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Rick Pryll

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Rick Pryll is an award-winning author and poet living in Charlotte since 2002. Most recently, he won 2nd place in the 2022 Ruth Moose Flash Fiction Awards. His latest novel, La Chimere of Prague (Foolishness Press, 2020), ranked as high as #1 on Amazon in the Psychological Literary category.

His previous book, The Chimera of Prague (Foolishness Press, 2017) was selected as the winner of the 2018 New York Festival of Books in the Romance category.

First published to the web in 1994, his hyperfiction short story “LIES� has garnered praise from the Wall Street Journal, SHIFT magazine, and several other publications in print and online. It is cited in more than seven books and has been translated into Spanish and Chinese.

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The Drive-by Book Launch

Here's the story behind the drive-by book launch party we through for La Chimère of Prague back in 2020...



There was a pandemic.



I unexpectedly underwent surgery for a torn retina in my left eye in November.



For one week after the surgery, I had to spend 23 hours a day lying face down. As a part of my recovery.



Holly rented me one of those massage chairs you see at the airport. You can just picture it

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“Close your eyes. Watch me. Watch my voice. I am a bird. A white bird. Burning. Right in front of you. See my eyes?”
Rick Pryll, Wallow: stories, rumors and other theatrics

“Such a beautiful place at night. This is Prague.”
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“I don't need a crystal ball to see into the future, although they are quite beautiful.”
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“It’s romantic: two expats in a car full of paintings making their way across an ancient city. One heartbroken, strike that, both in varying states of brokenheartedness. Aren’t we all?”
Rick Pryll, La Chimère of Prague: Part II

“[Neruda’s] work captures the everyday life of regular people in the Little Quarter. Completely changed but unchanged, its cobble and brick outlines, the colorful contents whirling in a time-lapse blur.”
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“A house, however humble, is a habitat. It has a direct impact on its occupants. [...] It soaks up the light as the sun passes over it; it absorbs the night, with or without the moon.”
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“In creating a database, I structure information to be stored. I create order in the universe. I reduce entropy. I keep chaos at bay.”
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“Let's not fall in love. Let's follow the delicate threads in ourselves to find out where they lead.”
Rick Pryll, The Chimera of Prague

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