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John Bruni

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John Bruni was born on July 25, 1978 in Elmhurst, Illinois. He attended local schools from kindergarten all the way through college, where he spent time as a journalist for the Elmhurst College Leader, writing comic book reviews, an occasional feature article, and a series of regular columns as THE STRAIGHT with his Primitive Underbelly partner, Jesse “GonZo” Russell (whose story, “Bear’s Tale, Abridged” appears serialized in all three issues of TABARD INN). He was also the poetry editor of the campus literary/art magazine, MIDDLEWESTERN VOICE, for a whole two weeks, during which time he chose none of the poems that were published.

He has worked several jobs, among them selling ad space for a local newspaper publisher. He was not very good a
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Average rating: 3.96 · 550 ratings · 130 reviews · 73 distinct works
Tales of Questionable Taste

4.07 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions
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Strange Sex 3

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Poor Bastards and Rich Fucks

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Dong of Frankenstein

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Strip

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And Jesus Came Back

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Blood

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Tales of Unspeakable Taste

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Most of these stories were merely OK, but there are two I want to make special mention of. (I'm skipping the Kuttner and Moore story, as I've read it before.)

The first is "A Prize for Edie" by JF Bone. It's about the Nobel board giving out a prize to
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This was not a good anthology. I was disappointed in every story except for two, and I didn't even read one of them. (I've read "Harrison Bergeron" before, so I didn't need to go over it again.) However, the one remaining story is worth the entire bo ...more
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