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@meleriant.substack.com
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Kiss: photography; Marry: writing; Kill: breaded deep-fried mushrooms.

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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 15/10/2026
Feeling so sorry for the people of Alackska today.
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 15/10/2026
Would you pass the salt, which remembers the sea — modern poets at dinner parties, probably #poetry #poem
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 14/10/2026
You don’t need a second chance unless you screw up the first time. (Or 863562727th in this case)
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 14/10/2026
I used to call my mother out, then I realized it was pointless and blocked her. Her generation never cared and they don’t have any respect for the children they raised.
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 12/10/2026
“But why, mama?” “BECAUSE I SAID SO THAT’S WHY!” Then she slaps you with a shoe and you grow up and go no contact.
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 12/10/2026
You can find it here: open.substack.com/pub/meleriant
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Meleriant | Substack
Sit by my hearth. Stay awhile. Share this fold with me. Click to read Meleriant, a Substack publication. Launched a year ago.
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 12/10/2026
I don’t really have any words for how this comment makes me feel. #writer #writing #autofiction
Meleriant: I don’t have many subscribers and that’s OK because I have this. This is how I am going to measure my success from now on. I made someone feel something.

Nested comment says: my heart broke for Daisy and Evangeline. The imagery was stunning. The last two sentences before adult Evangeline appears made me cry. Daisy chasing the car is a haunting image that I will not soon forget. 
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 11/10/2026
The way he was hugging his student away from that fight though. Like he cares too much to let him do that.
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 11/10/2026
But we can’t call AI by the name it was assigned at birth because Mr. Fragility says so??
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 10/10/2026
Armored car sales are about to go through the roof in Trumps America.
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 08/10/2026
Link: meleriant.substack.com/p/a-good-girl
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A Good Girl
Some childhood wounds don't leave physical marks—they change what we learn to protect. A short story about the wounds we inherit, and the very good girls who help us break the cycle.
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 08/10/2026
A couple of my favorite comments on the deadlines for writers website from my newest submission “A Good Girl” which is also up now on my Substack. #writing #writer #shortstory #autofiction
Text reads: well, Meleriant, a shocking story but really well built. You managed to portray everyone really well, the mean, mother, especially. She clearly has issues, but poor Daisy took the brunt of it. I read it fast as I had a terrible gut feeling that it was all going wrong. It is a convincing, well pace, gut wrenching story. But humans can be really cruel, so unfortunately, this is hardly surprising. Well done. Text reads: a well paced and gut wrenching story. I enjoyed it quite a bit. Thanks for sharing. 
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Add Karen Smith to my list of badasses whose mouthy approach I respect. Actions usually speak louder than words. This is a hero, Y'all. Well done, Ma'am. You're gonna kick ass in your new position. ✊📖
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 07/10/2026
"Men are protectors," he tells me. "So you're bad at your job." "What?" He pauses, confusion flits across his face. "You admit it. Men are bad at their job," I repeat. Then, "Consider this a performance review."
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 07/10/2026
“Who would protect us from you if you were gone?”
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 07/10/2026
I used to, but now that I actually know enough syntax I don’t care. I just use speech to text and let whatever unhinged things it comes up with happen.
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 05/10/2026
Nobody wants a happy woman! Especially if she’s old—and by old we mean thirty plus. Women should be miserable so we all feel like we’re getting our moneys worth out of keeping them. —the men, probably.
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 05/10/2026
There’s one crazy guy in the neighborhood, however. 😆
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 05/10/2026
Or even “extremely competent candidate, but she’s a woman”
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 05/10/2026
They hate us so they will never admit to believing us and our fathers would sell us out to maintain their perceived power.
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 05/10/2026
I told my son’s principal about a way to peer pressure my kid into doing his work and he told me they aren’t even allowed to do that either. Might have been the only thing that would have worked but alas.
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 05/10/2026
And then they get refunded for the tariffs while we foot that bill too.
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 05/10/2026
Up in Northern MN, it’s hot enough to have the windows open throughout the day. We usually have chilly weather by now and always have snow by Halloween.
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 04/10/2026
Ivanka2
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 04/10/2026
The way I want to be able to love men—I produced two of them, bodily, after all—but I’m convinced they mostly hate us and there’s no way we can change that.
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 03/10/2026
My Moghedien, when she’s getting comfy #cat
A gray cat laying on a bed.
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 02/10/2026
So tired of the whole country dancing around these brittle ego boys.
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 02/10/2026
I see they’re front loading the copium.
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 01/10/2026
The trees and me. Congratulations buddy!
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 01/10/2026
Live by cringe; die by the cringe.
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 01/10/2026
Really mad I don’t have this.
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 01/10/2026
This reminds me of that time my cousin got a tattoo that said “only god can jude me”
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 01/10/2026
He’s not even from here.
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 30/09/2026
Meet Graendal, my daughter whom I birthed from my own body. #cat
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 30/09/2026
Ten years in the making, and something I'm quite proud of, I give you my autumn haiku. #haiku #poetry
A landscape with grass in the foreground, rolling hills beyond. The sun is shining. Text overlays the picture: Grass gives up its blue, to sway in the autumn wind, clad in softened gold.
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 29/09/2026
Oh he got mad when he got corrected by a lady. Thank you ma’am, from Minnesota.
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 27/09/2026
Honestly I forget half of mine anyway. Might have to read what I wrote and be surprised as well.
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 27/09/2026
I’m sure the puppy will show him the ropes.
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 27/09/2026
*regardless and though you’re right about that, the discussion is about times when they do. Stay on topic.
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 27/09/2026
White people are dumb if they think there would be any jobs left for them if the 1% got their way and took us all back there. They’re delusional if they think it would make their lives better in any capacity.
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 26/09/2026
This can’t be the same administration that was throwing such a fit over the TikTok algorithm not so long ago?
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 26/09/2026
If this is what power looks like, it sure don’t look like much.
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 26/09/2026
Commemorating the accomplishment of finishing part one of Constance Hale’s Sin and Syntax with a doodle. #grammar #writing
Badly doodled star with the words “your did it” on the page of a book.
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 25/09/2026
Oooh another person who lives with their books! I highlight, underline, leave notes in the margins and doodle in many of mine!
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 24/09/2026
Had an IUD embed itself twice. No pain relief when they took it out. Heavily bleeding and the doc just shrugged.
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 22/09/2026
This might be my most favorite clip ever. It’s like when peepaw goes in the other room to yell and we finally get some peace
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 22/09/2026
We can’t even drive our own vehicles without them forcing us to wear a seatbelt and they’re trusting these companies to buckle up?
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 20/09/2026
Oh can this work for other things? I didn’t intend to break the law while driving, my foot is just a little heavy.
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 20/09/2026
If there’s no upper limit on age there shouldn’t be a lower limit either. Let’s let teens start making choices for us.
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Meleriant @meleriant.substack.com · 20/09/2026
Loved reading that series!
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