Megan @ Sugar Pig
@sugarpigblog.bsky.social
Mother, sometime writer, mediocre flute player, misplaced Texan. Words in more than two dozen literary magazines and counting.
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Our nonfiction story of the week is Tori and Me by Megan Hanlon @sugarpigblog.bsky.social
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Tori and Me - The Forge Literary Magazine
Tori and Me, creative nonfiction by Megan Hanlon
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"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.
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.
I was really hoping I'd get a query response over Thanksgiving from some agents waiting idly in an airport or hiding from family overwhelm in a bathroom. No luck.
November 30, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I was really hoping I'd get a query response over Thanksgiving from some agents waiting idly in an airport or hiding from family overwhelm in a bathroom. No luck.
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"Then the body is in a silent coast down a hill into the long stretch of river bottom, that flood plain between small towns where nothing thrives, in a station wagon that's tired of carrying on."
"The body remembers the side of the road, night the color of swamp water, quiet thick enough to drown in except for the rhythmic tick-tock of the emergency flashers marking time all-alone all-alone."
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Brain vs Body
Mirth, melancholy and misadventures.
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November 28, 2025 at 8:18 PM
"Then the body is in a silent coast down a hill into the long stretch of river bottom, that flood plain between small towns where nothing thrives, in a station wagon that's tired of carrying on."
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We. Are. A. Go.
The @welkinprize.bsky.social is open for another year, bigger and better (hopefully!) than ever before.
Can't wait to read what gets sent in. Always such a pleasure.
The @welkinprize.bsky.social is open for another year, bigger and better (hopefully!) than ever before.
Can't wait to read what gets sent in. Always such a pleasure.
I may have got a little over-excited and opened entries a little early. I'm not going to start reading until Monday, but if you want to send something over the weekend, you are welcome to do so:
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November 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
We. Are. A. Go.
The @welkinprize.bsky.social is open for another year, bigger and better (hopefully!) than ever before.
Can't wait to read what gets sent in. Always such a pleasure.
The @welkinprize.bsky.social is open for another year, bigger and better (hopefully!) than ever before.
Can't wait to read what gets sent in. Always such a pleasure.
Looking forward to it!
Hey hi what might you be doing on Saturday Dec 13 3pm EST/8pm BST? Want to launch a NiF with me? Hosted by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social and featuring @kathrynreese.bsky.social (and yes also me). It’ll be fun!
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November 28, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Looking forward to it!
"Then the body is in a silent coast down a hill into the long stretch of river bottom, that flood plain between small towns where nothing thrives, in a station wagon that's tired of carrying on."
"The body remembers the side of the road, night the color of swamp water, quiet thick enough to drown in except for the rhythmic tick-tock of the emergency flashers marking time all-alone all-alone."
sugar-pig.blogspot.com/2025/11/brai...
sugar-pig.blogspot.com/2025/11/brai...
Brain vs Body
Mirth, melancholy and misadventures.
sugar-pig.blogspot.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:18 PM
"Then the body is in a silent coast down a hill into the long stretch of river bottom, that flood plain between small towns where nothing thrives, in a station wagon that's tired of carrying on."
For Thanksgiving, my daughter dipped fudge in Reddi-Whip to make a new dessert called pre-diabetes
November 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
For Thanksgiving, my daughter dipped fudge in Reddi-Whip to make a new dessert called pre-diabetes
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Literal chills reading this piece.
“Oh, the brain, that adamantly logical and analytical mess of neurons, can try to block it out with happiness or paper it over with time. But the body remembers how it feels to be poor.”
“Oh, the brain, that adamantly logical and analytical mess of neurons, can try to block it out with happiness or paper it over with time. But the body remembers how it feels to be poor.”
"The body remembers the side of the road, night the color of swamp water, quiet thick enough to drown in except for the rhythmic tick-tock of the emergency flashers marking time all-alone all-alone."
sugar-pig.blogspot.com/2025/11/brai...
sugar-pig.blogspot.com/2025/11/brai...
Brain vs Body
Mirth, melancholy and misadventures.
sugar-pig.blogspot.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Literal chills reading this piece.
“Oh, the brain, that adamantly logical and analytical mess of neurons, can try to block it out with happiness or paper it over with time. But the body remembers how it feels to be poor.”
“Oh, the brain, that adamantly logical and analytical mess of neurons, can try to block it out with happiness or paper it over with time. But the body remembers how it feels to be poor.”
Reposted by Megan @ Sugar Pig
"The body remembers the side of the road, night the color of swamp water, quiet thick enough to drown in except for the rhythmic tick-tock of the emergency flashers marking time all-alone all-alone."
sugar-pig.blogspot.com/2025/11/brai...
sugar-pig.blogspot.com/2025/11/brai...
Brain vs Body
Mirth, melancholy and misadventures.
sugar-pig.blogspot.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
"The body remembers the side of the road, night the color of swamp water, quiet thick enough to drown in except for the rhythmic tick-tock of the emergency flashers marking time all-alone all-alone."
sugar-pig.blogspot.com/2025/11/brai...
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Happy Thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Biggest Drinking Night of the Year to all who celebrate.
November 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Happy Biggest Drinking Night of the Year to all who celebrate.
"The body remembers the side of the road, night the color of swamp water, quiet thick enough to drown in except for the rhythmic tick-tock of the emergency flashers marking time all-alone all-alone."
sugar-pig.blogspot.com/2025/11/brai...
sugar-pig.blogspot.com/2025/11/brai...
Brain vs Body
Mirth, melancholy and misadventures.
sugar-pig.blogspot.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
"The body remembers the side of the road, night the color of swamp water, quiet thick enough to drown in except for the rhythmic tick-tock of the emergency flashers marking time all-alone all-alone."
sugar-pig.blogspot.com/2025/11/brai...
sugar-pig.blogspot.com/2025/11/brai...
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People often spend time in nature to ease depression. But who or what does nature turn to when it experiences grief, loss, or depression? Megan Hanlon @sugarpigblog.bsky.social explores that question in this lovely flash, "Unreachable". You can explore it for yourself on Sunday!
November 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
People often spend time in nature to ease depression. But who or what does nature turn to when it experiences grief, loss, or depression? Megan Hanlon @sugarpigblog.bsky.social explores that question in this lovely flash, "Unreachable". You can explore it for yourself on Sunday!
I only struggle to get on the treadmill when I'm in a good mood or a bad mood. All those other days, though.
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I only struggle to get on the treadmill when I'm in a good mood or a bad mood. All those other days, though.
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those of you who are afraid of aging, please understand that one of the huge blessings of middle age is arriving at this exact station
We gotta normalize responding to bullshit with "dude who fucking cares"
October 30, 2025 at 12:44 AM
those of you who are afraid of aging, please understand that one of the huge blessings of middle age is arriving at this exact station
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“On the eve of our almost baby, baby in waiting, baby to come, baby pending, I have no calm in me, not waiting able, though I wait and wait and wait.”
New prose poetry by Joanna Clapps Herman ⬇️
New prose poetry by Joanna Clapps Herman ⬇️
Songs for Billy
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November 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM
“On the eve of our almost baby, baby in waiting, baby to come, baby pending, I have no calm in me, not waiting able, though I wait and wait and wait.”
New prose poetry by Joanna Clapps Herman ⬇️
New prose poetry by Joanna Clapps Herman ⬇️
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Today's count until entries open is SIX armadillos! The excitement is well and truly mounting at Welkin HQ!
There are now just eight maids-a-milking until the #WelkinWritingPrize is open for entries once again. Hope you're busy scribbling your stories.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Today's count until entries open is SIX armadillos! The excitement is well and truly mounting at Welkin HQ!
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Begin your week with this brilliant (and very timely) CNF by @thorntonforreal.bsky.social in Issue 2. literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
#namjooning #namjooningbutliterary
#namjooning #namjooningbutliterary
November 24, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Begin your week with this brilliant (and very timely) CNF by @thorntonforreal.bsky.social in Issue 2. literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
#namjooning #namjooningbutliterary
#namjooning #namjooningbutliterary
Today would have been my mother's 75th birthday. And so, a poem.
November 24, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Today would have been my mother's 75th birthday. And so, a poem.
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"Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and stir to combine grief with anger, relief with trauma, her eyes with yours."
"In a bowl hollow as your heart, sift together dry ingredients. Watch what once was familiar spread and scatter until it becomes something else. Pinpricks of essence in a sea of white tedium. Set it aside and keep going."
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How to Make Pumpkin Bread 15 Years Later
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November 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
"Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and stir to combine grief with anger, relief with trauma, her eyes with yours."
"Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and stir to combine grief with anger, relief with trauma, her eyes with yours."
"In a bowl hollow as your heart, sift together dry ingredients. Watch what once was familiar spread and scatter until it becomes something else. Pinpricks of essence in a sea of white tedium. Set it aside and keep going."
@muthamagazine.bsky.social
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How to Make Pumpkin Bread 15 Years Later
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<p>Dig out the recipe your mother scrawled on a pale yellow Post-It note, one ...
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November 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
"Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and stir to combine grief with anger, relief with trauma, her eyes with yours."
"In a bowl hollow as your heart, sift together dry ingredients. Watch what once was familiar spread and scatter until it becomes something else. Pinpricks of essence in a sea of white tedium. Set it aside and keep going."
@muthamagazine.bsky.social
www.muthamagazine.com/2021/10/how-...
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How to Make Pumpkin Bread 15 Years Later
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<p>Dig out the recipe your mother scrawled on a pale yellow Post-It note, one ...
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November 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
"In a bowl hollow as your heart, sift together dry ingredients. Watch what once was familiar spread and scatter until it becomes something else. Pinpricks of essence in a sea of white tedium. Set it aside and keep going."
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Autocorrect changed garlic to farcical, in case you're wondering how I'm doing
November 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Autocorrect changed garlic to farcical, in case you're wondering how I'm doing
"a woman pauses from sorting clothes beside her makeshift tent, blue tarps fluttering in the wind, and something loosens inside her"
The most beautiful thing I'll read all day
The most beautiful thing I'll read all day
Player by @claudiamonpere.bsky.social
“The swollen traffic comes and goes. The heart roosts where it can.”
“The swollen traffic comes and goes. The heart roosts where it can.”
Player - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Paul Arky on Unsplash by Claudia Monpere A piano tilts on the dirt beside a freeway entrance like an unbalanced stilt walker: chipped keys, case body cracked, chunks of wood missing, and stil...
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November 18, 2025 at 12:17 PM
"a woman pauses from sorting clothes beside her makeshift tent, blue tarps fluttering in the wind, and something loosens inside her"
The most beautiful thing I'll read all day
The most beautiful thing I'll read all day