the border.
The WHO study will have some serious contributors to include.
There are 2 reasons for this statement: a) other jurisdictions do not subsidize private bus companies with vehicle replacement. HK's bus companies are just waiting for the best handout before replacing their aging fleets. And b) our govt has done NOTHING but talk for the past 15 years when during this time the entire fleet could have been replaced over this period.
This WHO link now gives govt the opportunity to waste a few more years talking about the problem instead of taking action. We have the money; let's just nationalize the bus companies and make the fleet part of Mass Transit Bus Corporation, a wholly owned govt corporation operating our bus fleet as a non-profit for the benefit of HK citizens.
While govt is at it, it can buy out the minority shareholders in the MTRC and turn MTRC into a non-profit company as well. What business does MTRC have in investing in rail systems in China as was in the Post a few days ago?
Ditto for the Airport Authority.....I could go on and on.
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The vessel polluters are in focus by the government and have rules in banning the polluter.
For road vehicles we must keep an eye on the government not colluding with the oil suppliers anymore. I still stand on my suspicion the very close relationships between them once upon a time.


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Dancing with the Banshee
July 1, 1863 - 10 p.m
The syrupy night air swaddled the Second Brigade like a damp blanket, as a million flying, buzzing things vied for the blood of the troops. The column clattered along the dusty pike with little complaint save the sighs of men marched 30 miles.
Colonel Kelly halted his mount at the edge of the road and slipped his pocket clock from his sash. Glancing at the time he spoke to the dark officer at his left, "Best to let the men rest now, Captain. Pass the order to bivouac."
Captain Myles O'Rourke spurred his mount to the head of the column. A moment later the order echoed along the train of blue-clad soldiers:
"88th New York! Fall out, stack arms!"
"69th New York! Fall out, stack arms!"
"28th Massachusetts! Fall out, stack arms!"
"116th Pennsylvania! Fall out, stack arms!"
Captain O'Rourke returned to the Colonel's side. The sticky, liquid air carried the all-too familiar aroma of death. Colonel Kelly turned to O'Rourke. "The lads will need their rest. I've heard from General Hancock. There was a grand fight today and it looks like we'll oblige General Lee to give us more of the same tomorrow."
"I'm sure the boys will fall into sweet oblivion once their heads touch the ground," the Captain replied.
"Molly's not been singing to them?" the Colonel inquired, one eyebrow cocked.
O'Rourke only smiled as the Colonel chuckled, "Ah, the superstitious lads of the Irish Brigade. T'would seem we've infected the Germans and the Swedes. Now their commanders complain that their men fret the banshee's wail."
"You don't say, now?" the Captain grinned.
"Aye, General Hancock's quite beside himself about it. Says we've got a modern New World army with Old World superstitions. Bad for the morale, he says."
The Captain shook his head, "I'll wager General Hancock never heard Molly's song."
"Do what you can, Myles," Colonel Kelly urged gently. "I want my boys to have some peace before they face the Furies again."
Captain O'Rourke tipped his hat to his commander and rode off down the turnpike.
He had ridden about a half-mile when he encountered Cavanaugh leaning against a rail fence. Not far from where Cavanaugh stood a young soldier was making mighty exertions in the high grass. As the Captain pulled up his mount he saw it was Private Rafferty paying his respects to the big, copper-hued backside of Cherokee Kate.
"Sergeant," he said to Cavanaugh, though his eyes were riveted to Rafferty. The Private was riding his mount at full gallop. Kate turned to look up at O'Rourke, greeting him with a wide toothy grin.
"Sir!" Cavanaugh replied.
"The order was given to bivouac, why do you tarry here?"
"Beggin' the Captain's pardon," Cavanaugh replied, "Private Rafferty is on his honeymoon with the darlin' Katie. I've given them permission to consummate their vows in fifteen minutes."
"Have you now?" O'Rourke said, trying to stifle his laughter. "How many times does it make now, that Rafferty has spoken the vows?"
"Seven times since Fredericksburg, four with Katherine here, twice with Dirty Lucy and once with the little mulatto girl who died of the fever. Can't ever remember her name."
Kate was still grinning and grunting as Rafferty gallantly assaulted her monumental ramparts. "Hello, Captain Myles," she said in a child's voice.
"Good evening to you, you Cherokee princess," O'Rourke replied, doffing his hat and bowing from his horse like a cavalier of old.
At last, Rafferty burst upon her walls and captured her flag, though surrender was hardly unknown to Kate. Rafferty stood and hurriedly pushed his lance back into his trousers. He saluted smartly to the Captain.
Rafferty was all of 20 years old. His face, gravelly with small pox scars, made him look older, and reflected all the death and horror he had seen over the past two years. A boyish, if forlorn, nature endured, however, and the lad had a wit that served him well.
"Captain," Rafferty said, "I'm not flouting discipline, it's just that ... since Fredericksburg I've decided a man ought to do what he wants to do when he has the time. I don't think it's right to waste life on niceties."
"Is that so, Private?"
"It is, Sir."
Cavanaugh smiled at O'Rourke who paused before replying to the young soldier. "Private, return to the bivouac, but I'm afraid your bride will have to take her place with the rest of the regimental followers."
The Captain tossed a silver dollar to Kate, who sat, Indian-style, on the grass. "There, my gift to the bride."
"Get along with ya, son," Cavanaugh said, gently patting the boy's shoulder. Rafferty marched away, not looking back at Kate, who raised up her bulk and waddled off in the opposite direction, but only after blowing kisses to O'Rourke and Cavanaugh.
"He's a good lad," Cavanaugh said. "Like as not, what he says makes a lot of sense."
"There were so many more like him when we started, Cavanaugh," O'Rourke said, his dark grieving eyes trailing after Rafferty and the shades of a hundred youths who had gone before him.
"Sergeant, how are the boys, what's their mood?"
"They'll stand and fight, like they always have, if that's what's troubling you, Captain."
"I know that, but ... are they ... have they ..."
"Molly's been singing to them all the night, Sir. She hasn't been in such fine voice since Fredericksburg." Cavanaugh stopped and cocked his ear. "There, Sir, do you not hear it?"
O'Rourke did hear the wailing, melancholy peel from the surrounding woods. He had heard it many nights before a battle. The men had taken to calling her Molly, the Irish Brigade's own Banshee. She was practically a mascot, and over the past two years she had had her work cut out for her.
But Fredericksburg ... the night before the brigade was ordered to murder itself upon Marye's Heights, she sang to the boys like a despairing lover. Every lad crossed himself for the soul of his friend, for then no one who heard the banshee believed she wailed for him, and fell asleep with her dulcet voice in his ears, mourning his companions as if they were already lost to him.
O'Rourke and Cavanaugh stood together in that deadly hail the following day, heard the bullets' whistle and the thud-guish as they struck flesh, snap and crack when they struck bone, and watched the men crumple like heaps of rags. But it was the fine red mist that settled in their hair and beards and froze upon and stiffened their clothing that revisited O'Rourke in his most desperate nightmares. And he dreamt of plunging into the frigid Rappahannock to rinse himself of its sticky gore.
"Colonel Kelly wants the lads to sleep well this night, Cavanaugh. We'll all be in the thick of it again tomorrow."
"If I were a military genius like Bobby Lee," Cavanaugh said, fingers stroking his whiskered chin, "I'd have already turned and be running headlong to capture Washington. Why in the name of Sweet Mother Mary's garters would he pick a fight here?"
"Aye, you don't have to be a Bonaparte to see it. But, that's what he's done. And lo and behold, Cavanaugh, if we don't hold the higher ground."
"We had grand ground at Chancellorsville." Cavanaugh winked.
"Hmm, Meade's no Bonaparte, but he's no Hooker either. I'm thinking he's going to invite Lee to crash upon a hard rock shore."
A wail, sweet and horrible split the night.
"I wonder who keens for the Rebs," Cavanaugh said, eyes surveying the edge of the dark woods.
"Their mothers," O'Rourke replied.
The captain slid off his horse as another wail peeled from the woods. "I can't have that tonight. I'll have to have a bit of a talk with our Molly."
"You don't say so?"
"I do. Sergeant, let the pickets know I'll be reconnoitering these woods tonight."
"Er, Capt ... Myles ... for God's sake, boyo, are you knowing what you're about?"
"No, but I can't have her upsetting the lads tonight, not tonight."
O'Rourke patted Cavanaugh on the arm and strode toward the woods as the sergeant crossed himself.
The dulcet wailing lured him across the field, grasses entangling his boots with every other step. Sweat trickled down his brow stinging his eyes. As he stepped into the trees the heat slipped its sticky grasp, replaced by an unearthly chill. At first it was silent, then her keening burst upon his ears. He swung left thinking she stood beside him. But she was still some yards away.
He saw her eyes first, red glowing coals swirling in the dark. They steadied at O'Rourke's next step and glared. He was wondering if she had any form at all, as her eyes seemed to float inside a greenish-yellow vapor. As he drew closer he saw her green hair flowing and swirling on a phantom wind, like seaweed swaying in surf.
Closer still, and the vapors coalesced into a body that was gray-blue like a drowned corpse and clad in a tattered shroud. A stone cold blast struck his face like air gasped out of a tomb. He stood immobile. He had seen corpses in all stages of decay, but she was a corpse animated. This impossibility swirled around his brain, rendering him dumbstruck.
She broke the silence. "Myles O'Rourke. Sweet Myles, aren't you bold. Come to dance with the banshee?"
He swallowed and retrieved his voice. "Molly?"
"Molly? Am I Molly?" she laughed. Her laughter was carefree and girlish, and further confounded O'Rourke. His mind couldn't accommodate such an endearing sound emanating from this horrific spirit.
Again he forced himself to speak. "I'm sure I'm glad to call you by any name you'd like."
"Mor-Rioghan," she said, like a sigh riding upon a wind. "But Molly will do. I believe I like it."
O'Rourke nodded, "Then Molly it is."
"I asked if you've come to dance?" she mewed.
"Molly, sure t'would be my pleasure, but the truth of it is, I've come to ask you to forsake your keening for one night."
"Fey! You don't say so!" The burning embers of her eyes glowed hotter. "Do I not sing a sweet song to your precious soldiers blue? As tender as any mother's lullaby?"
"Aye, you do that, Molly dear. Beggin' your pardon, but it's just the lads need a good rest tonight, as they've some hot work facing them tomorrow."
"You dare ask Mor-Rioghan the Banshee not to sing her song? Why do you not ask the grass to stop being green, or birds not to soar?"
"One night, Molly, that's all I ask."
The spirit seemed to lose cohesion then coalesce again. "I'll grant what you ask, Myles O'Rourke, if you'll be doing something for me."
"I'll do what I can."
"Dance with me."
His mouth went sour even as he tried to dry-swallow. He was not sure what it meant to dance with a banshee, and cursed himself for forgetting most of his mother's faerie lore.
"Come dance with me, Myles," she purred through black lips. " It's been so long ... so long since I've skipped and swirled on the arm of a handsome warrior such as yourself."
He opened his mouth to speak just as she added, "I know you're not afraid, are ya?"
"I've been told, when invited to dine with the Devil, that it'd be best to use a long spoon."
Again that loving woman's voice. "I'm not the Devil, Myles. No harm will come to ye."
"Well, done and done."
He reached out for her hand that was cold as stone. She rested her other hand on his shoulder. Closing his eyes he slid his free hand around her icy hips. She began to hum a song his mother sang to him in Ireland and he twirled her among the dark arboreal sentinels.
A whistle began playing somewhere in the woods as they danced. She ceased humming and began to sigh. "Kiss me, Myles."
The thought of putting his lips to her blackened corpse's mouth horrified him. His eyes snapped open but were filled with pure white light. Now he felt a gentle, caressing breeze, a warm, tender zephyr, and heard surf foaming upon a shore.
He stood on a gently sloping, grassy hillside in warm sunshine and crystal clear air he could almost taste. He looked into the face of a pale, freckled woman with fiery flowing hair and sea-blue eyes. Her rich red lips just hinted of a playful smile before she kissed him full on his mouth, her tongue flicking behind his lips. Then she withdrew and grinned like a wicked schoolgirl.
"Who ... where ...?" O'Rourke croaked.
"Myles, me love," she laughed, "Do you not recognize your own dear Molly?"
"Am I not fair?" she smiled, twirling in a slow pirouette. She was clothedbut only in a manner of speakingin a gossamer blue garment of sheer transparence that danced on the gentle breeze as did her hair that would have otherwise hung to her knees. Her pale skin was lightly dappled in those vermilion Celtic spots. Pink circles around her nipples drew his eyes to her small, full breasts like twin beacons. She was long waisted above her saucy hips that tilted above perfect white thighs and coltish legs.
Bedazzled, O'Rourke's mind swirled at her beauty. She danced around him once, then stopped, hands on her hips and looked him straight in the face. Her eyes dropped, guiding his stare first to her deep navel and then to the bit of red angel fur that flickered over her sex like a pentecostal tongue of fire.
Her airy garment evaporated like fog in sunlight. His cock sprung to attention and he became aware that he was naked. His uniform was nowhere to be seen. His nakedness before her further fortified his rigid member.
Molly laughed aloud. "Oh, Myles, you do me a grand compliment."
He would have taken her then and there, but the rational part of his mind battled for an audience. At last he listened to its pleadings.
"Molly, where have you taken me?"
"Do you not remember, sweet Myles? Look around."
Myles surveyed the hillside and its barren beauty nearly brought him to tears. "Home," he said.
That same caressing breeze combed ribbons through the grasses. The hillside fell off quickly to a shore kissed by a gentle, but lively sea. The salty air delighted and refreshed him. He held his arms skyward and breathed in deeply.
Molly stepped toward him placing the palm of her small hand on his chest as if to caress his heart. "Will you not stay here with me, Myles? Will you not dance? Will you not love me?"
Music played on the wind as his hands slipped over her hips and cupped her buttocks. She was so soft, so fresh. He kissed her neck and shoulders and she whimpered in high girlish notes to each nip and nibble and swipe with his tongue. Her hardened nipples made urgent contact with his chest as his cock rose to nudge her moist sex.
Myles slowly brought his knees to the ground, kissing and tasting the slope of her breasts, the firm nubs of her nipples, her belly and deep navel where his tongue lingered to plumb its depths. Now he was eye-level with her pink-orange quim that was glazed with her juices.
"Taste," she urged.
His tongue sampled her dew. Honey? And the scent of lilacs exhaled from her moist womb.
Molly giggled, "Or would you prefer whisky and roses?"
"Molly," O'Rourke pleaded on his knees. "I know not if you are a woman, or merely the shade of a woman. No matter. I'd rather you smell and taste like a woman."
A soft smile replaced her grin. "Oh, that also can be arranged."
Now she was musk and just the slightest bit salty. Myles probed her with his tongue, savoring her taste, her aroma. His hands journeyed about her backside, thighs and up the small of her back. She shivered.
Now Molly kneeled, and then eased herself onto her back. Her legs spread wide, she invited Myles silently with just a flick of her fingers. Straddling her, he once again kissed her belly and let his tongue tarry in her navel. She took hold of the end of his cock and guided it into her.
Celtic drums and whistles played on the air around them as Myles drove his cock hard and deep into her hot wet space, and she answered with cries and whimpers that were themselves music. His mind raced with the fantastical wonder of what was happening and his lust melted in their heat and reshaped itself into love. Their rhythm seemed to match the pitch and yaw of the world itself.
Molly kissed his face and neck with a desperation, gently biting his ears and licking along his jaw line as if she were starved for the taste of him. His cheeks and ears burned from her kisses even as he plowed her wet velvet insides. Her breasts grazing beneath him urged him to give up his essence to her.
His seed boiled up and she cried out as he shot streams into her. Her eyes glowed like all the sunlight that ever shone off the world's oceans. "Ohhhh, Myles," she sang more than sighed.
He felt full of love for Molly. Love ... for Molly. The idea frightened him back into his wits and he lifted himself and his still-draining cock from her. She sat up, a slight hint of hurt in her eyes.
"What have you done, Molly?" he demanded. "Have you charmed me? Did you think I'd believe it was all real?"
Molly lifted herself to one knee. "It's real, Myles. As real as any place in the world. And we two can live and love here forever."
"I cannot, Molly," he said, even as his hands caressed the breasts he had nearly just devoured.
"Why not? Are you in such a hurry to run back to all that death?"
He chuckled. "Molly, now isn't that an odd thing for you to say? Would you exist if it weren't for death?"
"I don't take lives, Myles. I attend my station, and sing to the poor fools who stand just yards away while they hammer each other with fire, hot lead and glowing red iron. Death lives with soldiers. I don't say who dies and who doesn't. I only know when death will come."
"Oh, Molly," Myles sighed. "I've my station too, and it's to be with the lads. You must let me go back."
Molly's voice went flat. "You'll all fall like wheat before the reaper this day."
"If I must be part of that harvest, it must be so. Let me go back, Molly."
She touched his face. "Well, and done. I'll bide my time, Myles O'Rourke. I'll love you again, sure as not. And we'll dance into eternity."
"Molly, is there any way you could ... I mean ... can you shield the boys?"
"From death? I'm only a messenger, Myles. Death keeps her secrets close. Even I never know for sure who she'll claim."
Molly stood. Her eyes began to glisten as she said, "Goodbye, Myles," and kissed him.
* * *
"They slept like innocent babies," the Sergeant said. "The Captain is a charmer, I have no doubt. How did you get her to forsake her keening?"
O'Rourke only offered Cavanaugh a melancholy smile.
Colonel Kelly's aide approached O'Rourke.
"The Colonel's compliments, Captain, he asks that you move your men three miles up the pike and just south of the town, there to take up positions on the flank of the First Brigade at the edge of a wheat field."
"Like wheat," Myles whispered.
"Come again, Sir?"
"Nothing, Lieutenant. Convey to Colonel Kelly his orders are understood.
The aide saluted and hurried away.
The wheat field that afternoon became Hell's own acre. The Irish Brigade, brought up to support the ravaged First Brigade, drove the Rebels before them, taking many prisoners before an undetected Confederate force flanked the brigade, which had to withdraw under a murderous cross-fire. It was a fight like many in that long war, in which each side clawed at the other and ended the day with little gains to show except a harvest of death. That evening the cries of the wounded who littered the field became unbearable to hear. Men on both sides prayed aloud for release from their pain and thirst.
Sergeant Cavanaugh found Captain O'Rourke brooding at the edge of the field.
"Can't something be done, Captain? There be Rebs suffering out there too."
"Sergeant, the Colonel says we can seek a truce to clear the field. Besides, Father Corby has been exposing himself to sharpshooters on his rounds to deliver Last Rites. It's damned bad luck to lose a regimental chaplain. Of course, now that it's almost night, like as not we'll take a sharpshooter's bullet for our efforts, but, if you're game, secure a white flag."
Cavanaugh disappeared but returned quickly with a ragged white cloth. Together they strode onto the field to where they believed the Confederate line was. The cries and pleadings of wounded men, invisible in the darkness, composed a tortured symphony.
The white flag could have been any other flag in the dark and O'Rourke knew a bullet could crash through him at any moment.
He heard the bullet whistle past his head even before he heard the rifle crack.
A voice shouted from the woods, "Hold that fire! They're under a flag of truce. Hold fire!"
A moment later a slim, lanky Rebel lieutenant emerged from the trees followed by several infantrymen, rifles trained on O'Rourke and Cavanaugh. When the Lieutenant noticed O'Rourke's rank he saluted. "Sir, Lieutenant James Selby, 16th Georgia, Confederate States Army."
"Captain Myles O'Rourke, 69th New York Volunteer Infantry. Lieutenant, I've come to plead for a truce so we may attend the wounded and dying."
"I've been authorized to agree to any such plea, Sir." The Confederate added, "I must apologize for my rifleman. He's a tad bristly this evening."
"No apologies necessary, Lieutenant. I dare say we're all bristly this evening."
"If you don't mind my saying so, Captain, you must lead a charmed life. That rifleman never misses. Or rather, he didn't until tonight."
"You don't say, now? Well, there's always a first."
"Perhaps, Sir. Or perhaps you have a guardian angel."
"How so, Lieutenant?"
"He's a superstitious backwoodsman, my rifleman is. He said he was pulling the trigger when ... well, as he put it, he 'got skeered by a h'ant.'"
"Come again?"
"Said he was frightened by a ghost."
O'Rourke and the Lieutenant agreed to the terms and duration of the truce and parted. Walking across the blood-slick field O'Rourke's eyes were captured by a pair of burning embers glowing from the woods. Then that sweet, melodic woman's voice: "I'll bide my time, Myles O'Rourke. And you'll dance with me again ... and forever."
Copyright 1996 and on, Erotica Readers Association, Inc.
By Wimzcicle
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