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A Burst of Gray

A Novel In 100-Word Stories

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"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 ... Read more

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"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
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Portable Black Magic

Tales of the Afro Strange

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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 new landscapes of both the strange and the familiar.A writer finds himself in a love triangle where one of the women is a ghost. A woman discovers that her cure for alopecia has unintended consequences. An artist paints a ... Read more

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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 new landscapes of both the strange and the familiar.A writer finds himself in a love triangle where one of the women is a ghost. A woman discovers that her cure for alopecia has unintended consequences. An artist paints a
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Keep It 100

100-Word Stories

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"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 ... Read more

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"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
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The Illest

A Novella

by Ran Walker ...

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 ... Read more

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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
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Work-In-Progress

A Novella

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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 ... Read more

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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
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The Library of Afro Curiosities

100-Word Stories

by Ran Walker ...

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 ... Read more

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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
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Black Marker

A Novel In 100-Word Stories

by Ran Walker ...

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 ... Read more

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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
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The Strange Museum

50-Word Stories

by Ran Walker ...

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 ... Read more

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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
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Bees + Things + Flowers

Microfictions

by Ran Walker ...

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 hurt a little.""Well, then make it hurt good."So begins Ran Walker's 19th book, a collection of microfiction that tells the story of a relationship between two unnamed characters and their romance over the course of a single ... Read more

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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 hurt a little.""Well, then make it hurt good."So begins Ran Walker's 19th book, a collection of microfiction that tells the story of a relationship between two unnamed characters and their romance over the course of a single
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White Pages

A Novel

by Ran Walker ...

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 decides to do something about it, in spite of the opposition he gets from his new love interest, Yasmin.Concocting a Caucasian-sounding pseudonym and a backstory to rival J. D. Salinger's, Kamal sets out to rework his most current novel ... Read more

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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 decides to do something about it, in spite of the opposition he gets from his new love interest, Yasmin.Concocting a Caucasian-sounding pseudonym and a backstory to rival J. D. Salinger's, Kamal sets out to rework his most current novel
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B-Sides and Remixes

A Novel

by Ran Walker ...

Series Book 1 - B-Sides
"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, ... Read more

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"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,
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A Different Kind of Christmas

A Carol in 100-Word Stories

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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 the small town of Daily, Mississippi, a fictional town from Ran Walker's literary universe, and introduces a community that has found its own joy in the season: Christmas pageants, parades, toys, and everything in between.Told in ... Read more

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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 the small town of Daily, Mississippi, a fictional town from Ran Walker's literary universe, and introduces a community that has found its own joy in the season: Christmas pageants, parades, toys, and everything in between.Told in
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