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Joseph 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 the next day. When she returns, she's ready for more. Joseph obsessed over her for nine months. Is it too late? In Part II of this literary fiction psychological suspense novel, the author captures what it was like to be an ex-pat in Prague in the late 1990s. The magical former Communist satellite is a playground for men with low self-esteem. Follow along as Joseph bridges his way from a broken past into a future flooded with love, dipped in reconnection and spiced with romance, charm and faith.

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Spicy, witty, charming and surprisingly hilarious. Unrelenting entertainment. Rabia Tanveer 5-star review Its deep psychological inspection of romance, ideals, and realities provides a powerful story that eventually comes full circle back to Joseph's strongest connections as he rejects the past, only to find it intrinsically wound into his future. - D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review [Pryll] masterfully details Joseph's self-awareness; his deeply intuitive and discerning view of his environment and interpersonal relationships. A brilliant writer! - Dr. Sabrina Brown, author of He Married a Sociopath Impossible to put the book down. Pryll's prose balances on the brink of poetic. - Asher Syed, 5-star review Pryll crafts a highly immersive atmosphere with a myriad of emotions, mixing sublime and surreal themes with realistic and relatable social issues to create a kind of accessible space in between that we as readers can escape to. - K.C. Finn, 5-star review If you enjoy literary fiction, ironic wit and realism delivered with a heaping spoonful of European culture, you will love this one. - Bibiana Krall, Goodreads 5-star review

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Rick Pryll is an award-winning author and poet living in Charlotte, North Carolina since 2002. The recipient of 2nd place in the 2022 Ruth Moose Flash Fiction Awards, his latest book, La Chimere of Prague (Foolishness Press, 2020) shot up to #1 in the Psychological Literary subcategory on Amazon.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.From 1996 to 2002 Rick lived in Prague. While there he published two books including Displaced (Foolishness Press, 1998) and Wallow (Foolishness Press, 1999). His stories and poems have been featured on the pages of Think, Optimism, Ekleksographia, Prometheus Dreaming, and The Esthetic Apostle.Rick attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned a degree in Mechanical Engineering by submitting a novella as his thesis. In 1991, he won MIT's Robert A. Boit Prize for Best Short Story.Rick was born on the shores of Lake Erie. From the age of three, he grew up in Batavia, New York and graduated from Pembroke Central High School.During the day, he works as a Data and Analytics expert in the Financial Services industry. He lives with his wife, 2018 ArtPop Charlotte artist, Holly Spruck HMCAS, his two kids, two cats and a puppy.

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