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...

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.

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.

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...

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 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...

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 juxtapositions between prose poetry and microfiction, while delving into humor, horror, race, and everything in between.

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...

Brown Voodoo Messiah is Ran Walker's love letter to D'Angelo--the sound, the silence, and the spirit that lingers between them. In twenty-five 100-word stories arranged like a double-sided vinyl album, Walker channels the pulse of Brown Sugar, the mystic funk of Voodoo, and the revolutionary hum of Black Messiah. Each piece carries the rhythm of devotion, translating melody into memory and groove into grace. With precision and reverence, Walker reimagine...

In The Seven Wonders of Stevie: Kwansabas, award-winning author Ran Walker pays homage to the musical brilliance and cultural legacy of Stevie Wonder through the disciplined elegance of kwansabas, a poetic form created by Dr. Eugene B. Redmond and rooted in the Black literary tradition.With lyricism, reverence, and soul, Walker explores Wonder's sound, spirit, and influence, crafting a poetic celebration that resonates like a timeless groove. This collection is both tribut...

In their second collaboration, Ran Walker and Van G. Garrett pay tribute to the sneaker culture through this collection of new poems, including a micro saga-in-verse and a mixtape of prose poems. Paying homage to A Tribe Called Quest, DJ Clark Kent, and numerous other sneaker legends, this collection is sure to appeal to lovers of poetry and sneakers, alike.

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...