Ohhh my gosh. I love it, really helped me get over the fact that he's gone. I'm obviously crying now, (I'm such a softy!) but I feel so much better. And the picture you mentioned? That really broke me down. Then the phone conversation with Sid when he called him a hockey player? I had to put it down for a second. I know you said you wrote this for closure for yourself and others, so thank you.
That was great! I really like how you tackled the issue of Max playing for the "enemy" team in this situation. I enjoyed all the feelings and potential strains on a friendship something like this could do. More importantly, I loved how it worked out as well as it could under the circumstance. There was just something so real about it. Great job!
Damn there was a definite year in my eye. Great descriptive language throughout, it really added to the emotions and feel of the story. Good stuff as always!
I remember that goal. I was watching a tv in the back of a venue of a concert I was at. After he scored no one came near me for fear of getting their head ripped off lol. The point of that was that if I still remember it, I can't even imagine how Fleury felt. I think you do a great job of covering it though. Also I loved the ending of chapter 2. It really hits home on how hard this is for Fleury to accept and how unexpected he found it.
I think you really have their bromance down to a science lol. It is pretty uncanny how you can sit back and take everything in and write it so objectively and awesome. I am extremely jealous. It's like you can just see through people and that brings a very sincere and special element to your writing that I really enjoy. I love your story!
I love this... I like how it is different than most fan fics! I love the book "the boys of winter". One of my favorites and I'm obsessed with miracle on ice!:)
Gosh you are good. I am certaintly fighting back tears and all their great memories keep on rushing through my mind. I think now, his absence is finally hitting me full force. When you wrote of all the things that they could no longer do, that hit me hard. Point is, they have the best romance ever. Now tell me this: how cold you write this? That takes some major skill and composure :) Yep I'm crying now :/ Haha, great work as always :)
Ugh when Fleury cries its almost like you just HAVE to cry too. I was so mad when he left, mainly it was the fact he just left Fleury here (thank God Max didn't take him too) but I was kind of convinced that Philadelphia would be the end of their friendship. This story really helped me hope that they can still remain great friends because it is hard to believe you could ever have Max without Marc.
Thanks for writing this because it helped ease the loss of Max a little bit. Your writing clearly understood both points of view and the reality of trades in the NHL. It also helped me get into the mindset that Max might have had when he left too. I liked his train of thought in this, it was really believable and I wouldn't be surprised if some of those thoughts had actually occured to both of them. It was incredibly realistic and I think that's what makes this work so awesome.
It was really good and I hope you do well in the contest because you deserve it. Personally, I think you should win based on the fact that is like the greatest bromance in the NHL lol.
I love your writing in this story, but I don't think I can let myself love the story. It still hurts that Max left us for Philly, and reading about it makes it sting. I do hope you keep going though, cause like I said it is really good writing :)