Megan @ Sugar Pig
@sugarpigblog.bsky.social
Mother, sometime writer, mediocre flute player, misplaced Texan. Words in more than two dozen literary magazines and counting.
Happy Thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Happy Thanksgiving
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.
"...crouching before the blue god of short flames in his black metal cave, winking at me like a dozen butterfly wings, sucking moisture from my lips in return for brief comfort."
Read my latest CNF in @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social
www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/dressing-in-...
Read my latest CNF in @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social
www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/dressing-in-...
November 13, 2025 at 4:13 PM
"...crouching before the blue god of short flames in his black metal cave, winking at me like a dozen butterfly wings, sucking moisture from my lips in return for brief comfort."
Read my latest CNF in @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social
www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/dressing-in-...
Read my latest CNF in @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social
www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/dressing-in-...
Snow falling on leaves
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Snow falling on leaves
It's Day 40 of the shutdown.
Here's a picture of an upside-down dog.
Here's a picture of an upside-down dog.
November 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
It's Day 40 of the shutdown.
Here's a picture of an upside-down dog.
Here's a picture of an upside-down dog.
Happy Halloween from my nervous nervous system
October 31, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Happy Halloween from my nervous nervous system
We carved faces on our decorative gourds
October 29, 2025 at 12:40 PM
We carved faces on our decorative gourds
Shutdown be damned
October 25, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Shutdown be damned
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October 19, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Subscribe to my weekly-ish newsletter, or I will be forced to kill* this kitty**.
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"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-...
A tiny story from the archives at Hearth and Coffin.
www.hearthandcoffin.com/post/circle-...
October 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
"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-...
A tiny story from the archives at Hearth and Coffin.
www.hearthandcoffin.com/post/circle-...
Moody as the sky
October 9, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Moody as the sky
These coneflowers are doing their best.
October 5, 2025 at 11:59 AM
These coneflowers are doing their best.
Like this, mostly
September 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Like this, mostly
Sleepy dog pass it on
September 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Sleepy dog pass it on
This is my small beautiful moment this morning.
September 16, 2025 at 10:50 AM
This is my small beautiful moment this morning.
ICYMI - My creative nonfiction piece "Fourteen" was just nominated by @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social for Best of the Net.
Read it here: www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/fourteen-by-...
Read it here: www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/fourteen-by-...
September 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
ICYMI - My creative nonfiction piece "Fourteen" was just nominated by @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social for Best of the Net.
Read it here: www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/fourteen-by-...
Read it here: www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/fourteen-by-...
My son won a piggie at a carnival game and gave it to me because he knows 🍬🐷
September 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
My son won a piggie at a carnival game and gave it to me because he knows 🍬🐷
I made it to the point where my manuscript is ready to send to beta readers! Holla!!
August 31, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I made it to the point where my manuscript is ready to send to beta readers! Holla!!
Help me, @mattkendrick.bsky.social, you etymological genius. They're saying I'm *not* rattled, I'm raddled?! Nothing makes sense.
August 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Help me, @mattkendrick.bsky.social, you etymological genius. They're saying I'm *not* rattled, I'm raddled?! Nothing makes sense.
"In early dreams, you’re worried you haven't paid the rent. You’re just a college student striving to make it on your own. Were you supposed to clock in today? Is the rent overdue? Who can you ask, and why can’t you remember?"
www.gordonsquarereview.org/megan-hanlon...
www.gordonsquarereview.org/megan-hanlon...
August 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
"In early dreams, you’re worried you haven't paid the rent. You’re just a college student striving to make it on your own. Were you supposed to clock in today? Is the rent overdue? Who can you ask, and why can’t you remember?"
www.gordonsquarereview.org/megan-hanlon...
www.gordonsquarereview.org/megan-hanlon...
I bought this rad Trapper Keeper notebook and it's definitely going to make me a real writer.
August 10, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I bought this rad Trapper Keeper notebook and it's definitely going to make me a real writer.