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The Beatles Fan Fiction Directory Newsletter

November 2005Now with 247 Stories!
Directory News
Welcome to the November Newsletter!

I've had so many stories added this month, this newsletter will have to be sent in two parts, to fit them all in!

There have been some Directory updates too...

* New Genre pages completed!
* Some personal messages from Paul and Yoko about John's 65th Birthday, printed in Q magazine, and added to the Newspaper and Magazine archive.
New section opened... 'In Your Own Write' - about the art and craft of fan fiction and writing. More things will be added to this section soon, including the Rooftop Sessions' Write Thinking Archives.
* And, duh duh duh duh duuuuuh!... Anouncing...

The BFFD Livejournal Community!

This community is to replace the problematic forum and is already off to a good start. Come and join us and post your thoughts about the directory, fan fiction, stories, the Beatles and pretty much whatever you like! The community is also open to non-livejournal members and you can post without becoming a member of the community - but it would be nice if you did join!

Many thanks to Faolan for all her help setting up, starting and running the BFFD Community!

Awards Update
The closing date for voting in the First Ever BFFD Awards will be the 14th November! Make sure you vote for who you want to win before then! The winners, including the nomination draw winner, will be announced in Decembers Newsletter!

New Stories and Updates
New stories added this month. A fair few, and as usual the links can be found on the 'New Stories' Page at the Directory.

Sonnett 64: He Wanted To Tell Us by Lisa N. Collins
From Rooftop Sessions. A poem dedicated in memory of George.
Genre: Poetry
Starring: George
This poem is complete.

Lend Me Your Ears by Lisa N. Collins
From Rooftop Sessions.A painfully shy college student is forced to reveal herself when taking a course about the Beatles.
Genre: Actuality
Starring: All Four Beatles
This story is complete.

Angelic Sins by Ashley and Lucy
Catapulted into an alien time, our four young lads must survive on their musical talent alone, split up, and with nowhere to go. Their only saving grace comes in the form of two young angels, clearly new at their jobs. What begins as a free-wheeling thrill ride quickly takes a turn for the worse as the guardian angels become far too involved with the affairs of their wards. With the intervention of the supreme beings, everything is cast into a whirlwind of uncertainty...all they can hope for is that their friendship...and their love...will survive.
Genre:Romance
Starring: All Four Beatles
This story is complete.

Diabolical Cucumbers by Ashley
Everyone knows that the world is being taken over by boybands and pop princesses. Well, this needs to stop. And just for a while, it will stop, when our favorite superheroes, The Fab Four, come to the future to try and stop Boybands from taking over the world! What a strange reality it is...but you can experience the ride by reading this story!
Genre:Comedy
Starring: All Four Beatles
This story is complete.

Hour Of Darkness by Lucy
What do you think would happen if our four boys were catapaulted to a parallel world, left to survive and thrive with only their wits, cunning, and a certain hand-picked ability?
Genre:Sci-Fi
Starring: All Four Beatles
This story is complete.

Hour Of Darkness II: Devil In Her Heart by Lucy
he boys (not to mention their guide...and a certain someone else) must return to the magical Valeth to rid the parallel universe of the Dark Apprentice's corrupt presence and save Ringo's soul. Can they work fast enough before she tears the peaceful world in two?
Genre:Sci-Fi
Starring: All Four Beatles
This story is in progress.

Tessa by Lucy
This story is a short romance between Ringo and Tessa. I wrote this mainly because I find that in the romance department of fan fictions, Ringo is sadly neglected. He's the cute little innocent one, used mainly for comedies. I just wanted to write a romance with Ringo as the main character for all the Ringo fans that feel the same way I do! Please enjoy the story!
Genre:Romance
Starring: Ringo
This story is complete.

Flowers And Grapes by Lucy
"We brought you the flowers!!"
"Oh good!"
"And the GRAPES!"
"Ooh, I like grapes!!"
Genre:Comedy
Starring: Ringo
This story is complete.

They Won't See Me by Lucy
5,995,544,836 people on Earth... one who can talk to you.
Genre:Supernatural
Starring:John
This story is complete.

Survivor by Lucy
First part of the Gameshow Series. This means war...!
Genre:Comedy
Starring:All Four Beatles
This story is complete.

The Dating Game by Lucy
Second part of The Gameshow Series. Who will win the young ladies heart?
Genre:Comedy
Starring:All Four Beatles

Cry For A Shadow Of Yesterday by Cassandra K. Blake
Olivia Kelly was a nineteen year old, with so much to look forward to in life, until the discovery that her days were numbered... Her band mates suffered when they lost her, but another band was destined to meet her... It had been a long night, filled with searing pain, but when it all ended there was no bright light, just flowery curtains, and waking up in an unfamiliar room...
She was a girl from the nineties, a talented musician, but she was destined for greater times... She found herself trapped in time with the Beatles. When she lost her heart she knew she had been destined to live in that time. She was no longer lost. She was finally home on cloud nine. Her life was in the sixties and with him...
Genre:Romance
Starring:John(?)
This story is in progress.

Imagine by Cassandra K. Blake
Another day in a boring dead end life didn't matter to Charlene. An easy life was far from describing her, and her past was something that still tore at her. With the help of familiar strangers, and new friendships, she is given a new life. She learns that running isn't always the answer. A chilling past is lost as a bright future begins...
Genre:Romance
Starring:John
This story is complete.

Shadows On The Wall by Cassandra K. Blake
When Blake lost him, she lost herself. Would she ever find herself again, or would she be trapped with the other..?
Genre:Romance
Starring:John
This story is in progress.

Trapped In This Lonely Room by Cassandra K. Blake
Lana Brooke was never good with men. They were mean, or neglected her. She thought when she fell for Richard, things had changed, but then he began to ignore her, and she longed for attention. When she fell again, he left her hanging. She was lost, so would she find her way, or be trapped in her lonely room of memories...
Genre:Romance
Starring:?
This story is in progress.

Only Darkness Followed by Cassandra K. Blake
Wrynne Pearson was a girl with an awful past, but that never stopped John for watching her. Then on the day John's mother died they met for the first time. John had already fallen for her, that first day nearly a year ago when he saw her out in her garden hanging laundry.
He saved her from her aunt and gave her a chance at a new life. He also helped her to find a father she'd given up hope on. Now she had a new family and John. Happiness was dawning, but darkness always comes back to haunt. After everything they'd been through John made stupid mistakes and so did Wrynne. Would pain and infidelity tear them apart, or would they try and run for the darkness that was following them...
Genre:Romance
Starring:John
This story is in progress.

I'm Only Sleeping by Cassandra K. Blake
We begin this tale of horror three days before the Beatles would be on the Ed Sullivan Show. To them the Ed Sullivan show was the beginning of a new life, money, and everything. So how were these three days so horrible if this would be the Beatles big break? How can you ask such a question! Donâ??t you know that something awful always happens three days before anyoneâ??s big break? Why itâ??s known as the ground breaking three day curse! Oh the horror of this curse.
Genre:Horror
Starring:All Four Beatles
This story is complete.

Back To Your Side by Katerine Travers
It is 1961, and Audrina Morrison and George Harrison are two teenagers in love, in spite of disapproving parents. When a foolish mistake and a terrible accident tear them apart, will they ever see each other again? And if they finally reunite, has time changed them too much? Will they ever be able to rebuild their romance?
Genre:Romance
Starring:George
This story is in porgress.

Sweet India's Song by GoodDaySunshyne
This story is about a rather emotional and spiritual - not to mention physical - relationship involving George during his trip to India after the stay with the Maharishi in early 1968.
Genre:Romance
Starring:George
This story is complete.

This Boy by Valerie Walker
"She was born to a couple named Elsie and Richard Starkey.  There was mention of another birth, a boy, born about 15 minutes apart.  They were twins!  Hattie could not determine if the other child was stillborn or survived.  These twins were born during the bombing of Liverpool!  Did the parents survive?  How did Rachel get to the United States?"
Genre: Melodrama
Starring: Ringo
This story is in progress.

All My Life by Rea
Leigh Whitmore is engaged to marry her British beau, Roy Shaw, who convinces her to move to his hometown of London, England. One night while Leigh is out at a coffe house with a friend she is 'forced' to sing with the house band for a number. Little does she know, but a man who works at Abbey Road Studios is in the audience and offers her a recording contract. Things take off from here, and Leigh meets a rather 'intersting' man and his friends who will remain with her all her life.
Genre: Romance
Starring: Paul
This story is in progress.

All My Loving by Lupita
Genre: Romance
Starring: Paul
This story is in progress.

...And I Will Still Be Laughing by Julia Dylan
It's Liverpool (where else?), 1960, in a pub called Rose And Crown, and you will spot a rather serious conversation. I don't take any responsability from then on!
Genre: Romance
Starring: Ringo
This story is in progress.

Another Call For Help by Bitsy
Fade in to a small eastern village settled on a plain. It is the middle of the night. The houses are stone and near the back is a small tower. Cut to inside the tower. We see the back of a woman who is looking over the jungle near the village. In the distance, there is a dark temple. Lea, a young woman in her early twenties enters, carrying a lantern. She has long, dark hair and wears a silk dress. - A sequal to Help!
Genre: Comedy
Starring: All Four Beatles
This story is in progress.

Love Comes To Everyone by Lovely Sadie
The story takes place in early 1963, around the end of January. The introduction just jumps right into the story!
Genre: Romance
Starring: George
This story is in progress.

Apple Scruff by Sian
A girl runs away to seek her fortune in London.
Genre: ?
Starring: ?
This story is in progress.

I Want To Tell You To Think For Yourself by Lisa N. Collins
From Rooftop Sessions. A longtime Beatles fan receives a special visit and learns a spiritual lesson.
Genre: Actuality
Starring: George
This story is complete.

The Answers At The End by Lisa N. Collins
From Rooftop Sessions. A young woman, born in the Golden City during the height of Flower Power, discovers more than 35 years later that she met her favorite Beatle when he made a short visit to San Francisco the Summer of 1967.
Genre: Romance
Starring: George
This story is complete.

The Ballad Of Jemmy And Strawberry by Lissa Michelle Supler
Paul McCartney is in America promoting a new album and the reception he gets is so overwhelming that he is confined to his hotel room the day after arriving. He manages to have one day to himself...and that is all that is needed for him to run into one strange girl...
Genre: Romance
Starring: Paul
This story is complete.

A Band To Sgt Pepper by Anna Carolina Fagundes
..they lived a love story to die for... ...the destiny torn their plans... ...thirty years after, what had to be done... ...will be done.
Genre: Romance
Starring: ?
This story is complete.

Beatle Fic 1 by Agent Honeywell
Genre: Comedy
Starring: All Four Beatles
This story is complete.

Beatles For Sale by Jane Williams
A Beatley night of fun turns bad when Brian withdraws his management of the Beatles and turns them over to...Colonel Tom Parker?!?
Genre: Comedy
Starring: All Four Beatles
This story is complete.

The Blasphemous Beatle Affair by Jane Williams
John's "bigger than Jesus" remarks get him into more trouble than he bargained for. But with the help of the American Crusaders, he just may get out of it....
Genre: ?
Starring: John
This story is complete.

Blue Eyes by Anna Carolina Fagundes
A Psychedelic Nightmare. Somewhere in your mind, there's a thing that can make you go into guilty trips. That you might call nightmares. But what when you just don't know where you are stepping in?
Genre: Actuality
Starring: ?
This story is complete.

Canine Curse by Julia Cryne
In 1965, the Beatles were on a routine tour-then a gypsy turns then into . . . dogs! Will our heroes ever become human?
Genre: Sci-Fi
Starring: All Four Beatles
This story is complete.

Cloning Around by Brittney and Tara
Ringo, Ringo, everywhere!
Genre: Sci-Fi and Comedy
Starring: Ringo
This story is complete.

The Continuing Story Of Brittney and Tara by Brittney and Tara
Hello All! This has been great to think and create! Now, it is my pleasure to give to you the adventures Brittney and I encounter in our lovely little series. The first *episode* being a sort of introduction! NOTE: To read parts of this you will need to highlight or 'select all' the text. It is there, honest!
Genre: Comedy
Starring: All Four Beatles
This story is complete.

December 8, 2000 by Goldie Randolph
Things just couldn't get any worse for Goldie. School suspension, haunting dreams and grief...all wrapped up in one fateful day: December 8, 2000.
Genre: Angst
Starring: John
This story is in progress.

Deja Vu Affair by Walrus
The Beatles are getting ready for a concert when John and Paul start having strange dreams. As they both suspect, Mary has something to do with it.
Genre: Melodrama
Starring: John and Paul
This story is in progress.

Don't Be Careless Love by Jennifer Abraham
Song-fic around 'Don't Be Careless Love' from 'Flowers In The Dirt' by Paul.
Genre: Romance
Starring: Paul
This story is complete.

Money (That's What I Want) by Jennifer Abraham
First fic by the author
Genre: ?
Starring: Paul
This story is complete.

Mommy's Gift by Jennifer Abraham
Stella McCartney was devastated when her mother died, and she hated the way everyone only seemed to care about what they "got". Then she discovered the secret heart and spirit of her special inheritance.
Genre: Melodrama
Starring: Paul
This story is complete.

Christmastime Is Here Again by Jennifer Abraham
It was 1970, and nerves were worn down completely. The Beatles were at each otherâ??s throats whenever they got a chance, and this was shortly before the breakup. Well, Christmastime WAS here again, and they had to make theyâ??re annual Christmas record for the Beatles fan club. Here is what was on itâ?¦
Genre:Comedy
Starring: All Four Beatles
Warnings: PG-13 for language and adult situations
This story is complete.

September In The Rain by Jennifer Abraham
This is basically a what-would-have-happened-if-Ringo-built-a-time-machine concept. Paul and his little brother Michael are accidentally sent back in time to when they were...TEENAGERS! Can...or will...Ringo ever get them back?
Genre:Sci-Fi
Starring: Paul
This story is complete.

Bad Boy by Jennifer Abraham
It's a bit of a dark romance story, so if that interests you, this is the story for you!
Genre:Romance
Starring: Ringo
Crossover: Beatles/The Who
Warnings: Pg-13 for harsh language, violence and adult situations
This story is in progress.

Randy Scouse Git by Jennifer Abraham (Gidget) and Dyani
A *slightly* different version of the meeting of Micky and Paul...
Genre:Slash - Paul/Mickey from The Monkees
Starring: Paul
Warnings: R for adult situations
This story is complete.

Peter And The Wolf by Jennifer Abraham (Gidget)
A re-written fairy tale starring The Who. Features cameo appearances by Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Elton John, and Johnny Rotten!
Genre:Adventure
Starring: Paul and Ringo
Crossover: The Who/Paul and Ringo
Warnings: PG for language
This story is complete.

Walking In The Park by Coop
From Rooftop Sessions. Paul meets a young mother and her toddler son in the park one day and begins to realize what is really important in life
Genre:Romance
Starring: Paul
This story is complete.

Looks Like We Made It by Coop
From Rooftop Sessions. When Shea finally returns to London after spending a year away, she doesn't know how she's going to handle seeing Paul again... until she realizes that the pull of the heart is a very potent thing.
Genre:Romance
Starring: Paul
This story is complete.

Big Sky by Coop
From Rooftop Sessions. Amanda has an unscheduled visitor to her ranch in Montana, and the attraction is undeniable...
Genre:Romance
Starring: Paul
This story is complete.

Ivonne by Coop
From Rooftop Sessions. He was only with her for six short weeks...but Paul was consumed by her...
Genre:Romance
Starring: Paul
This story is complete

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