Cross Country

by Rick Pryll

Overview

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 Joseph's jokes anymore; is it an opportunity for them to become closer, or a sign of things to come?

Product Details

BN ID:	2940156212439
Publisher:	Foolishness Press
Publication date:	01/28/2019
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	441 KB

About the Author

Rick Pryll is an award-winning author and poet living in Charlotte since 2002. His book, The Chimera of Prague (Foolishness Press, 2017) was selected the winner of the 2018 New York Festival of Books in the Romance category.

Rick is a member of CharlotteLit and the Charlotte Writer’s Club. Most recently, Rick hosted a book marketing session called “Beyond the Book: engaging readers, creating super fans” as a part of the Author Talks series at CharlotteLit.

In support of his latest book, Rick held launch events in Charlotte and in Prague, the Czech Republic. Since November 2017, he has been invited to participate in author events in Kentucky, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania, and is actively seeking additional opportunities to speak and promote his book internationally and domestically.

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 and OPTIMISM.

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 in Dunkirk, New York 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, Edie (13 years old) and Jack (11 years old), two cats and a puppy.