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Megan @ Sugar Pig

@sugarpigblog.bsky.social

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Mother, sometime writer, mediocre flute player, misplaced Texan. Words in more than a dozen literary magazines and counting.

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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · Nov 7

"Tori Amos and I live in a foster house off of Texas Highway 321. It’s temporary in the sense that we don’t matter."

This piece is a triumph - that I wrote it, that I published it, that I survived it.

Unending thanks to @theforge.bsky.social for choosing it.

Please give it a read.

The Forge Literary Magazine @theforge.bsky.social · Nov 4

Our nonfiction story of the week is Tori and Me by Megan Hanlon @sugarpigblog.bsky.social
forgelitmag.com/2024/11/04/t...

Tori and Me - The Forge Literary Magazine

Tori and Me, creative nonfiction by Megan Hanlon

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Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 12h

ChatGPT is so efficient at further isolating us. It promises to eliminate any and all need for genuine human interaction. Outsourcing human connection.

We are social creatures. Alone, we are vulnerable, practically helpless. Easy pickings for those powerful forces that would exploit us.

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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 1d

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 2d

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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 2d

A story about birds, and also not.

Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 3d

"Yesterday, my daughter found a robin beneath the slide, stiff in its mortality."

A tiny story from the archives at Hearth and Coffin.

www.hearthandcoffin.com/post/circle-...

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 2d

STORY: ORANGE MAN LIE AGAIN

OLD WAY: “CRITICS SAY STATEMENT MAY BE MISLEADING.”

ANIMAL WAY: HIT KICK DRUM, YELL “LIE!” HIT TAMBOURINE, WHISPER “but other side lie too” IN SOFTEST MIKE JOHNSON VOICE.

“AAAGGGHHH!!!” A Memo from Animal, Your New Editor-in-Chief

“[Editor-in-chief of CBS News] Bari Weiss told network staffers in a morning editorial call that she wants to ‘win’ before delivering a rallying cr...

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WholesomeMemes @wholesomememe.bsky.social · 2d

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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 3d

"Yesterday, my daughter found a robin beneath the slide, stiff in its mortality."

A tiny story from the archives at Hearth and Coffin.

www.hearthandcoffin.com/post/circle-...

Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 3d

Moody as the sky

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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 3d

Interesting. I grew up in Liberty County, about 45 min NE, and always heard the H in Houston.

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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 4d

Gotta pronounce the H.
Unless you're going to Humble.

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Alison Stine @alisonstine.bsky.social · 4d

Does it ever get less exhausting? Asking for me.

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Jami Attenberg @jamiattenberg.bsky.social · 4d

sometimes I just go through and unsubscribe to a bunch of things at once just to feel a little in control of my life again

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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 4d

Summer finally let go.

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Writers’ HQ @writershq.bsky.social · 4d

Why are we like this tho

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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 5d

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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 5d

Fan-freaking-tastic: 4/4 beta readers loved my memoir, with comments like "top level writing" "stunning and candid" "searing, sharp and gorgeous" and "needs to be out in the world." 🤩

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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 6d

This is where my afternoon has descended to. I blame it on
@sugarpigblog.bsky.social. Introducing the IMPOSTROPHE, a punctuation mark for all the writers out there who need a way of representing their impostor syndrome on the page...

A comma with two "perspiration" marks and a question mark sparking out from the dot

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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 6d

I am a wonderful and terrible influence!

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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 6d

From the #quote book this week: "I remember we all cried like the Missouri." -e.e. cummings

Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 7d

Mine too.

Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 7d

Me too.

Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 7d

These coneflowers are doing their best.

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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 7d

a cartoon of two teddy bears hugging each other

ALT: a cartoon of two teddy bears hugging each other

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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 7d

So awesome

Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 8d

"Cleo called them crutches, all those habits developed to survive the emotional luggage they all dragged along—baggage so heavy, it felt like they were swimming with rocks in their pockets at times."

Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos @delgeo14.bsky.social · 11d

It's such an honor to be on this list of contributors. Happy Nine Year Anniversary to the wonderful Ghost Parachute. Thank you @brettpribble.bsky.social and the whole team. ❤️

Brett Pribble @brettpribble.bsky.social · 11d

We are excited to present the October 2025 issue, which is our Nine Year Anniversary issue. We've put out an issue every month on the first since we started, making this our 108th issue. Cover illustrated by @genevievetyrrell.bsky.social.

tinyurl.com/mtcaexjy

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