Sam Milligan

where’d you learn to whisper, a sawmill? || he/him

[Sam Milligan @sawmilligan]

Suuuuper grateful to @rejectionlit for putting this out in the world!!!

Read it today or your grandmother is gonna come hit you with a big wooden spoon👩🏻‍🍳👔⛪️

[Rejection Letters @rejectionlit]

"Flip it up, the grandmother said again, louder, in case the boy had not heard.

No, the boy said again. His face seemed to shrink and swell at the same time, as if some wild animal was trying to thrash out from inside him."

New fiction from @sawmilligan
https://t.co/TRuEXO6rER

[Sam Milligan @sawmilligan]

Read this story, which I wrote when wildfires in Canada (mostly) stopped my summer pickup basketball run last year!

[D.F.L. LIT @DflLit]

NEW at DFL:

"If The Wind Would Change" by Sam Milligan (@sawmilligan)

"At some point, I noticed there was no horizon, just a greyness where the world used to be. We’d all burn soon."

🖤🖤❤️

https://t.co/N7ABYVE2sP

[Sam Milligan @sawmilligan]

and no we didn't forget a kid at the aquarium one time, she purposefully ran off and hid in Marshall's, those are fundamentally different situations

[Sam Milligan @sawmilligan]

wooooo I can't express how happy I was to see this acceptance come through. HAD rocks. Gotta get some new #1 aspirations now

[HAD @havehadhavehad]

the day may’ve almost slipped away but we didn’t forget this @sawmilligan doozy!

”Just keep me in your heart for a while. Enjoy your sandwiches, all that. Text whoever gets my phone number next with whatever bullshit you would have told me.”

https://t.co/5rIul5Bzni

[Sam Milligan @sawmilligan]

my biggest dream right now is to own a big neon sign that says "buca di beppo" rescued (stolen?) from a buca di beppo that is closing / has closed. Just in case anyone has any leads

[Sam Milligan @sawmilligan]

@alysia61991 also true!!!

[Sam Milligan @sawmilligan]

finally getting around to listening to Bruce Springsteen's autobiography (read by him!) and good lord is that man terminally horny

[Sam Milligan @sawmilligan]

Literally while I typed this out, he said he would gladly "betray Jesus" to hook up with his Jewish neighbor as a teenager

[Sam Milligan @sawmilligan]

[an incredibly poetic, powerful paragraph about his small town community]

Of course, as an Italian, I did also love to screw [a slight chuckle]

[Sam Milligan @sawmilligan]

would never say it out loud but “may thy knife chip and shatter” is actually exactly how I feel playing 1 v 1 basketball

[Sam Milligan @sawmilligan]

My favorite genres of music are “I’m having trouble feeling like an adult in Philadelphia but things could change” and “I have GOT to get out of Ohio”

[Sam Milligan @sawmilligan]

- tweeted from a Joel Embiid shirsey and 4 inch inseam shorts

[Sam Milligan @sawmilligan]

Love the first sudden good weather day of the year. Everyone is wearing that one awful outfit that’s been calling to them from the closet all winter like the green goblin mask

[Sam Milligan @sawmilligan]

person who mostly gets news from Tik tok: people have no media literacy these days!

[Sam Milligan @sawmilligan]

this mag rocks !! One of my favorite stories from the year has a home here

[MIDLVLMAG @midlvlmag]

From RETAIL HELL:

@RuralUnease
Kevin Hopson
@GeekDaddyPrime
@sawmilligan
Mel Reynes
Keira Armstrong
@thebullfrog__
@_scoops__
@swimmerpoet
Kit Lascher
@mpjustreading
Kenneth Purscell
@gr8earlofhell
Kelli Simpson
Sally Weston Ziph
Rosanne Ehrlich
@lisahaneberg

[Sam Milligan @sawmilligan]

buying everybody at the Dulles airport Pizza Hut bar shots

[Sam Milligan @sawmilligan]

replying to my grandparents’ Christmas card email to tell them my cat died

[Sam Milligan @sawmilligan]

this was really cool and really fun and also every lit mag reading should be hosted two blocks from my apartment

[Stanchion @StanchionZine]

It's a small gesture, I mean everything about Stanchion is still miniscule in the publishing world, but it represents a commitment to paying creative people for their work & time & talent. I hope they each know how much it means to me that they were & are a part of all this 🖤🤍

[Sam Milligan @sawmilligan]

this was really cool and really fun and also every lit mag reading should be hosted two blocks from my apartment

[Stanchion @StanchionZine]

It's a small gesture, I mean everything about Stanchion is still miniscule in the publishing world, but it represents a commitment to paying creative people for their work & time & talent. I hope they each know how much it means to me that they were & are a part of all this 🖤🤍

[Stanchion @StanchionZine]

Each of the wonderful writers who took time out of their & their family's Sunday, who traveled from around the corner, central PA, NJ & even Michigan to read their poems & stories I had the privilege of publishing got a thank you card with a $10 check inside & a free poster... 🧵

[Stanchion @StanchionZine]

Literally holy crap