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displaced
First published in 1998, displaced is a collection of 11 poems that capture Rick Pryll's experience on a journey from the East Village in New York City to Prague, in the Czech Republic, back to New York, then to Chicago and San Francisco and back to Prague. In these poems you find a story about a young man trying to find his place in the world, and his thoughts about love, money, home and life.
From the back cover of the print version:
You are on the run. You came to Prague to get away from money, from America, from your ex. From yourself. But now you are back. Just for a visit. At least that's what you say. And then they offer you a job. You take it, and it takes you. To Chicago, to New York, to San Francisco where your ex has built a new life for herself. And it don't include you. You are in a hotel. You have fifty zillion channels of oblivion, you have fifty zillion fast food places on DRIVE THRU, you have fifty zillion hours of dark jet lag hours between punch-clocks. What do you do? DISPLACED is what Rick Pryll did. In so many words.
You can never go home. Or can you?
From the back cover of the print version:
You are on the run. You came to Prague to get away from money, from America, from your ex. From yourself. But now you are back. Just for a visit. At least that's what you say. And then they offer you a job. You take it, and it takes you. To Chicago, to New York, to San Francisco where your ex has built a new life for herself. And it don't include you. You are in a hotel. You have fifty zillion channels of oblivion, you have fifty zillion fast food places on DRIVE THRU, you have fifty zillion hours of dark jet lag hours between punch-clocks. What do you do? DISPLACED is what Rick Pryll did. In so many words.
You can never go home. Or can you?
23 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 11, 2014
About the author
Rick Pryll
9 books14 followersRick 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.
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.
He lives with his wife, 2018 ArtPop Charlotte artist, Holly Spruck HMCAS, his two kids, two cats and a puppy.
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.
He lives with his wife, 2018 ArtPop Charlotte artist, Holly Spruck HMCAS, his two kids, two cats and a puppy.
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