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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

forgelitmag.com

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

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 · 2h

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

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Alison Stine @alisonstine.bsky.social · 10h

Does it ever get less exhausting? Asking for me.

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Jami Attenberg @jamiattenberg.bsky.social · 10h

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 · 11h

Summer finally let go.

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Writers’ HQ @writershq.bsky.social · 16h

Why are we like this tho

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

🧡🧡🧡

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

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

I am a wonderful and terrible influence!

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

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

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

Mine too.

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

Me too.

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

These coneflowers are doing their best.

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

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 · 3d

So awesome

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

"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 · 7d

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 · 7d

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

"We learn to breathe, to talk, to sing in her."

Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social · 7d

Check out my latest Pele micro in Ghost Parachute! Thank you @brettpribble.bsky.social and love the art @damicandrea.bsky.social ❤️

Brett Pribble @brettpribble.bsky.social · 7d

Read "One Day, Pele Decides She Wants to Visit Us" written by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social and illustrated by @damicandrea.bsky.social.

"her lava coursing down our streets into our houses, like liquid gelatin, as we eat our cereal and go to school, swimming through her."

tinyurl.com/y8jmem3w

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

Aw, man. Had I known I would have kept you borrow our digeridoo.

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

I'm struggling mightily with this

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 5d

Disassociation ain’t hittin' like it used to.

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

"I’ve met enough Mary imposters to put me off the project for good, but I go every time..."

So much unknowing.

Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 7d

I have a new short story in the wonderful Terrazzo Editions today called “Maybe Mary” & I’d be thrilled if you give it a read. so grateful to amazing editor Gina Nutt. you can find her interview with me here too www.terrazzoeditions.com/terrazzomag/...

title: Maybe Mary
author: Anna Vangala Jones

a mosaic pattern in blue, tan, and purple

title: Maybe Mary
author: Anna Vangala Jones

a mosaic pattern in blue, tan, and purple

quote from story: “She says she doesn’t want to talk about the disappearance. Anything but that is fine.”

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

It's 4:21 on Day 3 of the shutdown and this drink is 6.2% ABV.

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

Yay, @fbereaud.bsky.social!

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

"Could I *be* wearing any more clothes?" 😄

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