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    The Mission Is a Pop Band: Varied Shorts
    The Mission Is a Pop Band: Varied Shorts
    The Mission Is a Pop Band: Varied Shorts
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    The Mission Is a Pop Band: Varied Shorts

    By Nick Armbrister

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    The Mission is a Pop Band – Varied Shorts by Nick Armbrister is a new short story collection. It features a wide variety of work and characters and topics. Stories cover raunchy goth gigs in England and Germany, a lady of the night plying her trade with different clients, and political dictators and how to stop them. Also here is a story about sport and does it matter? Ask ten people what they think. Then there is Karren the hit woman. Read about her journey. These and other work included here are all new . The volume finishes with an edited version of Nick's 2009 story Tattoo Me a Smile now called We Were Both Soldiers. A touching love story of a desperate situation.

    This book has something for everyone, be it new readers or Nick's established readers. Volume 2 will follow in 2020.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNick's Poetry Books
    Release dateJan 10, 2019
    ISBN9780463996461
    The Mission Is a Pop Band: Varied Shorts
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    Nick Armbrister

    Hi, this is the publishing writing profile for Nick Armbrister, an author and publisher from Manchester, England. His work includes varied poetry and stories, including short and novel length. Topics include history, erotica, aviation, current affairs and much more. Nick has been writing since 1996 and published in the 'small press' (poetry scene) and in books for many years. He does open mic, attends writing work shops and is always working on a writing project. He has writing online and in real world books. Follow Nick's writing, news updates and more on his varied blogs links. Enjoy his writing, something different and creative. Nick has also worked with several international writers/authors/poets.Nick's other interests are gothic/alternative music, gigs, tattoos, aircraft, reading, outdoors, paganism, hiking and life. He was born in 1971.

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      The Mission Is a Pop Band - Nick Armbrister

      The Mission is a Pop Band – Varied Shorts

      Nick Armbrister

      Copyright 2019 Nick Armbrister. All rights reserved.

      Published by Nick Armbrister at Smashwords.

      Only a single paragraph maybe used for reviewing purposes. Credit Nick Armbrister as author.

      Cover photo public domain.

      Other photos by Nick Armbrister.

      Disclaimer:

      This book is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to any person, living or dead, is purely coincidental. The names of people, places, and/or things are all created from the author’s mind and are only used for entertainment.

      Due to the content, this book is recommended for adults 18 years and older.

      Contents

      Dedication

      The Mission is a Pop Band!

      It’s More Fun in Germany

      Odd One Out

      X Marks Not the Spot

      Fake Broken Down Cars

      Diseased Minds in Power

      Fuck Fucking Fucked!

      Sportsly Times

      By the Tracks

      We Were Both Soldiers (previously Tattoo Me a Smile in 2009)

      About the Author

      Links

      Dedication

      Dedicated to small normal people everywhere...

      The Mission is a Pop Band!

      Manchester University 2009

      It has been said that music is the best healer there is. That is works better than drink, drugs, legal or not, and anything else. A young twenty something music fan was an example of that. He was not English but called the city sprawl of Manchester his home. It was a bit like his old home of Chengdu. From what little he knew of it. There was a music scene there and industry and a China Town just like here. And it rained a lot too. But there were better gigs in Manchester, England. He was at one now.

      The alternative/heavy metal lad was firm in his view. The 80s goth band The Mission was a pop band. He told everybody who would listen. Time and again. They got the message and he got a few enemies, some strong but most weak. But when you had cancer and only six months to live, you got away with it. Or did you? Did life make you a victim, illness or not?

      The guy was called Stephen with the ph and not the v. He made sure people knew that too. They always got his name wrong. Right now he was at a gig, yes that’s right, a Mission gig. Stephen was right at the front getting it on, he was the man. Right there at the front. He was head banging and moshing, even though they were a pop, I mean goth band. Some hard-line old skool 80s goths would argue with that, only the Sisters, the Cure, the Cult and Siouxsie were really goth in their eyes. Definitely not the Mission. Did they agree with them being a pop band? That was a difficult question. Stephen intended to find out and that meant asking them.

      Woo hoo! Fucking ace! I love your music! You’re a pop band! Stephen screamed as he danced and went mad to the Mission. For a pop band they were quite good. The support band had been almost a good.

      Stephen made sure he was noticed by them too, they were called Limitations and from Crewe. They played tight guitar music with heavy use of keyboards, three of them. It was just like an 80s synth band. Who

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