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Megan Savage

@meganloverdesavage.bsky.social
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Writer, Community College Faculty, Fig Companion, Carolyn Moore Writers House Residency, PDX OR Work in The Rumpus, Tahoma Literary Review, Sixth Finch, Portland Review, Subtropics, etc. Called: “Story Witch,” “Pure Light in Human Form”

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Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
More people than you know, unless you know. This is a good thread that breaks silence with action.
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Ann Stapleton BL @annstapleton.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
libraryofshortstories.com
There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
“Today is Mr. Featherstone’s birthday. Today is the anniversary of Tilita’s marriage. Insurance is payable, as are the water, gas, and light bills.”
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 24/01/2024
There is an old Soviet short animated film based on the story, psychedelic af www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LNH...
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"There Will Come Soft Rains" - Budet Laskovyj Dozhd
Story by: Ray BradburyDirector: Nazim TulyakhodzayevRussia - 1987Animated Film based on Ray Bradbury's Sci-Fi novel "The Martian Chronicles", on the short s...
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Adam Rawnsley @arawnsley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
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Michelle DuBarry @dubarrypie.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
One reason the PCC unions are winning the public relations war is that we don't have professional public relations people doing all of our comms. It's just teachers, staff, and students talking about how they are trying to go to school and afford groceries.
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PCCFFAP @pccffap.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Portland! We hope you will join us this weekend to rally and march for PCC workers fighting for fair wages and benefits. ✊💙
Blue flyer with image of a raised fist and logos for PCCFFAP and PCCFCE. 
Strike Ready! Rally & March. Saturday March 7th. 
11:30a.m Sign Making at PCC Climb Center (Optional)
1-1:30pm Rally at Terry Schrunk Plaza
1:30pm march across Hawthorne Bridge (.8 miles)
Wear your union blue. Bring Family and Friends
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Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
My institution, Portland Community College, is in week 3 of a strike after 11 months of bargaining. My colleague friend wrote this powerful essay depicting the financial precarity of our faculty, which is of course a national trend. charlottedr.substack.com/p/behind-the... @pccffap.bsky.social
charlottedr.substack.com
Behind the Picket Line
For instructors on strike, financial precarity is nothing new
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Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I’m having trouble keeping up with life in general, which explains my absence here.
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Howlingatthe Moon @oog.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Just been made aware of Haiti's winter Olympics get-up. That skirt looks warm, has good pockets, and has a massive horse on it. DING DING DING.
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Joshua McElwee @joshmcelwee.org · 25/12/2025
Pope Leo decried conditions for Palestinians in Gaza in his Christmas sermon on Thursday, in an unusually direct appeal during what is normally a solemn, spiritual service on the day Christians across the globe celebrate the birth of Jesus. For @reuters.com:
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In first Christmas sermon, Pope Leo decries conditions for Palestinians in Gaza
Pope Leo decried conditions for Palestinians in Gaza in his Christmas sermon on Thursday, in an unusually direct appeal during what is normally a solemn, spiritual service on the day Christians across...
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Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
A Christmas gift to get my contributor’s copy of Switchyard, fittingly themed THE END. My story “The Long Desired Child” appears inside, with dazzling illustrations by Clay Rodery. This piece is one of a few in my current collection engaged w/ childless grief. www.switchyardmag.com/issue-5/desi...
A smiling dark haired woman in hoop earrings holds a copy of Switchyard Literary Magazine.
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Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Yes!
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Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Highlighting these attributes we are looking for in applicants for the Portland Community College FT position in Reading, Writing, & English who will mostly teach 1Y Composition. See full post.
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Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
I have been asked to share this FT opening at PCC. Please pass along to anyone who would be a good fit. (More in replies). Portland Community College seeks applicants for a full-time tenure-track position in our Reading, Writing, and English Program. Here's the official posting:
portlandcc.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com
Instructor, Reading, Writing, and English (FT)
Join our Team at Portland Community College Portland Community College is the largest post-secondary institution in Oregon and 19th largest in the nation, serving approximately 80,000 full- and part-t...
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Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
I’m really pretty tired of getting sick the minute I turn my grades in, every fall, like clockwork. Kvetch.
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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
what I love about Kobayashi Issa's haikus is how they're full of play as much as levity, in fact the play and levity are inextricable from each other. as a result, even in a tiny form, nothing feels like it's only one note, and across many haikus, nothing is iterative.
Even among insects, in this world,
Some are good at singing,
Some bad.
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Rachel Abbey McCafferty @ramccafferty.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
This quote from George Saunders just immediately became part of how I view writing and the world: “I started to understand writing as a kind of sacrament, by which we remind ourselves that the person we happen to be, at this moment, through habit, is not the limit of who we might become.”
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Do I know any LGBTQ+ folks who work (or have worked) in higher education who would be willing to offer some Indiana youth (who also identify as LGBTQ+) tips and resources for returning to non-affirming homes over holiday breaks? DM me! Or email me at Ashley dot Ford at Free Press Indiana dot org :)
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Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Fig walked me to the pet store and put up with this sparkly antler photo-op, just to make you smile. Are you happy, now?
Small white dog with pink nose wearing gold sparkly antlers. She looks directly at you.
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Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Someone make this happen.
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Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
On Thanksgiving Eve, I found out my poetry manuscript THE ANIMAL INSIDE MY BODY was longlisted in the @yesyesbooks.bsky.social 2025 poetry open reading — much to be thankful for! YesYes is a dream press. Cross your fingers for me.
2025 YYB poetry longlist
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Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
My kettlebell coach keeps wigging me out by playing Toad the Wet Sprocket during mobility classes. That is all I have to say shout that.
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Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
One of my students called Freytag’s triangle/the plot checkmark “the allen wrench” and I have never been so delighted.
allen wrench
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Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Glad to get recognition on this deeply weird, deeply intimate, and artistically important-to-me story, which is in the collection I’m working to place. Thanks to American Short Fiction (and congratulations to the winners).
Dear Megan Savage,


Thank you for submitting "St. Bernadette at the Strip Club" to The Halifax Ranch Fiction Prize. While your submission did not make the final short list, it was selected for a list of contest semi-finalists. Your work stood out as one of our strongest submissions, and we hope you will submit to us again.
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Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Kind personal rejection from a dream publication (after a year hanging onto the piece) and long-listed for a prize at another dream pub (same piece). O the bittersweet nature of almost!
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Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
The naked avarice and oligarchic bent of eliminating federal e-file in the midst of this. (Adding to the “there is much to be disturbed about in the continued collapse but this one got my goat today” list).
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Go get ‘em, EB White’s granddaughter. 🫶🏾📚 #dhs
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Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Heartbroken/furious at the detention (& possible deportation to Vietnam) of the Happy Sparrow owner. I wrote the obituary for my sister-friend at their cafe, over kolachkes, deep in grief and feeling cared for. gofundme in the comments — donate for legal fees and possible family resettlement.
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Longtime Lake Oswego business owner detained by ICE, faces deportation to Vietnam  - The Portland Tribune
The Quachs lived the American dream until it became a nightmare. After the fall of Saigon, Danny and Mary Quach’s families separately immigrated to the United States and the two eventually met in Hous...
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Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
My story “Silent as a Fish” was chosen to open 34 Orchard Issue #12. A mashup of history & fable, the story remixes the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire with Grimms’ The Six Swans, in which a woman is bound to silence and threatened by fire, but holds steadfast to rescue her brothers. 34orchard.com
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34 Orchard
A literary journal that takes you dark places.
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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Being a poet is the most complete and insane inversion of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 05/11/2025
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
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Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
“At tonight’s Portland City Council meeting, a representative from the letter carriers union said mail carriers will report ICE and DHS when they see them in neighborhoods. ‘Mail carriers are on every street every day, so we’re a big set of eyes and ears.’” (video in source)
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Portland mail carriers union says they will report ICE sightings
“At tonight’s Portland City Council meeting, a representative from the letter carriers union said mail carriers will report ICE and DHS when they see them in neighborhoods. “Mail carriers are…
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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
No more Black or trans staffers. No politics of any kind. The cowardice of mainstream media isn't just insulting, it's *boring.* Now TV is just like any other beauty rag. Why not just kill it quickly? Why the slow-motion pretense?
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Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Well, fuck.
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Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
This this this.
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Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
One of the smaller, accessible PDX rallies had 5k people and this amazing sign. #nokings
Skeleton frog costumed protester holding frog sign that reads “Amphifa”
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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
with alt-text.
Sara Whitmer
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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into Fscist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.
Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.
Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.
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Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
More scenes from the Portland war zone. (Neighborhood house, not mine).
Skeletons climb a house with a dog skeleton pulling at the leg of one, while a roof skeleton looks down.
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Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
This is what I’m aiming for when I step on conversational toes, cooperative overlap. But since I live in Portland instead of the Northeast, it usually means I’m apologizing after the fact.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 05/10/2025
Portland never stops being Portland.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 04/10/2025
If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.
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Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
My husband “The Spanish could sing about municipal water policy and it would make you want to start a revolution — and then fuck.”
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 28/09/2025
NEW: Despite Trump's appearing to waver on sending troops into Portland, Pete Hegseth issued this memo today purporting to federalize 200 members of the Oregon National Guard. This is an exhibit in Oregon's just-filed lawsuit challenging the deployment. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71481...
SEP 2 8 2025
MEMORANDUM FOR THE ADJUTANT GENERAL, OREGON NATIONAL GUARD THROUGH: THE GOVERNOR OF OREGON
SUBJECT: Calling Members of the Oregon National Guard into Federal Service
On June 7, 2025, the President of the United States called forth at least 2,000 National Guard personnel into Federal service pursuant to section 12406 of title 10, U.S. Code, to protect U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other U.S. Government personnel who are performing Federal functions, including the enforcement of Federal law, and to protect Federal property, at locations where protests against these functions are occurring or are likely to occur based on current threat assessments and planned operations. The President signed a copy of the attached memorandum to effectuate the calling forth of these Service members.
This memorandum further implements the President's direction. 200 members of the Oregon National Guard will be called into Federal service effective immediately for a period of 60 days. The Chief of the National Guard Bureau will immediately coordinate the details of the mobilization with you, in coordination with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Commander, U.S. Northern Command. The mobilized Service members will be under the command and control of the Commander, U.S. Northern Command.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 27/09/2025
There are credible reports that federal agents may be replaying the 2020 playbook and surging into Portland with the goal of provoking conflict and violence in my hometown. I am in close contact with state and local officials to monitor this activity.
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 26/09/2025
Morning walk
Wheat paste poster that says the all the world is dying and the new world struggles to be born now is the time of monsters. There's a picture of Elmo
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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
too many people think the answer to "I've written something, what now" is getting published when really the answer is cleaning your room, making a roast, refilling the bird feeder. writing is also the living we do. it's not a way to get recognition in the same way that flossing isn't.
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Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Thrilled to announce our fifth cohort of writers, the 2025-2026 Carolyn Moore Writers House Residents. 🧵 @cmwritershouse.bsky.social Margaret Juhae Lee, Julia Gaskill, Dominica Phetteplace, Zelmira Stevens Vindas, Mahogany Browne, Adam Falkner, Gabriela Denise Frank…
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Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
My poem “September 11 and September 11,” published in The Pointed Circle. Feeling this today.
September 11 and September 11

Then
I saw a raccoon bright-eyed in the darkness, dragging a rag across Burnside, in the neon of downtown, a feral, darkling interloper, the rag a misshapen tail; it was both more and less than animal, both less and more than human. I drank tea without sugar or milk, for the bitterness. Even just to write this brings tears to my eyes, and I don’t know why. You were young enough then to learn a world with villains in it, unlike I, who grew up waiting for it. 

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I want to open my windows, but all I can see are billions of dollars spent on Swarovski crystal crosses, wooden iPads, yoga pants. A man decapitated himself by tying a cable around his neck and driving a car away, a man threw his son in the water off a boat, a woman threw her family off a hospital parking garage, a man poisoned his disabled child. Did the boat weep? Did the cable weep? Did the parking garage weep? And you, in your body, sculpted like a golden bird, spinning your visions into muscles, you who cross borders like a knife through butter, how can you carve these spaces for your body without wearing blood on your hands?
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Megan Savage @meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I bought Fig this sparkly rainbow tank as a souvenir when I was in Provincetown last week. She now refuses to take it off (which she has never done with an item of clothing). Maybe this is something you needed to see today? For no reason whatsoever?
Small white dog in a rainbow striped tank top sitting in a park.
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