Ran Walker Knihy

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, the collection reads like a concept album, revealing the highs and lows of two people fighting against time to build a relationship that could change them both.

Welcome to Sparkadia! It's the most fantastic city inside, outside, and in between the grand kaleidoscope known as the multiverse. This handy traveler's companion showcases the splendor, the joy, and the wonder of the only metropolis that transcends time, space, and reality as we know it. Longtime resident (and tennis ball enthusiast) Max is an insightful resource to the haunts, traditions, and quirky folks who call Sparkadia their home. He will show you how to meet the Machina, befriend the Fabled, and speculate about the enigmatic Avos. This is a truly out-of-this-universe experience to behold! With stories both short and long, both fantastical and unfathomable, Welcome to Sparkadia showcases a cosmic destination you'll want to visit over and over again both inside and outside of reality, and introduce you to a community of friendly folks who want to help you find your spark.

"The poems in Ran Walker's collection use an African-American poetic form called the Kwansaba, which was created in 1995 by Dr. Eugene Redmond. The poems follow a seven-line, seven-words per line pattern with no word more than seven letters (save proper nouns and foreign terms). All language within the form speaks to aspects of African-American history and culture. With these forty-nine poems, each chapter of forty-nine lines, Walker offers profound commentary on a wide variety of topics ranging from interrogations of celebrity culture to issues that speak directly to the Black Lives Matter movement. Most of My Heroes Don't Appear on No Stamps offers readers a chance to engage with these subjects in a fresh new way while embracing a vibrant poetic form not often explored."--Back cover.

Ran Walker continues to blur the fine line between microfiction and prose poetry in this new collection of 100-word stories, spanning many different genres.

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.

"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's writer." MAURICE CARLOS RUFFIN, author of The Ones Who Don't Say They Love You and We Cast a Shadow A young boy wrestles with what it means to have long hair. A woman finds herself accepting a relationship she knows is not good for her. A generation of successful graduates places greater value on materialism than love. Aliens and more aliens. Mystery. Intrigue. Love (and love lost). And, yes, Blackness. All in one hundred 100-word stories. In Ran Walker's latest collection of 100-word stories, he leaves few stones unturned as he pushes the limits of the form in engaging, surprising, and even humorous ways. Welcome to The Library of Afro Curiosities.