The library of afro curiosities: 100-word stories - 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'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.

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