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Ran Walker
This book is a collection of 100-word stories, each inspired by a card from a playing deck.
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In his first collection of prose poems, Ran Walker explores the island of O?ahu in Hawaii from the perspective of a curious tourist and admirer. These fifty poems, honoring the…
Ranging from the mundane to the magical, the humorous to the horrifying, Apollo's Toy Box blends microfiction and prose poetry seamlessly over the course of 300 original pieces and marks…
In this companion to Ran Walker's collection Apollo's Toy Box, Gods Among Men picks up where he left off, offering a diverse collection of 100 new pieces that further explore…
The poems in Ran Walker’s collection use an African-American poetic form called the Kwansaba, which was created in 1995 by Dr. Eugene Redmond. The poems follow a seven-line, seven-words per…
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Stephen King once said that books are portable magic. Ran Walker decided to take this phrase a bit more literally in his third short story collection, bringing to life vibrant…
Marz Banx, the legendary MC, is lamenting what it means to be in the rap game at the age of forty. Feeling like the game has passed him by and…
In his second major story collection, Ran Walker takes on issues of race, cultural appropriation, politics, family, relationships, and the value of Black lives.
In the title story, two young…
Kamal Jackson is a black novelist who has reached an impasse in his career. His work is either too white for black audiences or too black for white audiences. He…
Chauncey Cool Brown has just been named one of Soul Sista magazine’s 25 Most Eligible Bachelors and the news couldn’t have come at a better time. His business, C&J’s Rare…
Dizzy and Lailah are life-long best friends who, on a whim, make a deal at the age of 20 that if they are both single by the time they turn…
In this sexy follow up to 30 Love: A Novel, Charles Chucky Buckner arrives at the wedding of his friends Dizzy and Lailah, but he has no idea of what…
He has left his hometown to avoid an ex-girlfriend who has since remarried. In his new town, he lives a mundane existence until a new co-worker invites him into her…
The year is 1997, and Troy Dobbs has just graduated from Ellison-Wright College in Atlanta. For Troy’s graduation gift, his Aunt Flo allows him to housesit her Brooklyn Heights brownstone…
In this diverse collection of short stories, with settings ranging from Mississippi to New York City, Ran Walker explores a myriad of themes, such as unrequited love, forgiveness, and hope…
Miles Thompson, an R&B singer-turned-music teacher, is still reeling from the violent loss of his only son when he crosses paths with Ja Kendrick Brown, a fifteen-year-old homeless piano prodigy.
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Less than three hours after Lincoln Davis’s graduation, his father delivers him an ultimatum: come back home to Mississippi and start paying rent on his bedroom or fend for himself…
For the first time in the history of Daily, Mississippi, the election ballot is completely divided, with a black and white candidate running for each office. Even more, the newly…
Three boroughs. Two people. One summer that could change everything.
This is not a love story, she said.
Good. I’ve never been big on those, he responded.
But this might…
You’re trying to do too much with this collection, a friend told him. I can’t tell if you’re writing jokes or poems or stories. This book is all over the…
A first-time novelist is assigned the task of interviewing a legendary bluesman for a magazine article.
A fifteen-year-old boy struggles to make sense of his parents’ deaths by turning to…
Imagine a world where the only people who see in color are those who have found their true soulmates.
Slate is a 40-year-old guy who, like billions of others, has…
100-word stories. Drabbles. Short short stories. Whatever you call them, they pack quite a powerful punch for such a small size.
In Keep It 100, Ran Walker explores a variety…
In this Afrosurrealistic novel conjuring the energy of Keith Knight’s WOKE and Donald Glover’s ATLANTA, an unemployed cartoonist must pick up the pieces of his life after a failed marriage…
It's 1983, and all Andy Parker wants for Christmas is a Mr. T action figure. That shouldn't be so hard to find, right?
A Different Kind of Christmas Story presents…
Ran Walker continues to blur the fine line between microfiction and prose poetry in this new collection of 100-word stories, spanning many different genres.
With Spaceships Don't Come Equipped With Rearview Mirrors, Ran Walker returns with his second collection of one hundred 50-word stories, picking up where he left off with his first collection…
Drawing off a wide assortment of literary and artistic influences, Ran Walker explores the extremely fine line between microfiction and narrative prose poetry using a 100-word framework that stretches the…
A young boy wrestles with what it means to have long hair. A woman finds herself accepting a relationship she knows is not good for her. A generation of successful…
I’m never quite at ease in a Ran Walker story. And that’s a good thing. He’s a master of the 100-word form.
GRANT FAULKNER, Executive Director of NaNoWriMo and Co-Founder…
What can you do with fifty words? Apparently a lot! Ran Walker’s new story collection pulls together one hundred 50-word stories that will delight any reader.
Whether it’s for the comfort, the style, the collectibility, or the investment potential, sneakers play a huge role in pop culture. Ran Walker and Van G. Garrett decided to explore…
Ran Walker, Matthew Garcia-Dunn
Welcome to Sparkadia! It's the most fantastic city inside, outside, and in between the grand kaleidoscope known as the multiverse. This handy traveler's companion showcases the splendor, the joy, and…
M. Sigrist,Ran Zadok,C. B. F. Walker
This catalogue is the third in a series publishing the whole collection of Babylonian and Sumerian tablets in the British Museum. In this volume over 7,000 tablets acquired in the…
