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Have you ever wanted to write a 100-word story but just didn't know how? Maybe you have written a few of them and would like to get better. Maybe you are curious about how writing 100-word stories might help you to accomplish other goals, either professional, academic, or creative. If any of these applies to you, this book is for you!Ran Walker, a creative writing professor and author of over 35 books (nine of which consist entirely of 100-word stories), offers advice on how to wri...

The Strange Museum: 50-Word Stories is a new collection of stories from Ran Walker, the 2019 winner of the Indie Author Project's National Indie Author of the Year Award. Each story contains exactly fifty words, save the title, and seeks to explore an entire narrative universe within its small space. The stories range from humorous to insightful to dark, and, yes, to strange!An Excerpt:INFINITYAttempting to be funny, Sherman asked our eccentric math professor what “...

"This book is rare indeed. [...] It's no grab-it-on-the-corner unedited literary fix. It's a mix of SOB's Sol Village, your parents' music, metropolis and culturally aware adoration."~ Erica "Rivaflowz" Buddington, Writer and HBO Def PoetChauncey "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 Grooves, is struggling to stay afloat, but...

"30 Love reminds me of the conversations I've had good friends over the years about getting older and being single. If you like romantic comedies, you'll enjoy this book."~ Phill Branch, Writer and Producer of The PuNanny DiariesDizzy 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 30, they will simply marry each other.While Lailah has long since forgotten ...

"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...

Ran Walker grounds Chaucer's ghost on an American interstate, packing thirty Black travelers onto a bus bound for Canterbury, Connecticut. This trip isn't a vacation; it's a collective pilgrimage where sharing a story is the only way to endure the mileage.The passenger list spans the entire culture, seating pastors near sneakerheads and scholars beside hustlers. As the bus rolls down the highway, the conversations inside turn into a fluid landscape of faith, doubt, and Afrosurreali...

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 awaits him.Almost immediately he finds himself connecting with Lailah’s best friend, Marcia, a woman who opens him up to the best time of his life. There’s only one catch: Marcia is on a temporary hiatus from her boyfriend to see if they have what it takes to get married, and that hiatus will end in two weeks.Undaunted, Chuc...

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...

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 a masterful achievement by award-winning author Ran Walker.

The books in Trevor's room sprout roots, turning into trees, while the darkness of overlapping words on his ceiling becomes a portal that lifts him into the spacious library of an antebellum house-somewhere between memory and dream.Somewhere inside this shifting library, something is waiting-maybe love, maybe freedom.Maybe Trevor himself.Trevor's Room: A 100 x 100 Micro Novel is a Afrosurreal dreamscape told in one hundred precise chapters, where the border...

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...

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...