The year is 1997, and Troy Dobbs has just graduated from Ellison-Wright College in Atlanta. For Troy's graduation gift, his Aunt Flo allows him to housesit her Brooklyn Heights brownstone for a month while she travels abroad. For the first week, things are cool and uneventful, but when a beautiful movie star shows up at his front door to return something she borrowed from his aunt, Troy's humdrum vacation is transformed into an adventure that he will never forget. The Illest is a novella with twists and turns that explore the vulnerabilities of getting to really know someone beyond the public facade.

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 confront what it means to be a widower making sense of a life full of new and unexpected complications.

In this sexy follow up to 30 Love: A Novel, Charles "Chucky" Buckner arrives at the wedding of his friends Dizzy and Lailah, but he has no idea of what awaits him. Almost immediately he finds himself connecting with Lailah's best friend, Marcia, a woman who opens him up to the best time of his life. There's only one catch: Marcia is on a temporary hiatus from her boyfriend to see if they have what it takes to get married, and that hiatus will end in two weeks. Undaunted, Chucky is willing to challenge the fifteen years of that relationship against the remaining time he has with her. But only time will tell if his gamble for love will pay off.This ebook also includes two bonus short stories.

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.

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!

Dizzy and Lailah are life-long best friends who, on a whim, make a deal at the age of 20 that if they are both single by the time they turn 30, they will simply marry each other. While Lailah has long since forgotten this promise, Dizzy hasn't. When he proposes and Lailah reluctantly accepts, the road to the altar is anything but easy. In the vein of Love and Basketball and Brown Sugar, Ran Walker brings you the guy's point-of-view in this hilarious romantic comedy about the wonders of an impromptu engagement.

The last gift Gloria's father gave her was a 'StarKat and Friends' parka. That was seven long years ago, and she's now at college during the final years of Earth's collapse. Never having gained closure from her father's sudden death, Gloria finally decides to wear the garment, and falls through to a strange world filled with curious mysteries. Join Gloria on a cozy cosmic adventure through loss, wonder, and anime parkas."GloKat and the Art of Timing" was developed in-house at WorldSpark Studios by Ran Walker, a pioneer of the flash-fiction format. Ran's own style of 100 chapters of 100 words is both a challenge and an inspiration.The colorful, cosmic city of Sparkadia was created by WorldSpark Studios for their gaming ecosystem. The studio's first game is Edenbrawl, where players control characters like GloKat, Max, Snooker, Kana, Hotpaws, and others.Stay tuned for further adventures, games, and more as the Sparkadia Saga...

Chauncey "Cool" Brown has just been named one of Soul Sista magazine's 25 Most Eligible Bachelors and the news couldn't have come at a better time. His business, C&J's Rare Grooves, is struggling to stay afloat, but Soul Sista has a suggestion that could change everything: write a column for their website where he documents his dates with three women selected by their readers. Cool signs on, mainly for the publicity that he believes it will generate for his business, but he quickly learns that he might have bitten off more than he can chew. Now, in addition to trying to save his business, he finds himself facing an even more daunting challenge: opening himself up to the possibility of falling in love.

Praise for 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...