In Canterbury, Ran Walker reimagines The Canterbury Tales as a contemporary Black pilgrimage, where storytelling becomes both offering and survival. Thirty pilgrims-pastors, skeptics, sneakerheads, scholars, hustlers, dreamers, and witnesses-travel toward a shared destination, each taking a turn to speak. Their stories move through faith and doubt, humor and grief, realism and afrosurrealism, forming a chorus shaped by history and the present moment.Structured acr...

"Ran Walker's A Burst of Gray electrifies the reader into a new world of colors and images while reminding us all that true love is destiny."Chris L. Butler, author of BLERD: '80s BABY, '90s KID"With its inventive structure and deep emotional core, Walker's A Burst of Gray is a stunning bit of micro sci-fi bliss, where our soulmates reveal their colorful selves in our not-so-distant, monochromatic future. A thought-provoking and engrossing read!"

"Tender and strange, startling and lyrical, witty and nuanced, Ran Walker’s stories lingered in my mind long after I finished reading them. His prose is taut, precise, and economical, but each one of these tiny stories is expansive in the way it enlarges the world through an eclectic mixture of distinctive characters and surprising plots. 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 o...

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 proposal, only to find that his world has become far more absurd than anything he could have ever imagined, let alone attempted to draw.Told in chapters composed of exactly 100 words each, Black Marker is a wild ride through the amusement park of Ran Walker's imaginatio...

Modeled after a deck of playing cards, Four Suits: A Deck of 100-Word Stories contains 54 100-word stories, one story per card.With stories built around various interpretations of numbers and suits, this collection brings a variety of new stories from the prolific mind of one of microfiction's rising stars.

In The Night Before the End of the World, award-winning authorRan Walker crafts 200 microfiction and prose poem pieces that pulse with afrosurrealism, horror, humor, love, and loss.Each piece, ranging from 9-235 words, explores the wild and often uneasy dance between technology and human creativity. Walker blends the bizarre with the everyday, bringing to life digital nightmares, fractured love stories, and moments of unexpected humor in a world on the edge of coll...

Step into the Afroverse-a constellation of 100 microstories where Black futures, pasts, and presents collide in stunning bursts of imagination. In Fragments of the Afroverse, Ran Walker distills whole worlds into just 100 words each, weaving speculative fiction, surrealism, and cultural reflection into a tapestry of rhythm and possibility.From dreamlike scenarios to ancestral echoes, these compact narratives challenge boundaries and celebrate the richness of Black life acr...

In a city where the crowds have vanished, only two remain. Together they wander streets once filled with voices, searching for meaning in the stillness and for connection in each other. What begins as survival slowly unfolds into something deeper-a meditation on love, possibility, and the quiet rediscovery of life itself.Deux is a tender 50 x 50 micro novella that imagines a modern Eden: two souls, one world, and the boundless journey of what it means to be human, together...

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 imagination, forcing the reader to consider whether prose poetry is really all that different from its sibling, microfiction.

Praise for Ran Walker"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 of 100 Word Story"He's just that talented. To paraphrase Ethridge Knight: Making jazz swing in one hundred words AIN’T no square writer’s job."~ RION AMILCAR SCOTT, award-winning author of Insurrections and The World Doesn't Require You"Ran Walker is a writer...

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 intimate world and pushes him farther from the safety of his old identity.In this experimental novella, Ran Walker uses flash fiction to write a “fuga hacia adelante” (flight forward) story, modeled after the works of Argentinean author César Aira. In a story that uses no names, uses no traditional plot structure, and f...

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 for a month while she travels abroad.For the first week, things are cool and uneventful, but when a beautiful movie star shows up at his front door to return something she borrowed from his aunt, Troy's humdrum vacation is tranformed into an adventure that he will never forget.The Illest i...