Short Story Press Presents Front Page Kiss

by Eve Gaal

Viola Timmons is mesmerized by the large, red-haired city editor who always calls her by her last name. He’s so absorbed in his work he has no time to notice her at all. When a lie slips from her mouth she realizes that perhaps she’s desperate and obviously in love. She forms a plan and courageously insists that he take her to the mayor’s luncheon where she blatantly reveals her feelings. Meanwhile, her amateur photographer friend is supposed to help out and take a photo of the mayor, but the deadline is nearing and there won’t be time to check for mistakes. Hopefully her friend Laura will snap the perfect shot and she won’t be an amateur for long. More importantly, if Viola can get the city editor to use her first name, then she’ll know he likes her too. Find out if the lies catch up to Viola after deadline and if a kiss makes all the difference. Short Story Press publishes short stories written by everyday writers.

38 pages, Hardcover

Published May 1, 2020

About the author

Eve’s writing began with a toy typewriter she received at age four. Much later, she wrote poems for school publications and work related newsletters until landing a job writing ad copy and selling advertising space for major metropolitan, and community newspapers. Her first novel Penniless Hearts, is part adventure, part romance, and a gentle reminder to communicate. Eve has published poems, fiction stories and non-fiction, in various anthologies, some of which are: Anything Prose and Poetry Too, Open Doors-Fractured Fairy Tales, and Not Your Mother’s Book on Dogs and Travel. She followed up Penniless Hearts with Penniless Souls, also a travel adventure but set in the Nevada desert. A short faith-based novella titled, The Fifth Commandment came later, and most recently, The Happy War, which is also a romantic travel adventure. When not writing, she likes swimming, reading and walking her Italian Greyhound mix.