Scott Morgan Petry

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2020

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“Sunrise with Eggs Benedict” by Scott Morgan Petry

Submitted to Contest #99

Here I am. Ready. My breakfast is perfect as is my own brew of iced tea. The light grows to illuminate the greenery on the backside of the hills. And then…it’s there. The sunrise over St. Thomas is glorious. An overused word, when describing sunrises, I’m sure. But nonetheless applicable. Glorious. Glorious. Glorious. I mean, like, glory, glory, sock-it-to-ya, beautiful. Especially here and now.After excruciating hours of being seasick on my first ship to the point of upchucking blood, the Navy had me on “the patch” for every underway period...

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“One More Rubicon” by Scott Morgan Petry

Submitted to Contest #98

One More Rubicon“How am I supposed to do this?” He looked down at the mismatched PVC legs and polymer blades where humans had feet. Human. Why didn’t he get a human to do this? They’re so adaptable. They can live anywhere, scale anything and live on near nothing. He sighed, a habit he picked up from watching archival footage of humans. Not many of those around now. But they showed him that he was far from human. He was just a metal framed conglomeration of brittle, sun-scorched plastics, held together with epoxy-coated nylon and steel n...

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Author bio

There's an old saying. "A fool speaks to say something. A wise man speaks when he has something to say." Well, I'm the exception. I'm the fool who has something to say...and you just may enjoy it.