"Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull."
---Rod Serling
They're here...at last! The stories of the Field! Here they are, all stories existing within this place known as Strawberry's Field(in order of publication):
Fan Fiction
written by Lissa Michelle Supler
(aka Strawberry Sunshine)
Winner of The Beatles' Golden Apple Award!
Winner of Best John, Best Plotline and Best Supporting Characters (Alexander & Adriana) in the 2000 Summer BFF Awards!
This story is so weird and hard to explain that I'm afraid (not really!) you'll have to find out what it's about for yourself.
written by Jeanna
Winner of Ringa's Magical Mystery Award!
A young girl is bored and restless with her small town life. But all this is about to change with a "certain run-in with a certain Liverpudlian"!
Complete!
The Sequel
written by Jeanna
Read the summary above and then read on!
Deja Vu Affair
written by The 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.
written by Yvonne
A girl from Liverpool gets the chance to play a role in A Hard Day's Night and gets to know the Beatles, especially John.
This brings her back to certain memories of her youth...
written by Jeanna
This is the story of a small town girl who seems to have lost everything
close to her, in a time when she needs it most, a mysterious stranger causes
her to realize what living is all about.
I Need You
written by Jane Williams
(aka Lady Jane)
Winner of Best Short Story in the 2000 Summer BFF Awards!
This story is about how Paul might have reacted to his 1968
breakup with Jane Asher, and how John has to console him.
Complete!
The Blasphemous Beatle Affair
written by Jane Williams
(aka Lady Jane)
Winner of Most Original John Character in the 2000 Summer BFF Awards!
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....
Complete!
A Time Before
written by The Walrus
This story is basically science fiction, which kind of sets up a new situation in
which civilization doesn't advance, but decays over time...therefore, the
cavemen had really advanced technology and lived at peace with one another.
Read on...
by Jane Anderson
Winner of the Field's *Five Star* Award!
Voted Best Overall Author in the 2000 Summer BFF Awards!
Julia Anderson is just out of college and the only things she's certain about is her life-long desire to go to London to see her best friend Pam and her love for the Beatles. Little does she know that she's about to meet more friends than just Pam...
Complete!
by Jane Anderson
Winner of the Field's *Five Star* Award!
Julia returns home to carry on with her life and forget the past. But how long can she stay in New York without being haunted by her maybe not-so-bad memories...
Got to Get You Into My Life
by Serena Robbins
These are the adventures of four girls who had their dreams come true. They had to go their way and change events make them happen...
written by Sandi
Winner of Best John Romance in the 2000 Summer BFF Awards!
A young girl discovers love with a certain Liverpudlian, but that's not all she discovers...
Complete!
The Beatles Story
written by The Walrus
This is the whole Beatles story---their early days to their rise to fame to their break-up---in poetry form, published in chapters.
I Feel Fine
written by Ms. Moonlight
It's a late night at the Abbey Road Studios, at
the height of Beatlemania. Things are not going smoothly for the Beatles.
Ringo's fingers are sore, John's hated glasses are smudged. In fact,
someone is fast approaching the boiling point. What will happen next?!
Read on...
written by Lissa Michelle Supler
(aka Strawberry Sunshine)
The triumphant return of the story written in Linda's memory, hosted on The Houseful before its shut-down, in its original form. This is the story of young Shelle Stanley, whose dreams enabled her to live in the past and see the future...and whose love pierced through Time and united her with one man...
Complete!
Had It Been Another Day
written by Cinder Whittier
Lena McGaughey is your average young woman,
or so she thought. She goes through a veritable
rabbit hole and finds herself in London, 1966. Lost
and confused, Lena wanders the street until she meets
her hero. As much as she loves being in London in
that era; she can't help but wonder if she can ever
get home before she reconfigures the future and
threatens the history that she holds so dear.
Open Up Your Eyes
written by Blackbird
It's the summer of 1968 and Maria Burroughs, a sophomore in college, decides
to abandon her monotonous life for a few months and takes a trip to London.
She goes there hoping just to have fun over her summer vacation before going
home to start her junior year in college. Her life changes forever, though,
with a moment of eye contact in a club and a chance encounter with a certain
"stranger" on the streets of London.
Here on Earth
written by Lissa Michelle Supler
(aka Strawberry Sunshine)
In this story set a few weeks after John Lennon's passing, his and Paul McCartney's close friend Sandi Parker deals with John's death and in what seems to be a dream, meets John again. He lays a charge on her to carry a message to a very dear friend of his and she begins to understand that this isn't all just a dream...
Dear Friend, the Love of My Life
written by Lissa Michelle Supler
(aka Strawberry Sunshine)
Winner of Lovely Sadie's Awesome Fic Award!
Winner of Best Unfinished in the 2000 Summer BFF Awards!
Rewritten version!
Set a few years in our future, Lynne Lewis is a young American writer-actress-model bound for England's Oxford college. While there, she meets Paul McCartney and an instant friendship is struck between them. But that friendship was from the start a little different...and it gives both Lynne and Paul what they were looking for but weren't expecting to find....
The Ballad of Jemmy and Strawberry
written by Lissa Michelle Supler
(aka Strawberry Sunshine)
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...
Strawberry's Song
written by Lissa Michelle Supler
(aka Strawberry Sunshine)
Sequel to The Ballad of Jemmy and Strawberry
Paul contacts Lissa after landing in England and invites her to visit him and proposes that he should manage her acting career. But Lissa isn't too sure...
Complete!
Canine Curse
written by Julia
In 1965, the Beatles were on a
routine tour-then a gypsy turns then into . . . dogs!
Will our heroes ever become human?
Complete!
Sweet Home Chicago
written by Julia
A certain blues fan from Chicago meets up with the Beatles, only to become fast friends-especially with Paul. This is a cross over with "The Blues Brothers movie" (from SNL), but you don't have to have seen the movie for it to be understandable.
A Twist in Time
written by Nicola Beckett
The thing is, this isn't just any ordinary business.
It's the business of telling people their fortunes. Melinda is a psychic, her mother was a psychic, as was her mother...and so on. The only reason Melinda chose to adopt Emily was that one day as she was passing the orphanage she spotted her and immediately recognised that Emily too had the potential for spiritual powers. Melinda realised that this fact could well be useful to her in her new venture.
In actual fact, it ended up being her downfall.
Logic
written by The Walrus
The lads find themselves in a strange room in very strange clothes! Will John be able to get them out of this strange place?
Complete!
Neil in California
written by Julia
The Beatles'
final tour leads Neil Aspinall to the sunny beaches of
California, where a certain someone is waiting to
change his life forever.
Complete!
What She Was Told
written by The Walrus
In the winter of 1967, Trixi was looking forward to the end of her last year of college. Her dreams, as she reported, were persistently about meeting John (her favorite) in a small sidewalk cafe in New York City. And no one ever, ever, insulted the Beatles in front of her! Call her obsessed. This is her story.
Presumed Guilty
written by Julia
When Paul is accused of
murder, and no hope is left, will the real killer be
identified before it's too late?
Complete!
written 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?!?
Complete!
For the Sake of the Child
written by Julia Cryne
Will one man's evil plot to kill the Beatles
succeed in also breaking up a love that's meant to be?
Complete!
written 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.
An Unfinished Letter
by Lissa Michelle Supler
(aka Strawberry Sunshine)
This is a letter I wrote a while ago after reading Chet Flippo's Yesterday and was also inspired by certain *other* Beatles books and their authors. It's not a very nice letter, but I thought that some of you might find it interesting reading...
Portrait of an American Writer
written by Lissa Michelle Supler
(aka Strawberry Sunshine)
This poem is done in what I call "three-sided style". On the left side are my "bad" character traits, the middle is the poem even though the lists are part of it as well, and the list on the right are my "good" traits. Note: Both lists were much shortened.
The Rising
written by Lissa Michelle Supler
(aka Strawberry Sunshine)
Lead by her dreams to New York City, Lynley Mathews is on her way to becoming a star. Her friends Angel and Noel learn some valuable lessons, not only about life but about each other. Helped by an unlikely fellow called Basil, they watch as Lynley rises to be the star she was born to be.