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 …
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I Get High with a Little Help from my Friends
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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Four Spirits Dancing So Strange
“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 …
They’re Gonna Put Me in the Movies!
“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 …
A Beatle in Times Square
“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 …
Tomorrow Never Knows
“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 …
Your Song will Fill the Air
“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 …
Something Inside That Was Always Denied
This piece of speculative fiction addresses the question, “What if John Lennon hadn’t gone to Spain with Brian Epstein in 1963, and stayed home with his wife and newborn son instead?” In this story, set in the spring of 1967, the Fab Four are still in Liverpool, working at remarkably un-fabulous jobs. But Paul arranges …
Little Quarrymen
“Now, what do you think the author is trying to say in this passage from the text?” George Martin asked the four teenagers gathered in a circle around him. “That if the Pilgrim progresses any further, he’s going to get horrible bunions on his feet,” proposed the bespectacled student sitting to his right. The boy …
Creme Tangerine 