(Recommended Reads) "Special Delivery" By Lily Mulholland

I screw the lid on the flask, being careful not to spill the contents. It took a lot of effort to fill it and I didn’t want to waste a drop. Wrapping the flask in foil to keep it warm, I place it securely in my messenger bag...

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5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Fifty

Everyone expected Amazing Ed to fight Fuego over leadership of the team, no one expected him to grease himself so throughly.

5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Forty Nine

This year's reality show hit followed programming executives as they scrambled to create this year's reality show hit.

5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Forty Eight

Julie was the kind of beautiful, sexually agressive woman all men dreamed of meeting but where then terrified of if they did.

(Recommended Reads) "Morning Commute" by J Dane Tyler

Eddie sat in his usual corner at the back of the train car on the upper deck, face turned to the window. He didn’t look at me when I got to the top of the stairs at the front of the car. Usually he smiles. A woman in the front seat opposite us on the lower level was the only other person in the car. She had a pastel pink and yellow blanket over her outstretched legs, feet on the facing seat, head tipped onto her shoulder. The dark outside tarred the windows. Only stray piercings of light got through when a car passed or a street light went by...

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5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Forty Seven

It wasn't until his fourth adventure that the Ironcommando discovered that severe allergies and armored battlesuits didn't mix.

(Recommended Reads) "An Unsent Letter From Tommy" by Chance4321

I wonder what your reaction would be if I told you about the chap opposite me who was given hydrochloric acid instead of water this morning. Or of the person in the bed next to me, who I watched peel back all of his fingernails, one by one, the other day. I wonder if I could even tell you the horror of two nights ago. I could lay out the events as they unfolded. The swishing sound that I awoke too. The noise of a struggle. The lights coming on. But I do not know what words I would use to describe the sight of the patients in the beds opposite mine, who’d had their throats and faces slashed. I do not understand myself, let alone feel able to describe how I felt when I saw the patient from bed three standing in the corner with his razor in hand, foaming at the mouth, and who continued to grin even when the guards and orderlies wrestled him to the floor...

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5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Forty Six

Teen heartthrobs and porn stars share equally obsessive fan bases and roughly equal shelf lives.

5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Forty Five

It was just like Audra to bring witchcraft to a gunfight.

(Recommended Reads) Downtown - The Shop Keeper by Laurita Miller

She arrived every Thursday at exactly eleven forty-five. He watched and waited until he could see her through the window, then busied himself behind the counter until he heard the door chime.

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5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Forty Four

To keep her husband she had her chin tucked and her nose trimmed but then she really wasn't the woman he'd fallen in love with.

5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Forty Three

It wasn't until an army of giant robots attacked the junior prom that Kevin began to suspect his father was a super hero.

(Recommended Reads) Race for a Spirit by Jeff Posey

I stood in a raw wind outside Arboles, Colorado, waiting for Sean O’Brien to come out of the trailer house parked close to a Navajo Hogan. I hadn’t seen him since high school and I didn’t know if I’d recognize him. Those particular six years change people a good deal...

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5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Forty Two

The worst part of there being no afterlife was the lives wasted in anticipation.

5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Forty One

The best part of there being an afterlife was the chance to finally get in those long delayed apologies.

5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Forty

The worst part about there being an afterlife was the long lines for everything.

5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Thirty Nine

The best part of there being no afterlife was the chance to get in the last word.

5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Thirty Eight

All the bathroom walls in town advised Greg to call Sue for a good time and he had to admit she was a Hell of a canasta player.

5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Thirty Seven

CGI allows elements of two films to be blended but should the cast of Wizard of Oz met the plot of Cannibal Holocaust?

5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Thirty Six

The 80 year old coprophiliac's fetish for telemarketers caused them to create a Do Not Call list of their own.

5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Thirty Five

Gary didn't see the point of getting the dishwasher fixed as long as they had a dog.

My web page has been fixed!

The Al Bruno III Webpage

I killed my web page!

But I promise you that albruno3.com is not dead, merely dreaming.

Thank you for your patience.

5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Thirty Four

Very few ax murderers can succeed as corporate supervisors but those that do have teams with the highest productivity levels.

5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Thirty Three

With Captain Hero gone there was nothing to stop Psychotic Kid from doing things his way, so the rest of the team hid his costume.

5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Thirty Two

They caught pneumonia making love in the rain but they would tell you it wasn't phlegm they were coughing up. It was desire.

5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Thirty One

He worked as a cliff diver, bear wrestler and stunt driver; anything to avoid working in a call center.

5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Thirty

They tried to cure is impotence with a computerized implant but the firmware failed.

5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Twenty Nine

It was the fifteenth annual time travelers convention, tomorrow was the sixteenth annual time travelers convention.

5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Twenty Eight

“I have no patience with computers,” Isobel said, “you stare too long into an operating system and it stares into you.”

5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Twenty Seven

That night he dreamed of kissing an old girlfriend, coincidentally his wife dreamed she was plucking fuzzy peaches from a tree.

5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Twenty Six

The aliens replaced all the world's leaders with idiot look-a-likes; things actually improved.

5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Twenty Five

Keeping a diary was boring so she began writing fan fiction about herself, from these humble beginnings a major religion was born.

A Shill? You're soaking in it!

IN THIS TWILIGHT
tales of lost gods and fragile transformations

This collection of 13 stories transports you to a world where both dreams and monsters lurk in the shadows, where love and forgotten rituals fight for control of the human heart, and where the madness of eternity can be glimpsed in a single segmented eye.

This anthology collects some of the best stories from Al Bruno III's website and includes the novellas 'Chad's Oracles', 'Fully Vested' and 'The Mask Collector', available for the first time anywhere.

IN THE MIDNIGHT OF HIS HEART
a novel of horror and obsession

To all outward appearances John Sig is just an old man living a quietly in an empty old house. His one pleasure is when he heads down to the local diner and visits with his favorite waitress Angie. When Angie disappears, John sets out to find her. For an ordinary old man that might seem like a foolish idea but John Sig isn't human, he's a monster living in the shadow of a nightmare thirty -five years old.

In The Pit

This is the comic book I wrote, that sadly it never made it past the first issue. Too bad I had envisioned a fantastic tale of serial killers, Canadian pro wrestlers and exploding toilets. Still though I think you might enjoying reading the first issue, it is still available as a PDF file. There are also some preview pages at the sight below.

Order away and weep for what might have been.



Some of my best work is available from the fine folks at Eden Studios. My contribution to their game lines has been mainly in the area of fiction. The rules and setting information was written by other very capable folks like Richard Dakan, CJ Carella, Jack Emmert, George Vasilakos and M. Alexander Jurkat. Believe me, they did all the hard work. If you are a fan of role-playing games or a fan of zombie movies then the books below are going to be right up your alley.

ALL FLESH MUST BE EATEN main rulebook

Enter the dark world of survival horror. The Dead walk among us. This role-playing game allows you to play in a world infested by the walking dead. The main rulebook includes rules for character creation, combat and everything else you need to play in a world of survival horror. Also detailed are the multiple campaign settings so you can customize the type of "deadworld" you wish to explore.232 pages.Hardcover.Cover Art by Christopher Shy.

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ZOMBIE MASTER SCREEN

A must-have reference for All Flesh Must Be Eaten, the Zombie Master's Screen is filled with charts and tables. From fear to weapons to outcomes, every reference that a prepared Zombie Master needs is packed onto a four-panel screen. The flip side of the screen scares and delights the players with full-color zombie images.
The Screen is packed with a 48-page booklet, including a ready-to-run adventure introducing the Cast Member to the horrors of a zombie plague, and pregenerated characters with complete bios, statistics and resource information.
Cover Art by Christopher Shy and George Vasilakos.

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ENTER THE ZOMBIE

Written by Richard DakanThe first supplement to All Flesh Must Be Eaten opens whole new vistas for a walking dead campaign. This tome brings together the thrills of Hong Kong action films and the excitement of flesh-craving horror. The match of these two genres may not have seemed obvious at first, but the pleasures that arise from it are undeniable. After all, zombies and Hong Kong style action make a perfect fit. What better match is there for a relentless series of lightning kicks and a hurricane of bullets than a target that can’t die? The pulse-pounding danger just never stops. Besides, what martial arts master worth his salt doesn't ache for the ability to use his own intestines as a deadly whip? For the undead, no problem!Softcover.Cover Art by Christopher Shy.

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TERRA PRIMATE

Written by Al Bruno III, CJ Carella, David F. Chapman, Patrick SweenyBased on the original concept by George Vasilakos and Ross IsaacsEdited by M. Alexander Jurkat, David F. ChapmanCover art by Jeff ReitzInterior Art by Storn Cook, Thomas Denmark, Talon Dunning, DW Gross, Jon Hodgson, Chris Keefe, Jason Millet, Matt Morrow, James Powers, Gregory Price, George Vasilakos
From the creators of All Flesh Must Be Eaten, similar in style but this time . . . with apes! Terra Primate has no specific setting. The only constant is the concept of intelligent apes. Planet of the Apes is a movie about intelligent apes, but then again so is Congo. As long as the characters are interacting with intelligent apes -- or are intelligent apes themselves! -- the game could be set in the pulp era of adventure, on a post-apocalyptic Earth, on a faraway alien planet, or downtown on Main Street.
The main rulebook includes rules for character creation, combat and everything else you need to play in a world where man is the missing link! Also detailed are the multiple campaign settings so you can customize the type of "Apeworld" you wish to explore.

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