A Beatles Encore

by Bruce Grimes

Two old ladies, Wilma and Ruth, baked banana bread and M&M cookies to sell at the farmer’s market. They sold all the cookies and used the money they earned to go to a haunted mansion.

At the haunted mansion, they saw a ghost of Michael Jackson. They screamed, “Ahhh!” and fainted. The ghost went inside their bodies and said, “Let’s fly an airplane – a ghost plane.”

There was a World War II plane inside a TV in the haunted house. The ghost had a magic remote control. He said, “Come with me if you want a ride.” 

The old ladies said, “Did you hear that?” 

Suddenly, they saw two more ghosts – John Lennon and George Harrison of the Beatles. 

Together, they all went to a fun house. They went through a psychic room there and lost Michael Jackson along the way. But John Lennon and George Harrison were still with them. 

The ladies started singing Halloween songs, starting with “Monster Mash.” They hadn’t been very good singers before, but suddenly they could sing very well because of the ghosts nearby.

After they sang “Monster Mash,” they started singing “As My Guitar Gently Weeps.” They went to TCF football stadium. There, they started singing to a live crowd. The ladies said, “I can’t believe we just sang that song!” The ghosts said, in a British accent, “Wow ladies, you sing just like us!” The crowd at the stadium wanted more, so they clapped and clapped their hands together. “Give us more!” they shouted. So Wilma and Ruth asked for a lot of money to keep singing. They wanted to give the money to Gillette Children’s Hospital in St. Paul. 

The crowd said, “Do more! We’ll give you so much money if you keep singing Beatles songs!”

They sang a full concert of Beatles songs. The crowd loved it. After the concert was over, the ladies went to a nearby hotel; the ghosts of John Lennon and George Harrison wanted to stay near the stage at the stadium. 

Wilma and Ruth said, “Oh, now we can’t sing anymore.” They felt sad about that. To make themselves feel better, they decided to do something they enjoyed doing together: Drawing. They drew some scary pictures, but that made them feel doomed. It didn’t really make them feel better. So instead, they drew some pictures of the Beatles on-stage in 1968 when they were very young and starting to get famous.
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That felt like a nice conclusion to their singing adventure.