Gia Volterra De Saulnier

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2020

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“A Bad Penny” by Gia Volterra De Saulnier

Submitted to Contest #98

It wasn’t as if I hadn’t heard all the phrases before. My favorite being if you pick a penny up, you’ll have good luck. Or, a penny for your thoughts. Boy, if I had a penny every time I’d heard that one, I’d have been rich. No, I was never that lucky. Never found. Never picked up. Everyone passed me by without a thought in their minds. Maybe I was too little to understand why folks were going by me. I could only look one way. Down. Did you know that ants will come cross over me when they can? I think one of them tried picking...

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“A way from home” by Gia Volterra De Saulnier

Submitted to Contest #59

A loud horn starts up as I look up to a massive wooden tower above me. A man dressed in gold and bright blue with a hat winks down at me, or is he? I can't tell, maybe it's to the girl in the front of me. I had seen the ad on T.V. of course, and the one on the billboard, but nothing had me prepared for this. I was only in my dark tattered blue jeans and my nicest light blue blouse. My chestnut hair hung in a low ponytail. "Welcome thee to Faireville, have ye been here before lass?" A lovely lady in a green g...

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Author bio

Married, mom of an awesome teenage boy with mild autism. Jazz musician and performer who is now becoming a budding writer who finished my first novel and currently querying.