“Christ!” shouted Neil Aspinall. He slammed his foot on the brake and brought the rickety van to an abrupt stop. “Fuck, why’d you do that!” shouted John from the back seat. “You made me knock heads with Ritchie!” Paul looked over his shoulder and put his finger to mouth to silence his song-writing partner. “Give …
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Most folks on this Earth Like the Beatles a lot. But the Grinch, who hailed from The Fabs’ homeland, did not. Well, that’s not quite true. No, please don’t get me wrong. He hated the Fab Four, But still liked their songs. “If only they weren’t such Unpleasant old geezers! I …
John pulled his wallet out of his trouser pocket and carefully counted out the pound notes. He briefly cursed his manager Brian Epstein for giving him such small wage packets. After the tremendous year he’d just had, he should be carrying thousands of pounds in his billfold! But then he remembered how money always seemed …
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“Dammit, man, how loud do I have to shake these effin’ chains?! Wake the bloody hell up!” Ebenezer Scrooge pulled his covers up over his head and rolled away from the disturbance on the left side of his bed. “Wake the fuck up!” shouted the stranger. He grabbed Scrooge’s blanket and pulled it off the …
“Am I late?” Paul asked. He closed the door behind him and stepped inside Brian’s library. “Yes, but I knew you would be, so I gave you the wrong time,” Brian replied with an irritated look. “We’ve only been waiting for you for about five minutes,” Ringo added, glancing at his watch. John winked at …
“I’ve got your magazines!” the newsstand proprietary exclaimed enthusiastically. “My distributor in Connecticut found a few extra copies of last week’s New Musical Express, so I put one in your bundle, along with the latest edition. And I’ve got your Sunday Times, Daily Mail and Melody Maker tucked in here too.” He handed John the …
“This is the one,” George said, pointing to the brightly painted cottage. “I recognize that window above the door.” Ringo inspected the semi-circular, stained glass image of a woman’s forehead with a large third eye peering out between her brows. “Yup. This sure looks like a fortune teller’s cottage to me.” Paul chuckled. “It almost …
“I’m so tired. I haven’t slept a wink!” complained Warrant Officer John Ripley. “You’ve slept plenty in stasis,” retorted Captain Tamara Dallas. “And now it’s time to start a new mission.” “I thought we were supposed to stay in stasis until we were within spitting distance of Earth,” protested Joan Kane, Executive Officer of the …
Ringo lifted his right hand to rap on the door, then hesitated. He held it in front of his face for a few seconds and examined it in the warm golden light of the sunset. His favorite sapphire ring was so tight on his pinkie finger that it practically cut off his circulation. But he …
Dramatis Personae: JOHN, PAUL, GEORGE, RINGO, MACBETH, THREE APPARITIONS, TIM Setting: A small cave in a remote Scottish mountainside. Sometime in the early Middle Ages. Shortly before tea time. Enter Ringo and Paul. RINGO: Are you sure this is the right place? It doesn’t look like The Cavern to me. PAUL: (Folding up his map …
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