Ran Walker
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"Cotton Candy"
She loved cotton candy, the feel of the sugar tufts brushing against her skin, even the coarseness of the wet pieces that hardened into tiny bricks of sugar. The colors, pink and blue and yellow, all colors and flavors competing for attention on her palate, aroused more than her hunger.
She wondered what it would feel like to wear it, to sleep on it, to have it as hair she could style. She relished this idea until she realized...
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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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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.
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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.
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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...
8) Daykeeper
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Ed Nelson is struggling to recover from the devastating loss of his wife to cancer. As Ed's depression begins to deepen, his older brother steps in to help him make the critical changes necessary to bring him back from the brink. Into this new environment walks Tanya, a woman half his age, who immediately reminds him of his late wife. Ed and Tanya develop an unlikely friendship, but as things quickly evolve into something more intimate, he must now...
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45 Alternate Press
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[2019].
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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...
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45 Alternate Press, LLC
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[2021].
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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 out hope for the unlikeliest of events. When, through a freak occurrence,...