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Bruce Costello

Bruce Costello lives in the seaside village of Hampden, New Zealand. After studying foreign languages and literature in the late sixties at the University of Canterbury, he spent a few years selling used cars. Then he worked as a radio creative writer for fourteen years, before training in something completely different and rather weird and spending 24 years in private practice. In 2010, he semi-retired and took up writing. Since then, he’s had about a hundred stories accepted by mainstream magazines and literary journals in seven countries.
Bruce Costello

Bruce Costello

Bruce Costello lives in the seaside village of Hampden, New Zealand. After studying foreign languages and literature in the late sixties at the University of Canterbury, he spent a few years selling used cars. Then he worked as a radio creative writer for fourteen years, before training in something completely different and rather weird and spending 24 years in private practice. In 2010, he semi-retired and took up writing. Since then, he’s had about a hundred stories accepted by mainstream magazines and literary journals in seven countries.
Realism
Bruce Costello

Only Human

A doctor is surprised when his patient wholeheartedly accepts his terminal diagnosis.

 
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Humour
Bruce Costello

Sex in Cyburbia

Dating has always been a fraught process, but now all you need is a computer to conjure up the perfect woman.

 
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