"Rick Pryll weaves romance and the search for life's answers with a thoughtful touch." --Tracy Sumner, National Reader's Choice Award winnerChristmas in Prague is a novella from award-winning author, Rick Pryll. Taken from the upcoming novel, Part II of THE CHIMERA OF PRAGUE, set to release in April 2019, this is the story of Joseph, a divorced American twenty-something living as an expat in Prague. He's obsessed with Karina, a Czech waitress-turned-supermodel. She...

Introducing: Sensational Writers + Holiday RecipesA Festive Collaboration of Storytelling and Culinary DelightNow Available – Optimized for viewing on color tablets and large screens.Join us in celebrating the holiday season with Sensational Writers + Holiday Recipes, a heartwarming and delicious collaboration featuring personal stories, short essays, and cherished holiday recipes from a vibrant com...

"Spicy, witty, charming and surprisingly hilarious. Unrelenting entertainment." -- Rabia Tanveer, Readers' Favorite 5-star reviewJoseph is haunted. His mermaid bi-sexual girlfriend died under mysterious circumstances. Naked Pete may have the answers, if he would pick up his phone. Joseph doesn't pay for sex; the price is more than he or his friend with benefits could have bargained for. Waitress-turned-supermodel Karina stays over, only to run off to Italy with her English tutor th...

NOT-PROM is a vignette included in the upcoming novel called "The Chimera of Prague". The big book is about a young man living as an expatriate in Prague, and trying to figure his life out. In the vignettes, he is digging into his past life in Western New York to try and understand his first love, a relationship with a woman named Dani. In NOT-PROM, Joseph and Dani decide to skip her prom to go on an adult dinner date instead. Dani has a surprise for Joseph - and he's not going to like it....

Cross Country is a vignette from the story-within-in-a-story in the novel "The Chimera of Prague". In this story, Dani comes to Joseph's final race at the McQuaid invitational, one of his biggest races of the year. His father is the coach, and Joseph is the captain of the team, yet it is going to be Daniu who steals the show. The story is set in Rochester, New York.The story features a turning point in the relationship between Joseph and Dani. She's not willing to be the butt of Jo...

WARNING: this story is intended for mature audiences, and includes sexually explicit language and situations.The Ride is a vignette from the story-within-in-a-story in upcoming novel "The Chimera of Prague". In this story, Joseph and his brother Sam ride their bikes thirty miles to spend the 4th of July with Dani, Charlie and their family in Union Corners, New York. Despite the treacherous descent into the Oatka Valley, the boys arrive safely and enjoy the festivities in the park b...

WINNER, 2018 New York Book Festival for Romance."Pryll captures all the international sexual tension and possibility that was 1990s Prague." - Bonnie Ditlevsen, editor, Penduline PressDivorced expat, Joseph, takes a gap year in the late nineties, womanizing Prague with a vengeance. He obsesses over one elusive girl, and tires of the parade of women he assimilates into his sad life, His soulmate is out there. In fact, he may have already met her."Chimera" features a ...

In this suspenseful, provocative novel of friendship, secrets, and deceit, a successful writer returns to her elite Swiss boarding school to get to the bottom of a tragic accident that took place while she was a student twenty years earlier.How far would you go to uncover the truth?One spring night in 1998 the beautiful Cressida Strauss plunges from a fourth-floor balcony at the Lycée Internationale Suisse with catastrophic consequences. Loath to draw negati...

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Seen Reading is the exciting debut collection of microfictions from Canada’s pre-eminent literary voyeur, Julie Wilson. Based on the beloved online movement of the same name, Seen Reading collects more than a hundred stories inspired by sightings of people reading on Toronto transit, each reader re-invented in a poetic piece of short fiction. Tender, poignant, and fun, Seen Reading offers readers an inspired fictional map while charting an urban centre’s cultural...

"A fascinating premise lifts this excellent anthology compiled by Thriller Award winner Ellison ... This volume not only provides great pleasure but also offers readers the opportunity to sample the work of first-class writers who may be new to them."—Publishers Weekly, starred review"...[a] powerful, moving and fascinating anthology featuring 16 multitalented authors... A decade in the making, A Thousand Doors is worth the wait."