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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 “...

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...

Angelino, a young loser like thousands of others in Dark Meat City, lives in a squalid hotel room in the Latin Quarter of Rios Rosas with his buddy Vinz. His days are spent between monotonous channel-surfing and working at the occasional odd job. Luckily, the Mexican wrestling matches he loves so much are on TV. From dead-end jobs to metaphysical discussions under starry skies with his buddy, his life slowly ticks by, until a seemingly banal scooter accident changes everything. Angelino su...

After fleeing the deadly chaos in the neighborhood of Palm Hill, Angelino and Vinz are pursued by men in black, determined to capture them at all costs. The time for taking things lightly is over: a price has been put on their heads. And then there are these monsters… The world is going crazy. Or are they the ones who are losing their minds? Things tend to become confusing when one must face the rampant irrationality of an imminent alien invasion…

As Plato’s famous Allegory of the Cave teaches us, philosophy can transform our life and elevate it. It can help us understand the narrow “cave” in which we are imprisoned and inspire us to step out of it towards greater horizons of human existence. The idea that philosophy can deepen and transform our lives has also been envisioned by other important philosophers throughout the ages – Marcus Aurelius, Rousseau, Nietzsche, and many others. This is also the vision of Philosophical Practice,...

The untold story of the elimination of Al Qaeda’s leader by a team of Navy Seals.

Discover a refreshingly candid perspective on mental illness and caregiving in a book unlike any other. Unlike the multitude of titles written by professionals for professionals, and the countless guides on caring for the elderly or sick, this book takes you on a deeply personal journey. This is the honest product of one person's quest to maintain sanity while supporting their beloved spouse through the tumultuous throes of mental illness. With unflinching...

"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...

Learning to ride and tame dragons comes easy to most students at Ansarivan Dragonar Academy - except for first-year student Ash Blake, who is known by his fellow classmates as the "number-one problem child." Poor Ash is the laughing stock at school because, despite his unfashionably large star-shaped brand that marks him as a future dragon master, he has nothing to show for it. His dragon has never appeared - until now, that is. One fateful day, Ash's dragon awakes in full glory, but appea...

Eunbyul's life is one long, awkward punchline. She's stuck in a dead-end job, broke, single, and clinging to the one thing she actually loves--her tiny apartment. But her peaceful little world flips upside down when a cranky pop idol accuses her of being a stalker after a bizarre rooftop mix-up.Trying to clear her name turns into a full-blown catastrophe. She runs into an old crush--now a famous webtoon artist. Then she loses her job, hits rock bottom, and finds her only hope of surviving ...

Forbes, Best Business Books of 2022Behavioral Scientist, Notable Books of 2022The facts, not the fiction, of America’s immigration experienceImmigration is one of the most fraught, and possibly most misunderstood, topics in American social discourse—yet, in most cases, the things we believe about immigration are based largely on myth, not facts. Using the tools of modern data analysis and ten years of pioneering research, new evidenc...

Eunbyul Han thought it was the worst day of her life when a misunderstanding resulted in her neighbor--superstar Kang Bin--thinking she was a stalker. Little did she know, the nightmare had only just begun! Thanks to Kang's bodyguard being a dear childhood friend and Eunbyul desperately needing a job, she finds herself tutoring the brattiest student ever.That leaves her precious little time to reconnect with another person from her past, Choi Junghoon, who seems to want to take their frien...