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 🍊 🤡 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!

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.

You have made my entire year fabulous by doing this. OMG.

"mankebab." OMG. I would pay Michael T. Weiss good money to quickly do that scene while crying out "don't compose a man kebab baby." I want the ring tone. I'd set my alarm and have that ring tone wake me up each morning. Every time I get angry I'd play that so he could talk me dowm from punching someone.

You know how well he delivers a line. You know he could do it. 

Like, oh god, that is my new favorite line. I know he was only thinking the mankebab line but I'd love to hear that. I want to know how he would say that for Jarod.

Don't worry. Don't worry don't worry, I won't ask him, I won't say a word. I won't mention fanfic or you or this story or mankebabs or skewers.

You're worried, aren't you?

It's ok. I promise I won't say a word. Please continue this. I've been dying to know Parker will recover herself and her life and if Jarod will ever pay for what he's done. You write it so well, realistic. I can never get enough.

woot. So good of you to finally give us the sequel. 

This is a hell of a first chapter, action packed. Can't get enough.

Please continue.

I don't know what to review. I don't know if I will like this right now at this time in my life. I'm sorry. I'm so so sorry. Please don't be mad at me. Please never be upset about opinions.

Your writing is eloquent and it's always in character and well written and the stories you tell need to be told INCLUDING THIS ONE and there's always a reason that things have to be said.

A. BUT DarkJarod is totally terrifying. You were right all those times you said that Jarod was already dark in the tv series.  EVEN Darker, dark like he was in Perdition and the earlier chapters of FON is too horrifying. He scares the shit out of me Mirage.

I don't usually have a problem reading even graphic rape.

I think it's because you had his speech pattern, dialog, mannerisms, facial expressions, body language and everything about him too on the nose. You do that with all of the characters and it is terrifying. It's like being there in the scene. I could see him do all of the horrible things he did. I could hear him say it all. I could see his face. The story needs to be told. It always has. You tell it so exceptionally well. I'm too scared to read the rest of this right now.

B. With the rapistTrumpAntichrist soon being inagurated into the presidency in the US with his eyes set on my country Canada and all of the evil celebrity men... looking at Neil Gaiman now... making news for all of the wrong reasons I don't know if I can handle this right now.

I expect you to continue anyway please. Please keep writing this. Don't let my review slow you down. I know you won't.

You have to write what wants to be written. I understand that.

Others here will need you to write what I know they must be sometimes feeling about the antichrist rapisttrump. They will relate and take comfort in not feeling alone and that is what art is suppose to exist for, to comfort, empathize, to say "I feel the same." I read so much of you and I know that you understand how I have felt. This story hits too close to home sometimes if you know what I'm saying. You make me know that I'm not alone.

I may not be able to always read this one and might not be in the mindset to review.

I beg you to please continue your other stories too. Blindsided and Lucanae first please, and then more of Peripeteia and The Return. A Heroe's Heart is still incomplete too. Oh, more. Please more of those. You are brilliant. Horrifyingly brilliant. It's a compliment that you scare me. Not many people can write in a way that is so real that is scares me.

My mind is officially blown! 2025 is wild already. It's gonna be even more lit now. Mirage is back with the darkness. DarkJarod is baaaaaaaack!

I never believed you would do it. I know you seemed really very incredibly strongly opposed to touching Forces of Nature again. Jarod is scary already. He's dark already. Then leveled up when you wrote Forces of Nature. Perdition is a terrifying chapter. All of the dead bolts went clicking into place and the entire story took on an entirely different meaning.

You really burst out of the gate with the first paragraph. You've got that thing. The thing my favorite authors have. I do love action.

I love Austria, too. I love skiing there. I love that gondola ride up. Did Parker by any chance ski the harakari? The suicide slope? I love that one too so I hope she did. I'm glad she isn't some barefoot and pregnant trad wife, growing her own meat and slaughtering itself or whatever.

Those ski poles. Just wowsa. I can see her doing that, designing her own, making them as dangerous as possible, trying to mankebab someone.

Sydney is such a god damn shrink in this. It's so plausible. By the Parker was carving ice I know this one will have some twists and sharp turns. I can't wait.

I'm so stoked for this!

Woow. Forces of Nature continues. Human nature truly is hideous and nothing is more hideous.

I was on the edge of my seat with this and it's only the first chapter so that should tell you everything. You are a masterful author and story teller.

I can't wait to read more.

Thank you for continuing with this.

Oh yes bring it. You always deliver.

I know you will bring it home.

I always knew Forces of nature was a thriller and horror epic. Human nature being the worst part of any nature.

With Jarod the intelligence makes it moreso plausibly.

I always thought it would be horrific moreso if he went darkerest.

He would be unstoppable.

I have a curiosity. I wait impatient and anticipate.

This is already thrilling me Mirage.

The gratitude i have is unspeakable.

Thank you always.

OMG I love it! Finally a sequel..17 god damn years!

Oh I was on xxnx for reasons, and that Iowa movie was on there and it's the scene where Michael T Weiss's es character is rough sexing rosanne Marquette OMG..omg.. there is one comment on that movie and it's from someone named Michael in the US and their comment is "would you like me to do that to you?" and I'm just dead now lol..

You don't think...????

Like ? Do you think?

Anyway. I'm so freaked!!

Please continue this.

As dark as you want to go

I'm so here for it!!

Hells to all the yeahs.

A sequel to Forces of Nature has been on my Xmas list for so many years

This is perfect

Thank you love!!

I'm certainly stunned right now young lady.

You launch us into their lives by making it clear that Jarod successfully fled the states with Miss Parker and she appears to willing and that drives home the point that his "therapies" have been successful too.

Zachary?

Another dead child? Is he dead?

Oh, I had concerns.

Zachary would be an adult now if I assume correctly that it's been 17 years?

I'm still so invested in this saga.

I want more and more.

Thank you and big congrats !🎉