Wonderful story!

Any reactions from the Marsh, McCormick, Cartman, and most important, Broflovski families? Are they even aware of what's going on? Or still alive? How does Ike feel about this?

If I didn't have a room mate I would be balling right now. I think you did a wonderful job on this, amazing. It was a great way of ending it, and the way it was written was... I can't even describe it. I love it as it is, but also can't wait to read your Epilogue. You are really a great writer who can come up with wonderful plot points and twists. Thank you for sharing your writing with us.

Thank you for updating this story! It was very emotional, you're an awesome storyteller.

I started reading this... damn, over a year ago, and I only just came back to see you have chapter 4 up. I want you to know this is just a fantastic piece of writing. It doesn't even count as fanfiction - it's on some whole other tier. Seriously. I sound soppy, probably, but really, I haven't felt this deeply about a story in the longest time.

We're all waiting for the epilogue, I'm sure. I almost want to track you down and smack you until you write it. So watch your back. WATCH IT.

This is literally the most well-written fanfiction I have ever read, and believe me, I have read many. You should be so proud.

I hope to read more of your work.

You are a brilliant writer- I am blown away.

~RG~

This.. uh..
this whole thing has made me want to cry.
Truth be told this has really got me down, and really.. ugh.. I don't even know. But I don't feel happy. I feel sad. I want to cry, like so much..

Because Stan and Kyle had a reunion, something that meant SOMETHING, and just because of that protection, and that /love/ it got taken away.

The way Stan had swept Kyle off of the sidewalk and into his arms. The way Kyle’s mouth moved against Stan’s, all the words he didn’t have to say.


.. so did Stan run to Kyle and kiss him a final time? God, please don't let Justice take it. ;_; Please. Fuck Justice. XD

This was amazing.. this was just.. the best frickin' story ever..

Oh my god, that story was beautiful. It was thrilling, I was biting my nails I was so anxious to see how it would end, and you ended in a way that I wasn't expecting! I never doubted that Kyle was guilty. Foodstamp, you are going on my author watchlist. I am going to read the rest of your stories.

After I read this story I felt like this: :'}

I feel like I've just finished playing Final Fantasy and the sepia credits are rolling and I'm foolishly clutching the controller, drained and elated and heartbroken at the same time. That ending *shattered* me, with the corkscrew twists and everything from the Kenny/Stan scene in the mountains onward. I'm so impressed that all the details you included in the previous chapters (the handwritten memos, the white sneakers) paid off. I actually think that the story is complete as-is, bittersweet and uncertain, but naturally the wounded fangirl in me wants that epilogue. Just to make sure.

oh jesus this story is so amazing. ensemble cast in the very best way. i just want to grab all these wounded characters and hug them tightly. butters the art teacher, dreamily scrawling his boyfriend's initials across concrete. craig the grocery worker with his sick wife and baby daughter, but still friends with token after all these years. serene father pip and wistful damien (and that is the first time in the history of ever that i have enjoyed pip/damien). i appreciated the mention of craig's family being the new McCormicks, just because it addressed the issue of kenny's background, which will always be a part of him.

and dare i see a kenny/gregory hookup on the horizon? i admit it's a bit strange reading a future!kenny fic in which he isn't sleeping with anybody (or mentions sleeping around), but the lack of romance makes sense given the plotline, and maybe he's changed from his libidinous teenage years. i maintain that your kenny characterization is the best part of the story.

Okay, you have pounded so many many of my fan weaknesses that it's a wonder I'm still conscious: wry, inherently decent Kenny POV! Cantankerous Mole! Icily competent, noble Gregory! Craig Tweek Thomas owning a business together! Cop banter & plot twists a-plenty!

And while I think the Style is a skosh melodramatic (how many high schoolers recognize True Love in a band-room quickie?), the pacing of the story is so brills that I'm plastered to the comp screen. For me, the real beauty of the fic is Kenny's voice -- just how much he *cares* about his job, his friends, his town. This was my favorite paragraph so far:

"I was not a seasoned detective. With the exception of Stan, everyone in my district was leagues above me, proficient and quick and experienced. But I had always loved people before I had loved the law, and as we drove back to South Park, quiet drops of autumn rain beading on the windshield, I knew that Gregory had just told me his first and last lie."

That line. "I had always loved people before I had loved the law." YES YES YES YES YES. That quiet humanity that persists beyond grime & horror.

This...so brilliant. I finished it in one sitting. As soon as I finished I had to rave about it to like three different people. I want this in hard copy! I think if you edited back- round information (and probably added some) and changed some character names, and send it into a publisher or an editor...you would be seriously considered. And using Kenny as the narrator?! BRILLIANT! You got everything you needed to achieve using him and it would have been so much worse if it was any other way. And I have so many questions! Did you have a plot lined out before you wrote this? And what inspired this? and then I'm just curious about your writing process and just...how you came to be so awesome!
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lol sorry, huge rant (with a whole bunch of errors I'm sure)... :)

I make a point of not reading story's that the author cracks down on in preceding notes, but something (*cough* review count) got me interested.

And well... wow. No words can do it justice.

What I love most about the story is that every word beams with such power. Every passage has a reason to be there. I'd struggle to take a single phrase away and not have the scene fall apart.

(considering you gave a 10 word review somewhere, this was quite the pleasant surprise.)

Then, the scene-setting. Awesome. The entire atmosphere was described so vividly, I just started to naturally feel along with it. The detergent/cologne smell thing? Brilliant. Even the flashback was done seamlessly.

I wasn't going to review till I red the entire thing. But I got through the first chapter and just felt the urge to shower you with praises. I don't know why you felt the urge to apologize for the story. It's like literary ambrosia.

This story is AMAZING. I loved every bit of it. Once you start reading you can't stop, it just pulls you in. =)

I never would've guessed the type of involvement of some of the characters in this whole thing. You thought of everything so cleverly.

I have never sobbed, from reading a fan fiction. I didn't cry, I sobbed. Sobbed.

Thank you for writing something so touching, so breathtaking, that it brought me to such a level of emotion.

This story is amazing! I love the mystery and the friendships. You are a great writer. I'll be waiting for your next work.