I DID IT! I MADE IT TO *100* AGENT DECLINES/NO RESPONSES! WOOOOHOOOO TIME TO PARTY AND/OR SOB
Megan @ Sugar Pig
@sugarpigblog.bsky.social
Mother, sometime writer, mediocre flute player, misplaced Texan. Words in more than two dozen literary magazines and counting.
"so my bones are not cobwebs"
Sumitra Singam@pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 2h agoThank you @trashcatlit.bsky.social for taking my perimenopausal plaint. And thank you @summermoth.bsky.social for helping me with the title for this piece! 🧡🧡🧡 “The Lulu Lemon women talk of Romeo and Juliet between sets of bicep curls because Lovefool comes on…” trashcatlit.com/maybe-there-...
In the age of computers, be a human.
Ed Maibach@maibached.bsky.social · 3d agoHappy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social
Just 18 easy steps! "16. Bang head repeatedly on kitchen table."
Megan @ Sugar Pig@sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 4d ago"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-...
Joke's on you...the job I recently applied to never contacted me for an interview.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 3d agoIs asking someone to leave the beverages at home for an interview as fussy as reminding a lady to wear pantyhose or a gentleman to ask before lighting a cigarette? We assembled a team of Post staffers across the newsroom — and commenters — to find out: https://wapo.st/4dwx0LS
Just 18 easy steps! "16. Bang head repeatedly on kitchen table."
Megan @ Sugar Pig@sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 4d ago"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-...
"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-...
How to Be in Three Places at Once
Mirth, melancholy and misadventures.
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"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"
Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein@fklein907.bsky.social · 4d agoFall temps arrived like a smack in the face. We did not go gentle into that good season.
"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...
A Ballet Queen's Hunger / Nina Miller
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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
From the #quote book today: "There are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life." -Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
"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. "
Megan @ Sugar Pig@sugarpigblog.bsky.social · last wk."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-...
"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. "
Megan @ Sugar Pig@sugarpigblog.bsky.social · last wk."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-...
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
Ploughshares Literary Journal@pshares.bsky.social · 6mo agoThank you so much to everyone who submitted to our 2026 Emerging Writers’ Contest! Our readers and judges look forward to reading your submissions. Winners will be announced in September. Didn’t submit in time? Have no fear! Our regular reading period opens June 1st at noon EST.
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
Ploughshares Literary Journal@pshares.bsky.social · 6mo agoThank you so much to everyone who submitted to our 2026 Emerging Writers’ Contest! Our readers and judges look forward to reading your submissions. Winners will be announced in September. Didn’t submit in time? Have no fear! Our regular reading period opens June 1st at noon EST.
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...
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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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...
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…
brokenheartsliterary.com
"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-...
Sit / by Megan Hanlon
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I admire the audacity of this solitary sunflower growing in somebody's front lawn.
Issue 10 / Submission Call 1st of January 2027 Prose & Poetry / Art & Hybrids Guidelines: rawlit.weebly.com/submissions....
Edit: She's a 10, *and* she corrects people's grammar.
Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 2w agoShe's a 10, but she corrects people's grammar.
Today I tried to get on the treadmill without shoes on, and that's how my whole week has been.
"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...
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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From the #quote book today: "Blessed are the pouring." -John Roedel @johnroedel.bsky.social
"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...
Liberty, TX, Travelodge / Megan Hanlon
theprideroars.blogspot.com
From the #quote book today: "Blessed are the pouring." -John Roedel @johnroedel.bsky.social
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.
Megan @ Sugar Pig@sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 3w ago"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...