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Apollo’s Toy Box

Apollo’s Toy Box

Ran Walker

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Editorial:
Black and Square
Año de edición:
2024
Materia
Poesía
ISBN:
9781961753068
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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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