The Library of Afro Curiosities: 100-Word Stories

by Ran Walker

Overview

"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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781020001338
Publisher:	45 Alternate Press, LLC
Publication date:	04/12/2022
Pages:	122
Product dimensions:	4.20(w) x 6.50(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Ran Walker (he/him) is the author of twenty-five books. His short stories, flash fiction, microfiction, and poetry have appeared in a variety of anthologies and journals. Prior to becoming a writer and educator, he worked in magazine publishing and practiced law in Mississippi.He is the winner of the Indie Author Project's 2019 National Indie Author of the Year Award (selected by judges from Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, IngramSpark, St. Martin's Press, and Writer's Digest), the 2019 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Best Fiction Ebook Award, the 2018 Virginia Indie Author Project Award for Adult Fiction, and the 2021 Blind Corner Afrofuturism Microfiction Contest. Ran is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Hampton University and teaches with Writer's Digest University. He lives in Virginia with his wife and much better half, Lauren, and his amazing galaxy princess daughter, Zoë.