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Megan is a DC-based writer. She earned her MFA in Fiction from the University of Maryland in College Park, winning both the Jack Salamanca Thesis Award and the Kwiatek Fellowship. Her work has appeared in McSweeney’s, The Nashville Review and The Establishment among other publications. Her debut short story collection Softie is forthcoming with West Virginia University Press in December 2024.

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“But I don’t know if I love him. I just hate him less
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“Before I was born, I tried to kill myself. My dad told me how, according to the social worker who’d taken me, I’d wrapped myself up in my birth mom’s umbilical cord as a baby so that I almost choked to death.”
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tags: abuse-survivors, grief, healing, trauma

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“So unfair: the people who hated me most were always the ones who were hard to hate back.”
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“But I don’t know if I love him. I just hate him less
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tags: bullying, crushes, depression, high-school, relationships

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“Even when I was beautiful, I’d gotten hurt. I think I just wanted to be miserable in a way that made me feel beautiful.”
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tags: ageism, aging, beauty, lookism, self-hated

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“Shame weighs Cherish down so heavily that she feels herself sinking all the way to hell.”
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“At twenty-three, she knows that people never cease being their parents’ children even after they’re grown. That’s why Sarah and her are always saying they want to be rich, hot, childless aunties whom all their nieces look up to. That way they don’t have to risk the pain that comes with pulling smaller, more vulnerable people from their insides and into a dying planet.”
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