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Megan @ Sugar Pig

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

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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 7h
"While we appreciate the plight of your little dog when faced with the absence of bones in your cupboard, this was not really the motivation we were looking for." I love a satiric take on nursery rhymes.
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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 9h
From the #quote book this week: "Quiet power is like light. Light doesn't make a lot of noise. It just shines and shines and makes seeds grow."
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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 20h
I've been looking at the skeleton yard decorations everyone is putting up and I fear we as a society have a deep misunderstanding of most vertebrates and some invertebrates.
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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There is power in sharing our stories.
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Nicole Brogdon @nbrogdonwrites.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Here’s one for my little sister! Thank you, cool women editors @ Literary Namjooning lit magazine! A relaxing treat to read the issue . literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
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Space Sisters by Nicole Brogdon
Let’s pretend I never broke your arm—though it was an accident—when you were little, oneof those days we climbed up the pitched chicken coop and I lay down against sticky asphaltshingles under the bak...
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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Remember cutting paper chains with scissors, making simple people who held hands when you unfurled the paper fan. Could you create a string of people now?" So full of visceral imagery.
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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"I always believed we could find somewhere safe to hide. The real world wouldn’t find us."
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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"This sounds like asshole behavior, but it’s really just dirtbag behavior. There’s a difference. It’s subtle but it’s there."
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 02/10/2026
A painting of a bird beside the text "how the fuck did we get here"
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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There is power in sharing our stories.
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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is what I do best: keep going by default.
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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"before I pushed you off of me with a shriek of stop; before you yanked on the button of my jeans; before tried to slide your palms under my sweater" Sharing again, in light of Cornell. From @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/fourteen-by-...
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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"before I pushed you off of me with a shriek of stop; before you yanked on the button of my jeans; before tried to slide your palms under my sweater" Sharing again, in light of Cornell. From @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/fourteen-by-...
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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Art, literature and music are ways we express our human experience. Generative AI has nothing to say. Its remixed slop can only ever be, to quote Shakespeare, “a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
From the #quote book this week: "I am enough, even unchosen even undone. even in the in-between."
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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
From the #quote book this week: "I am enough, even unchosen even undone. even in the in-between."
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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I said I'd do something special when I hit 100. Behold the "Dirty Pretzel" sundae.
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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I DID IT! I MADE IT TO *100* AGENT DECLINES/NO RESPONSES! WOOOOHOOOO TIME TO PARTY AND/OR SOB
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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"so my bones are not cobwebs"
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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In the age of computers, be a human.
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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just 18 easy steps! "16. Bang head repeatedly on kitchen table."
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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Joke's on you...the job I recently applied to never contacted me for an interview.
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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just 18 easy steps! "16. Bang head repeatedly on kitchen table."
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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
!!! Wordle 1,924 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Scowl. Google distance from Victory Park to Root Road fields: 2.5 miles, 7 minutes drive time. Google distance from Root Road park to school again, just to see if it has changed." I wrote about the busyness of this season of parenting. sugar-pig.blogspot.com/2026/09/how-...
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How to Be in Three Places at Once
Mirth, melancholy and misadventures.
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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"You are guaranteed compensation if you took the purity pledge along with everyone else just so you could hold the new kid’s hand in the promise circle"
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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Fall temps arrived like a smack in the face. We did not go gentle into that good season.
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The Pride Roars @theprideroars.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"She held court, delivering honeyed words of praise that had Beatrice hungry for more." Read "A Ballet Queen's Hunger" by @ninamiller.bsky.social in The Pride Roars today! theprideroars.blogspot.com/2026/09/a-ba...
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A Ballet Queen's Hunger / Nina Miller
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Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Absolutely thrilled that my debut book, a flash fiction collection, @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social is out Oct. 13. Kindle preorders now on Amazon. Printed text available 10/13. Remote launch SAT 11/14, 10:00 am PT. Details soon. Heartfelt thanks @vanwinkle.bsky.social. #flashfiction
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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
From the #quote book today: "There are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life." -Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Here I sit, staring out the window at the day as it goes by, at the snow falling purposefully and the fragile birds sorting through seeds at the feeder, waiting for what I want to become clear. "
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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Here I sit, staring out the window at the day as it goes by, at the snow falling purposefully and the fragile birds sorting through seeds at the feeder, waiting for what I want to become clear. "
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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I did not win the 2026 Ploughshares Emerging Writers Contest in nonfiction. But I was a top 10 finalist, and that's not nothing. #amwriting #soclose
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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I did not win the 2026 Ploughshares Emerging Writers Contest in nonfiction. But I was a top 10 finalist, and that's not nothing. #amwriting #soclose
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Broken Hearts Gallery Literary @brokenheartslit.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We've got a broken heart poem this week from Chris Lihou. Read it, and weep. Our inbox is empty so please, please sent some heart ache our way. It's fall, the perfect season for some sadness. brokenheartsliterary.com/2026-heartbr...
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2026 Heartbreaks
The Girl Who Gave Herself Away by Chris Lihou So youngso beautifulso pregnant. From the starter’s gunShe’d never lead trailingbehind childrenbehind him. Promotionsmeantpacking boxes. Pay risesmeant…
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Melissa Flores Anderson @melissacuisine.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Everyone must be happy these days because our @brokenheartslit.bsky.social submissions inbox is empty. Send us some fall heartache! One micro or poem up to 50 words and an image that represents your heart break. This week's poem from Chris Lihou: brokenheartsliterary.com/2026-heartbr...
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2026 Heartbreaks
The Girl Who Gave Herself Away by Chris Lihou So youngso beautifulso pregnant. From the starter’s gunShe’d never lead trailingbehind childrenbehind him. Promotionsmeantpacking boxes. Pay risesmeant…
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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"How reassuring it must be to know exactly who you are—dog, excitable, hungry, playful, occasionally obedient—with one true purpose: to love and be loved." Trying to be more like my dog in this story from the archives at @theprideroars.bsky.social theprideroars.blogspot.com/2026/02/sit-...
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Sit / by Megan Hanlon
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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I admire the audacity of this solitary sunflower growing in somebody's front lawn.
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Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos @delgeo14.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Issue 10 / Submission Call 1st of January 2027 Prose & Poetry / Art & Hybrids Guidelines: rawlit.weebly.com/submissions....
Issue 10 / Submission call 
1st of January 2027
Prose & Poetry / Art & Hybrids

​Optional theme:
Struggle

​Optional prompt:
"Man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself."
​                                                                        ― Jean-Paul Sartre
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Kakistocracy of TERROR! 💀 @crankypacifist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Edit: She's a 10, *and* she corrects people's grammar.
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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Today I tried to get on the treadmill without shoes on, and that's how my whole week has been.
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Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Another brilliant writer has gone.
Annie Dillard quote against water: How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"You will want this, one day. They don’t say, when you’re normal, or when you’re a woman, or when you’re better. Not really. But I hear it." A heartfelt rollercoaster. www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/09/smal...
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Small Eulogies by Liz Abeling | Hippocampus Magazine
"Late is not an alarm but a whisper, a tickle, a background drip." -- from the flash CNF piece Small Eulogies by Liz Abeling.
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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
From the #quote book today: "Blessed are the pouring." -John Roedel @johnroedel.bsky.social
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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"we stayed there six weeks one small room four of us two beds zero jobs" ICYMI, read the micro essay recently nominated by @theprideroars.bsky.social for Best of the Net. Read it here: theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/09/libe...
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Liberty, TX, Travelodge / Megan Hanlon
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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
From the #quote book today: "Blessed are the pouring." -John Roedel @johnroedel.bsky.social
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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I'm proud to be a founding contributor to The Pride Roars, and honored that they nominated this tiny piece of my childhood. It gives me hope and others want to hear my story.
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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
2 days. 8 classes. 1 new friend. Hundreds of new words. @literarycleveland.bsky.social
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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I'm proud to be a founding contributor to The Pride Roars, and honored that they nominated this tiny piece of my childhood. It gives me hope and others want to hear my story.
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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"we stayed there six weeks one small room four of us two beds zero jobs" ICYMI, read the micro essay recently nominated by @theprideroars.bsky.social for Best of the Net. Read it here: theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/09/libe...
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Liberty, TX, Travelodge / Megan Hanlon
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