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 “...

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.

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 get through her Sweet Sixteen, while she deals with her own issues. This, coupled together with his unrelenti...

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...

With Spaceships Don't Come Equipped With Rearview Mirrors, Ran Walker returns with his second collection of one hundred 50-word stories, picking up where he left off with his first collection, The Strange Museum: 50-Word Stories. These new stories of humor, horror, science fiction, romance, literature, and poetic prose illustrate why Walker is considered a master of the form.

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...

Step into the Afroverse-a constellation of 100 microstories where Black futures, pasts, and presents collide in stunning bursts of imagination. In Fragments of the Afroverse, Ran Walker distills whole worlds into just 100 words each, weaving speculative fiction, surrealism, and cultural reflection into a tapestry of rhythm and possibility.From dreamlike scenarios to ancestral echoes, these compact narratives challenge boundaries and celebrate the richness of Black life acr...

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...

Modeled after a deck of playing cards, Four Suits: A Deck of 100-Word Stories contains 54 100-word stories, one story per card.With stories built around various interpretations of numbers and suits, this collection brings a variety of new stories from the prolific mind of one of microfiction's rising stars.

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...

"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!"

"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...