How To Start Your Own ARG

PATRICK BERNAUW is a full time Flemish writer of historical mysteries, faction and fiction, supernatural stories and fantasy novels. His work was translated in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Polish,... He is also a playwright, performer and producer of music theatre, murder mystery and city games. "I like online writing, because there are so many new tools and opportunities to it," he says. "As an online writer, you are something like a "multimedia director" too, working with text, pictures, audio, video, links, news feeds and so on... In fact, you are a 'composer of content'. Writing has become... well... exciting again!"

I SAW BRITNEY SHAKESPEARS IN HER BATHROOM MIRROR!

Hey you, I'm talking to you. Yeah, you!
Have you seen yourself in the mirror lately?
I have. I have seen you, but you have not seen me.
Nope. You have not seen me.

I have seen this guy not too big
and I have seen this gall not too small
and I have seen this chick not too thick
and you have not seen me!

I have seen you all through
the Fabulous Shew-Stone of Doctor Dee
but I prefer blondes, I do admit:
the Marilyn Monroe Kind of Bitch
that writes about how to to use a vibrator
and that sort of shit.

I have seen you with your long blonde hair
and your eyes like icicles, like
the cool lakes of death, I have seen you
without your itsy bitsy titsy teenie weenie
yellow polka dot bikini,
I have seen the Nordic Queen
and she has not seen me!

It's pretty funny watching you through
the Shew-Stone, but it's Big Fun
watching this Iron Maiden of mine.

You can call it "voyeurism", I guess.
You can call me a dirty old man
but to see you naked, from head to toes
and shivering in the dark...
Ah, that makes my day!

I see you right now in your bathroom mirror,
you're so charming - a Hilton in Paris
and I can hear you thinking
this Marlowe guy is talking about me
and there you go, shivering & shaking!

Come on, baby! Shiver & shake it
as if you were in a Thriller Clip
of the Late
Wacko Jacko Show!

Ah my Pretty Dumb Blonde,
does that sound really crazy
& maybe
a little bit like if I am
a weirdo too?

But I do see you.
I can see you all, although I prefer
Dumb Blondes like, let's say
Britney Shakespears
or something like that.

So, watch out for the Bogeyman!

Yours Truly,
Chris Marlowe II