How did I miss an update from Mirage? A long awaited sequel to Forces of Nature. I can almost not believe it.
One hell of a ride this is!
This one's action and adventure right out of the gate. So much action and drama and your prose is beautiful, the plotting is genius, the setting of this is gorgeous. You touch all of the senses. This is an experience that leaves none of the senses neglected.
You leave no question about Jarod's frame of mind and the lengths he's gone to "PROTECT" Parker (from discovering what he has done to her!)
You really got inside the mind of sociopathJarod!
Sydney's confrontation is painful, and stunning.You really got inside the mind of Sydney in all his shrink glory!
Mirage, you are the best.
More please?
Reviewer: Jarod Signed
[Report This]Date: 12/03/25 09:42 pm
I was SO hoping you had updated this. I hope you're ok? You are missed so much.
Reviewer: Jami Signed [Report This]Date: 10/03/25 10:52 pm
Wow. So much wow Mirage. Finally. I didn't think you would ever sequel Forces of Nature and I'm so stoked for this. I don't know how I missed the update. I guess I only saw Rupture and didn't see another title beginning with the letter R.
I can't wait for more. I'm seat dancing over here. Stoked.
Thank you for writing. I've always wondered if you could leave Parker with Jarod like that. I'm so glad that Broots is honoring that promise. I remember it well. He threatened Jarod, warned him that if he hurt Parker again he would come after him.
There would have been evidence of a struggle right? Jarod wouldn't have time to clean a crime scene and the-rape (Dean Winchester quote) (watch supernatural?) Parker's mind like the shrink he is and escape the country with a child. Would there?
I guess there was at least enough evidence to make Broots think Jarod had hurt her because Broots is trying to help her now. Oomph. Oh gods!
This is so amazing, so perfect. The timing is perfect too for obvious Orwellian-dystopian reasons.
I wonder what Michael T. Weiss thinks of everything going on politically over in his country of origin. IMDB says he's in a movie with that orange florida guy and I remember he did a scathing interview talking about Cheney and the environment and it was awesome (dean winchester again, sorry). Michael
l said he was liberal and being liberal is good. And I'm like, yeah, I know baby and I love your liberal ass really liberally.
Is it true that you are uncomfortable when we mention Michael T. Weiss in your reviews?
Like are you afraid that if we talk about him he'll show up or something?
If that's true I'm sorry for mentioning him so much in this one. Dark ME thinks it would be kind of hilarious if he just logged in and told you "BOO!". (would that be scary?) (maybe on Halloween) but no, I love your writing. I need you now. I need you to update everything and write many more stories and then he can jumpscare you! no, i'm kidding. It would just be a Halloween prank maybe. NO, I'm JOKING. I love you. Stay. Don't be afraid.
I love you. Keep writing.
Reviewer: Jana Signed [Report This]Date: 07/03/25 04:18 am
WOOT! You're finally doing it. I'm so shook and thrilled.
I've been wanting to see FON continue since you published the final 3 chapters. This is defo a continue of the Perdition ending. Your original ending.
I would be happy to read a continue or follow up to the other two endings as well if you'd like to write it hint hint no pressure.
Please update all of your stories soon.
Reviewer: Melinda Signed [Report This]Date: 07/03/25 01:05 am
Oh, I just opened Tashi's newsletter and so excited by all of the news of The Pretender and I missed this because I was away for sooo long Mirage. I have all the tingling feelings I would get when I watched our Jarod and MP on TV long ago. You bring it for me, the feellings, you give them back to me and they are alive and in motion when you write them. Thank you forever!
Reviewer: Garbiella Signed [Report This]Date: 06/03/25 11:48 pm
Mirage Mirage Mirage you bring all the ooooomph and action and plot and characters the whole kitten kaboodle of writing.
You're a wordsmith and you know these characters maybe too well. Powerful writing and subtle when it needs to be.
I impatiently wait for more.
Reviewer: Lacy Signed [Report This]Date: 06/03/25 11:37 pm
I'm so freaking addicted to your writing! Please write as fast as you can and feed my addiction. I need it. I'm a junkie for your writing.
Reviewer: Jeremy Signed [Report This]Date: 06/03/25 11:17 pm
Bam!! Hell of an opening chapter! This is genius.
I haven't read Forces Of Nature in full yet but I did skim it and Jami has apprsised me of what happened in that story. I don't need to read FON to understand what is going on here.
Your voice is strong, your writing is amazing, your plotting blows me away.
Mor please and the sooner the better!
Reviewer: Mr PezHead Signed
[Report This]Date: 01/03/25 04:54 am
Holy wows. A sequel at long long long last. So worth the wait.
Queen, yes. I need more.
The bang on characterizations are one of my favorite things in a long list of favorite things about your writing.
It's an art form when you do it. You're a wordsmith and --gah, I can't even.
I'm so fucking stoke for more.
Thank you for continuing, for the sequel, for being you.
You rule!
Reviewer: Sammi Signed [Report This]Date: 27/02/25 03:58 am
So I have a question. How do you do it? You're an author but how? How do you leave the rest of the world behind and get into the zone? I'm struggling so much to be able to sit and focus on the story and not think about my friends and family in the US and what President Space Karen and his pet orange menace might do next.
And vance was a Bowman!!!!!!!!!! from not really the appalachian mountains but ...he changed his name and I'm like OMG it's Bobby Bowman. He's Lyle. If Lyle was ugly and F(*cked couches. He probably murders mail order brides and isn't his wife Asian, too? I wonder if space karen and usha and melania will be deported too. Jus sayin.
See? I can't focus. I have people in the states still. How do you it? Please update this soon. I love your writing style and voice and am literally checking hourly for more.
Reviewer: Xena Signed
[Report This]Date: 17/02/25 09:31 pm
Like....damn I still love this so much. And I sit here in 2025 with a blizzard that just happened in Texas (like happened in your FON that this story sequels) and like Michael t Weiss was totally all about the environment before it was cool to be and talked about planet friendly alternatives and not driving gas guzzlers and did you see the link I sent you that interview where he is clearly anti dick Cheney and OMG
I just love this fic and I just love love love would just love to hear from him about the current US administration cos he was legit in a movie with the te grabber in chief according to IMDb and I would love to hear his thoughts and opinions now .
The pretender was so what incel losers call "woke" now don't ya think?
I guess I want to know if Micheal is still a good person. How do you feel?
I hope you're well and will keep writing.
Reviewer: Leslie Signed [Report This]Date: 10/02/25 05:04 am
Correction..The blizzard that trapped Parker with Jarod in a cabin in the middle of nowhere in
TEXAS!
I first read this thinking "there are no blizzards HERE in Texas!"
And "Jarod would never be dark"
You were right by the way about everything.
Jarod was already dark.
Michael T Weiss said he wanted Jarod darker actually .. it's on those DVDs special features or commentaries.
Can't be darkER if he wasn't already dark to begin with.
Again love this!
Reviewer: Miss Parkere Signed
[Report This]Date: 20/01/25 06:11 pm
Perfect timing Mirage!
A blizzard coming to Texas right freaking NOW! Just like a blizzard a year after you wrote it!
Just like in FON, the blizzard that trapped Parker with Jarod in a cabin in the middle of nowhere!
And a braggy racist rapist who was found guilty in court is being sworn in as potus and sworn about. I know I'm swearing!
Here you are with a sequel although you didn't want to write one!
HELL has frozen over!
It's official.
Hell=red states
Payback's a bitch.
The grabber is going to do everything to ruin the environment like republicans always do so there will be more man made human nature disasters . They get what they vote for
I'm glad you're doing this
I've waited so long!
Thank you
Reviewer: Miss Parkere Signed
[Report This]Date: 20/01/25 06:05 pm
First I have to ask if you believe that Michael T Weiss is anything like we see on tv like did he seem like Jarod the character to you when you met him or any of your encounters with him? I always wonder if he's like the man we see on tv...,????
Next up o my GID I can't believe you are sequeling FON!
So timely when a rapist is being inaugurated today in the US and Snoop has sold out. Taylor Swift is more badass and gangsta than Snoop !
I'm scared of darkerjarod.
Back when you wrote FON I still saw Jarod as good but he's a vigilante and he crossed a line and you were right all along Mirage.
I will read this.
I have to. It's already amazing and exciting. Action packed .
More please!
Reviewer: Cal Signed [Report This]Date: 20/01/25 10:26 am
You always draw Jarod as imperfect and show his humanity and flaws. Life can't always align perfectly and he can't always get away with everything he does and always outsmart all of the surprises life throws.I hope Broots will honor the promise. It's such a twist. You were opposed to a sequel. It probably takes the sting out some for you that Broots will be the brain behind stopping Jarod to make it all worth it? It's so full circle in so many ways.
This is so realistic and plausible. This first chapter plunges me in to the scene. I can see the resort and slopes.
It's so professionally written, edited, and I love the action and the closeness between Jarod and Parker that shows the nature of their relationship. It's like they are in love and have a healthy relationship. But we know that's not true .
Sydney explained it all.
The baby was there as a trap. Sydney probably wanted to know how far gone his Jarod is and Jarod we see is long far gone. The violence of pushing Sydney is Jarod rejecting all of the past and fits in with this and what we know
There's so much to think about. I will write essays and journal this and think more .
There is so much more. I examine each word.
I wait impatiently for more .
Thank you
Congratulations!
I am thankful to and for you
I thank the website and admin Jacci for Jacci this place . I love it here! I should always say that
Grateful for so much nowβΊοΈ
Reviewer: shauna Signed
[Report This]Date: 19/01/25 06:23 pm
It's about time!!
Won't lie. I've wanted this sequel for forever!
So glad that you are finally doing it
I worried you never would. I'm so excited! π βΊοΈ
It gives me hope too that if you can do it
Anyone can do it and I'm talking about Steve and Craig and the original cast! They can do it. There's always a way to make it work.There has to be.
You inspired me.
I can't get enough.
Reviewer: Renea Collins Signed [Report This]Date: 19/01/25 06:12 am
Seriously mate this is top notch, can't stop saying it .
[Report This]Date: 19/01/25 05:29 am
Seriously mate this is top notch, can't stop saying it .
[Report This]Date: 19/01/25 05:29 am
Oh woot woot π₯³ π π₯³ π
Please tell.me Jarod is going down and not getting away with it eventually at least.
I'll be here reading whatever happens.
Your writing is that exquisite π
More more more more
Reviewer: lisa Signed [Report This]Date: 19/01/25 02:38 am
Oh woot woot π₯³ π π₯³ π
Please tell.me Jarod is going down and not getting away with it eventually at least.
I'll be here reading whatever happens.
Your writing is that exquisite π
More more more more
Reviewer: lisa Signed [Report This]Date: 19/01/25 02:38 am
Can I say that I love it when the rumors are true about something fucking AWEmazing?
I know how you totally didn't want to write a sequel or even think about FON.
I know you didn't even plan to write FON.
I know you fully expected Ethan to be in Texas and not Jarod. You said you didn't have a title yet and that Parker was gonna meet Ethan and they were going to end it using the combined skills of all of still living red files
BUT
Jarod opened the door instead and
You said "the thing flew off the rails."
I'm proud of you for not trying to follow the rails and letting the story beat down a new path. You're a total badass boss for that. You posted as you wrote thinking you could "redirect the derailment" but other things happened.
I'm glad you let the story tell itself.
It's the best way .
This is always gonna be relevant and timely and I'm so grateful that you are writing a sequel.
More please?
Reviewer: Revenant Signed
[Report This]Date: 18/01/25 07:56 pm
Oh, man, what an awesome surprise.
Dark Jarod or should I say darkER Jarod is terrifying. FON is plausible and always relevant. It's the always the person we might not expect isn't it? Except when it's the π π€‘ who literally bragged about doing it and was found guilty in court of doing it.
I'm still intrigued that you really thought Ethan would greet Parker in the cabin but the story changed on you. I love FON.
I love this so far.
So excited.
More!
Reviewer: Joni Signed
[Report This]Date: 18/01/25 07:11 am
Snap! π«° The long long long long looooooooong awaited sequel. I'd call it a SQUEEquel cos I love my Jarod dark but you'd probably call it a SCREAMquel.
I can't imagine what will happen.
I would like him to be arrested, jailed, found guilty, imprisoned for twenty years at least.
BUT....
He seems wealthy here, maybe I'm wrong but he is able to travel to high end exclusive no kids allowed places and for the wealthy the laws are different. They basically pay a fine to break any law they want. The less wealthy go to jail forever.
I have read your response to reviews and someone asked how FON would go if you wrote one but I know your thoughts then may differ now.
I know you always have a twist, too, something that should be obvious to me the reader that I should have seen coming.
Suffice to say I'm HELLA DAMN excited.
I crave more.
******Cracks whip******
Give me more now!
Reviewer: The Miss Parker Signed [Report This]Date: 17/01/25 06:36 pm
Uhh huh, yes, yes, yes. Yes please to this and I need more and I need it now.
I've been wanting a FON sequel since you posted FON 17 fracking years ago Mirage!
What's weird is that FON seemed so implausible back then, but since then: Cosby doped tea. Fracking "sweet soft spoken" Gaiman's behavior and actions, written about in an article that just was published this past Monday, is so much like Jarod's behavior in FON that I got chills. I read the article I instantly thought of FON.
Sista, you were ahead of your time with FON. I think you had to wait and let some truths be told and let the world find out what was lurking behind closed doors.
It does feel appropriate that you're doing the sequel now. Because NOW the world finally knows the truth. This is why we choose the bear.
This is why we "wait sooooo long to tell."
This is why we sometimes never tell.
Sometimes we don't say because we're too afraid to say no. You show all of that. It must have been frustrating when readers didn't immediately didn't think of it as rape. People are still like that about wives who are raped by husbands, as if marriage means the husband can violate his wife's body because they'e married.
And for Parker to have fallen in love with Jarod (a rapist) it's so much harder, especially when she has all that guilt from the times she hurt him.
That doesn't justify what he did to her. It makes her feel more obligated. Plus she loves him. It's so complicated. It happens, too. The story of FON happens every day and people don't know it.
Circles of Hell too. It's a true story for someone.
These are important stories. I'm grateful that you wrote them.
I'm grateful for this sequel. Woohoo. More please!
hope you don't mind that i called you sista.
Reviewer: twisted Signed [Report This]Date: 17/01/25 06:45 am
Top notch, mate.
You often incorporate all of my favorite elements into the stories you tell. This explodes into action as I read the first word. The writing is solid. It's all a solid story and it's only just beginning.
Top notch all the way.
Reviewer: King Of Pain Signed [Report This]Date: 16/01/25 10:30 pm
