Short Story Press Presents Kidnapped Writer

by Eve Gaal

Kidnapped Writer is about our melting pot here in America. The main character is Viola and she's having a horrible day. In fact, it is absolutely the worst day of her life. After years at her newspaper job as a writer, they've cut back on everything and put her into the advertising department.

On her way out of town for the weekend, she gets kidnapped by a strange family needing her help. Outraged, Viola finds herself held captive by a very old woman in a dingy Italian restaurant. As the grandmother reveals the startling story about her family, Viola quickly forgets her own troubles.

The dilemma is that things have changed and even if she wanted to help, it might not be possible. Sympathizing with her kidnappers doesn't exactly solve her problems. Or does it?

Short Story Press publishes short stories written by everyday writers.

36 pages, Hardcover

First published August 9, 2012

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.