Releasing on October 15, 2024
Ranging from the mundane to the magical, the humorous to the horrifying, Apollo's Toy Box blends microfiction and prose poetry seamlessly over the course of 300 original pieces and marks a masterful achievement by award-winning author Ran Walker.
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PRAISE FOR RAN WALKER
"Ran Walker is a genius at writing flash fiction." ~ Amy Jones, Editor-In-Chief at Writer's Digest "Thank you, Ran, for picking up the guitar of fiction and fretting together characters of such warmth, depth, and humanity." ~ Tyehimba Jess, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olio and Leadbelly "Walker does an excellent job of pushing the racial envelope, confronting preconceptions and notions while always helping readers see the shifting Black persona." ~ Shonda Buchanan, author of Black Indian and Who's Afraid of Black Indians? "Tender and strange, startling and lyrical, witty and nuanced, Ran Walker's stories lingered in my mind long after I finished reading them." ~ Grant Faulkner, author of The Art of Brevity and All the Comfort Sin Can Provide "I'm amazed that Ran Walker can stuff so much meaning and power into so few words." ~ Rion Amilcar Scott, 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 "Walker's clarity of style and smooth, mellifluous language [...] place him among the cadre of new Black voices budding with fresh, ripe tales of a past and present yet to untold.” ~ Daniel Black, author of Perfect Peace and Twelve Gates to the City |
