Into My Life
Introduction
(Explanation, actually. Anything this weird requires explaining!)
When I was a teenager, I was Beatle crazy. So was my younger sister. Every night we would stack an increasing number of their albums on the record player and crawl into bed to listen and dream. Having been blessed with an overactive imagination, I wasn't content to just dream about them, however. I began to make up stories for my sister about how I would get to meet the Beatles and go to England with them. I remember few of the details of the stories, but they were all as innocent as we were. Time marched on.
I grew up, got married, and left my Beatles albums behind for my other sisters to discover and go through Beatlemania as a teenage rite of passage.
Having rediscovered the Beatles when their albums came out on CD, my sister and I laughingly recalled those stories when we got together one Christmas. Later that year we planned a "Sisters Weekend" and while thinking up entertainment for the event, I remembered the stories. Remembering their innocence - not so much as a kiss! - I decided to write an "adult" version in the style of those paperbacks whose cover depicts a maiden with heaving bosom bursting from her gown while held in the shirtless, broad shouldered, muscular embrace of Fabio.
With a stack of Beatles albums on the CD player to evoke memories
and set the mood, I sat down at my computer and started out. It was
supposed to be a short, funny, sexy little story, but it just grew and grew!
Somewhere along the line, the story decided it wanted to be a romance,
not a parody, and I let it happen. When I found my memories of the
sixties a little hazy on facts like whether or not pantyhose had been invented
yet, I got the old World Book Encyclopedia Yearbooks off the shelf.
I went to the library to get books about the Beatles to get the basic facts
of touring dates, marriages, children. My little story was turning
into a project, and I was having a blast! I loved stringing the
words together, creating a mood, developing characters, contriving a plot.
I tried to fit the story in around historical facts, but found that
facts are very inconvenient! So the end result is facts where facts
didn't interfere. Well-versed Beatles fans may find the 'errors'
distracting, but I don't think they will ruin the story for them. For
other readers, I repeat: This is fiction! Don't take dates, events, or
interpretations as anything but fiction tossed loosely over a framework of
facts.
Before you read this, a few warnings. Don't expect to find good literature
with a carefully crafted plot, good character development, symbolism, syntax,
etc. There is fairly explicit sex -- or at least as explicit as I had
the nerve to make it!. If all that turns you off, proceed at your own
risk and don't say I didn't warn you. You will be bored, intellectually
insulted, morally offended, and appalled that anyone would waste their time
on such trash. The rest of us will just kick back and have a nice
stroll down memory lane with a little sex thrown in for spice and romance
for . . . well, for whatever the hell romance is for.
Diane
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