* This novel was originally published as Mojo's Guitar.“Ran Walker's The Last Bluesman plays an authentic Blues song on the page, filled with all the sorrow, heartache, and beauty that entails. This layered, haunting book is worth listening to.” ~ Mat Johnson, author of Pym and Loving Day“Ran Walker brings the blues into the 21st century and shows us how we can never forget our roots as long as we keep the love in our hea...

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 for a new round of publishers.Kamal must now ask if he is prepared to sacrifice...

"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...

"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 future. A thought-provoking and engrossing read!"

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 and The World Doesn't Require You"Ran Walker is a writer...

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...

“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 Walker's twentieth book pulls together a wide variety of microfiction stories. F...

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 woman he has been dreaming about, only to discover his dreams might be closer to reality...

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 “...

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 summer in New York City.Flowing like a mixtape, t...

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 chapters of exactly 100-words, this is a different kind of Christmas story f...

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 J's to the latest Yeezy obsession.