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  • The Night Before the End of the World
    Ran Walker
    In The Night Before the End of the World, award-winning author Ran 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 nightma...
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    15,00 €

  • Gods Among Men
    Ran Walker
    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. ...
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    12,94 €

  • Apollo’s Toy Box
    Ran Walker
    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. ...
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    18,58 €

  • Black Marker
    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, B...
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    10,42 €

  • A Burst of Gray
    Ran Walker
    Imagine a world where the only people who see in color are those who have found their true soulmates.Slate is a 40-year-old guy who, like billions of others, has only seen the world through its various hues of black, white, and gray. This wouldn’t be a problem, except his parents were true soulmates and, therefore, Chromats (those who can see in color). As a result, he holds ou...
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    10,47 €

  • Keep It 100
    Ran Walker
    100-word stories. Drabbles. Short short stories. Whatever you call them, they pack quite a powerful punch for such a small size.In Keep It 100, Ran Walker explores a variety of different genres and themes, from stories inspired by classic literature to stories that tackle current events. Done with the mind of a novelist and the heart of a poet, this collection is sure to resona...
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    12,08 €

  • The Last Bluesman
    Ran Walker
    A first-time novelist is assigned the task of interviewing a legendary bluesman for a magazine article. A fifteen-year-old boy struggles to make sense of his parents’ deaths by turning to blues music.An estranged son seeks answers for his father’s absence.​Discover how these lives are forever altered by their interactions with an all but forgotten bluesman named Morris 'Mojo' J...
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    12,59 €

  • Can I Kick It?
    Ran Walker
    Whether it’s for the comfort, the style, the collectibility, or the investment potential, sneakers play a huge role in pop culture. Ran Walker and Van G. Garrett decided to explore the various aspects of sneaker culture in this collection of microfiction and poetry.More than a celebration of sneaker culture, Can I Kick It? creatively explores everything from that first pair of ...
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    8,99 €

  • The World Is Yours
    Ran Walker
    'You’re trying to do too much with this collection,' a friend told him. 'I can’t tell if you’re writing jokes or poems or stories. This book is all over the place!'He nodded. Maybe it was. But then there are so many different aspects to a person’s personality, he figured. Maybe an eclectic collection of stories wasn’t such a bad thing after all.At least he hoped so.***Ran Walke...
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    6,99 €

  • The Strange Museum
    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 strang...
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    7,91 €

  • Portable Black Magic
    Ran Walker
    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. A...
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    9,54 €

  • The Race of Races
    Ran Walker
    For the first time in the history of Daily, Mississippi, the election ballot is completely divided, with a black and white candidate running for each office. Even more, the newly districted senatorial seat is up for grabs.  David McKlusky, a millionaire lawyer seeking to establish his own legacy outside the shadows of his wife's family, dives into the race, only to be consu...
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    11,67 €

  • The Illest
    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 h...
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    9,65 €

  • White Pages
    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...
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    11,82 €

  • 30 Love
    Ran Walker
    Dizzy 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 this promise, Dizzy hasn't. When he proposes and Lailah reluctantly accepts, the road to the altar is anything but easy.In the vein of Love and Basketball and B...
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    11,78 €

  • Work-In-Progress
    Ran Walker
    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...
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    7,46 €

  • Afro Nerd in Love
    Ran Walker
    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 s...
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    9,59 €

  • Bessie, Bop, or Bach
    Ran Walker
    In this diverse collection of short stories, with settings ranging from Mississippi to New York City, Ran Walker explores a myriad of themes, such as unrequited love, forgiveness, and hope. Whether a grandmother’s secret is discovered by her granddaughter, a writer falls in love with the painting of a woman, or a college professor is invited to rap on his student’s mixtape, the...
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    9,52 €

  • B-Sides and Remixes
    Ran Walker
    Chauncey “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 Soul Sista has a suggestion that could change everything: write a column for their website where he documents his dates with three women selected by their readers.C...
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    11,68 €

  • The Keys of My Soul
    Ran Walker
    Miles Thompson, an R&B singer-turned-music teacher, is still reeling from the violent loss of his only son when he crosses paths with Ja Kendrick Brown, a fifteen-year-old homeless piano prodigy. As the two form an unlikely bond, they soon discover that music and friendship have the power to help a sonless father and a fatherless son find life after loss. ...
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    11,39 €

  • She Lives In My Lap
    Ran Walker
    Less than three hours after Lincoln Davis's graduation, his father delivers him an ultimatum: come back home to Mississippi and start paying rent on his bedroom or fend for himself in Atlanta as a completely independent adult. Choosing the latter, Lincoln finds himself meeting a whole new cast of characters who help him to navigate this new terrain. Among this cast, however...
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    9,55 €

  • Black Hand Side
    Ran Walker
    In his second major story collection, Ran Walker takes on issues of race, cultural appropriation, politics, family, relationships, and the value of Black lives. In the title story, two young men go to participate in a handshake competition but find themselves up against an obstacle they did not anticipate. In “The Impersonator” a comedian finds a job that ultimately contributes...
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    9,58 €

  • Reverb
    Ran Walker
    Marz Banx, the legendary MC, is lamenting what it means to be in the rap game at the age of forty. Feeling like the game has passed him by and becoming more focused on his daughter, Jazz, he decides to interview for a job as a college professor in Nashville to be closer to her. While Marz is planning his escape from New York, he also finds himself trying to help his daughter ge...
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    9,59 €