Hey look at you go. Girl, keep it coming. I love your writing voice and story telling skills and how reading you is like watching The Pretender. More please?

 "awww honey you shouldn't have" LOVE. That's the best line eva.

Awesome job Mirage. Don't stop now. You rock!

Yes, "haven't we all" been having trouble sleeping. So much yes. Your stories are so relatable and relevant. I'm sleeping better since the elections at least, the recall election and Presidential one. Small wins right? You're the highlight of the year, too. I love this story so much, how well it's plotted and all of the surprise twists. You're doing a beautiful job. Thank you for being you. Keep writing please.

Amazingingly written. I've been sitting here reading this thinking that Jarod has moved on and thinks they were wrong together and what do you do? You just had him talk to himself like we all know he does on the dvds like all of the time and I'm so relieved now. Even if they don't get together they still want to. Sometimes we can't be with who we want for reasons that we can't control the way Jarod and Parker are on the dvds and that's fine with me. As long as they love each other and secretly miss each other.  Thank you for all this work and keeping this series alive. It's important. This is one of the better shows out there. It had problems, wasn't consistent, stretched reality, bent logic, and that was before the entrance and exists of long lost unknown family, the way Jarod always just stands there when he finds his mother instead of running to her. He doesn't know what to do when he finds her like Parker doesn't know what to do with Jarod when she finally catches him and then the inner sense happened and then stopped happening and then it got worse in Scotland and I think a genius in that shape could stand a little cold water long enough to catch the boat. Warm up hugs with mom would have been cool. I just read The Pretender Survival Guide by Evlyin so I'm feeling all of that. Somehow you take all of the craziness and solve it. The stuff I hated most is what you repaired or explained..like only an editor and writer could to make it make more sense. I don't know what I did to deserve you but thank you. I know you love this series. I can tell. You're here for a reason and I'm grateful. I love it, too, and I'm so glad it's still alive. Thank you to the stars and back. Stay healthy and safe too.

Yay! There you are.

Jarod:"You're not Nicholas."

Parker: "Astute observation. You must be a genius or something."

Ohhhhh I love Miss Parker more than anything and you write her better than anyone. This back and forth with Jarod and his sweetness has me over here grinning like a dummy. People call you the antiJarod but look at you go. You write it like you it is and sometimes it is ugly. Or what you wrote, "truth's immutable brutality." Keep writing the truth. I love it. Even when it's dark and even if it is brutal.

Pretender Perfect as always Mirage. A definite 10.

Thank you for sharing your talent with us and congratulations on another beautiful chapter.

OMG they are so cute together that it's like the universe wants them to be together forever and why don't you? Outstanding writing Mirage. That ending is full of hope. Make it so!!

I needed like an entire minute to sit and process that one. Very intense and powerful writing Mirage. Your command of the language and these characters is impressive as hell. The intensity between Lyle and Parker stunned me. She is not suicidal. She was testing him I think and showing him she isn't scared. I think she wants him to fight. She's a ballsy woman, has always been. But I'm still on the edge of my seat with my bottom jaw on table here. You remind us all of Jarod's creepiness and even I feel his eyes on them from here but I hope he isn't watching. I want him to move forward with Parker and I don't know how she can do that feeling this freaked out by him. I'm freaked out by him too and now when I watch an episode I always, say, "yep, Mirage was right. He's being stalky and weird." I didn't see it when I was younger. But it was right in my face the entire time. I thought he was good and the others were all bad. Now I think Jarod is kind of bad. Like Dexter and Lucifer in some ways. I need more of this either way. You're like crack cocaine and meth and oxy. But more addictive.

Mirage, Mirage, I can never get enough of your writing. I'm eternally impressed and cannot wait to see where you'll take us next.

Congrats!

More please?!

Oh my GODD! I love this.You totally rule!

More!!

SQUEE! Oh, wows, Mirage you went there and I'm so thrilled. That was a super intense moment between the twins...just omg! Lyle saw it in her face that Parker could empathetize with him and I love that he offered to free her. Maybe he thinks now he can try to be strong and get through because his sister is doing the same?? I love it. Your writng is hella professional and the characters are always in character. It's all so intriguing. I love the mystery of the painter always painting a blank white canvas on a blank white canvas, and yay Lyle respected those pronouns. You are a rock star! More please?

More of this please. I love how you write them.

From the top.... Jarod's happiness to be outside of the hospital is way to reminiscent of everyone in the world wanting to be outside again and dining out during the pandemic...and it's still not over but we know to wear masks and be vaccinated and safely distance and still be out now. But I swear.. ughh Mirage I felt that. I felt that so hard. Parker's inability to leave Sydney is appropriate. She feels responsible...mostly becausee Jarod made her feel responsible and that means she values his opinion more than Jarod could have known. It feels ...not over between them. I think it's understandable that Jarod would be surprisee to learn that he had been sharing Sydney, Nicholas, and the family with Parker... ahhh I love how write and story tell. I love the word placement, the word choice, the complexities involved. I never liked Lyle, always thought he was completely evil and impossible to redeem. Now I'm asking myself why. Chapters back you reminded us that Jarod led Ethan and Kyle to redemption and that Parker was in a position to pretend to kill Jacob convincingly. Lyle had to make tougher choices. Lyle was taken at brith, never knew love, never was nurtured and never had a Sydney to pick up the slack and nurture. Ethan seemed to have a good foster family, so good that they were killed. Kyle had his parents for a while too just like Jarod. But Lyle had none of that. This is more than a sympathy for the devil plot you've written. Lyle isn't the devil. Raines is if anyone is. Lyle isn't evil. Lyle wasn't cared for and that can have bad results and it's not his fault. He wasn't raised to know what was right or wrong. He was influenced and raised by Raines and crappy insane and abusive foster parents who tortured him and taught that if wanted acceptance he had to kill and do what Raines said. This is why I can't call your work fanfic. It's so much more. You're writing fiction and I don't know want led you here  but I'm grateful that you're here. You really made me think and rethink my feelings toward Lyle. I was prejudiced and quick to label him bad. It's not his fault if he is bad. What can be done for that though? Will he be rehabiliated somehow? Was Sydney helping him? Because Lyle seems to realize his mistakes and doesn't want Jarod's pity. It's like he knew he was bad and thinks he needs to die now because of it. Will Lyle be mad that Parker distracted him so Jarod could inject him? I love the exploration and I want you to keep it up and explore even more. I wish your works would be in television format. You should be writing the official novels definitely. I wonder if Jarod and Parker will patch things up now. I'm so full of anticipation to know what will happen next. I'll patiently wait. Thank you a million for writing and sharing.