Bruce Allsman is a short story author and novelist. He writes in many genres, including literary, romance, science fiction, horror, fantasy, crime, mystery, thriller and suspense genres. He has work appearing or forthcoming in over a dozen venues. When he's not writing, he enjoys learning foreign languages.
A white hat hacker has to rescue two of his friends held captive by a mercenary at the behest of his frenemy, a diabolical billionaire technopreneur with a sinister plan.
An avaricious coin collector and his lovely young wife, his reluctant partner in crime swindles a beggar at a temple and must face minatory consequences when the beggar finds out and retaliates, causing them to lose more than just their wealth.
A willful child's relationship with her maids frustrates her Malaysian parents who are unable to fathom the reason for her tantrums, until it is too late.
This story is about a lonely octogenarian and her large dysfunctional family seen through the eyes of her caring next-door neighbor, a freelance writer, a single mother with a young son.
This Malaysian story is about an amorous bank teller who had broken the hearts of many young ladies until one day, he meets a glamour photographer and falls for her, in more ways than one.
A Malay security guard in a jewelry store foils a robbery despite being forewarned against it, forcing him to face consequences that far exceed his expectation or ability to cope.
A middle-aged Japanese expatriate in Malaysia encounters his new neighbor, a young and voluptuous Japanese adult video star who is the ward of an elderly Yakuza member, her uncle.
One night, when a lonely young wife catches more than a glimpse of a mysterious man from across her luxury condominium block, her life begins to get more complicated.
While exploring the exhibits of a vast private museum in Eastern Europe, a young mother loses her four-year-old daughter to human traffickers who intend to ship her child out before midnight.
Paralyzed after a skydiving accident, a skydiving instructor learns from his PI that it was no accident. To expose the culprit, he enlists the help of his billionaire friend to hatch an unusual plan.
A young struggling writer finds an old notebook left by her great grandmother that reveals an intriguing personal event in the last century. It causes her to see her present predicament in a different light.
An overworked corporate executive receives an unusual invitation from a coworker to attend a ten-day meditation retreat. Guided by a charming and charismatic meditation teacher, both young women must face their own feelings in an emotionally charged situation.
When her estranged brother comes all the way from the United States to the jungles of Borneo to visit, stirring up memories of her painful past about their family that she had severed ties with years ago, she questions his ulterior motive.
When the police relinquishes control of the crime scene, a house, its new owner wants to sell it because he couldn't bear to move in there, knowing what the tenant had done in it.
On an all-expense-paid vacation to a remote tropical island resort, a psychiatrist has to face her old friends, their shared tragic past, and a serial killer.
A young writer from the past struggling to find a way out of a time travel loop meets a young woman from the future who guides him and does more for him than he could ever imagine.
When offered a lucrative contract to ghostwrite the memoirs of a deceased business tycoon, a freelance writer and her husband take up temporary residence in the tycoon's old mansion in the remote mountains of Pahang, unaware of an adversary with an evil design.
Sam Lee, a self-exiled former MMA champion and ex-Theravada Buddhist monk, takes a break from his mixed martial arts training school in Bangkok to return to Penang to help his twin brother, Brian Lee, solve a murder connected with a ghost from the past.
Forced by circumstances beyond his understanding or control, a fourteen-year-old boy tries to evade his future mentor and his initiation into a world of evil.
In Thailand, a young American man lives a bohemian lifestyle with a promiscuous Thai teenage girl. When an unexpected visitor from home arrives, he receives an ultimatum that affects his future.