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Mel | Comms Specialist @melleesmith.com · 03/04/2026

Hope y'all are having a Very Good Friday. For the first time in 6 years, I submitted a short story for publication. Fingers crossed. 🤞🩷

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Mel | Comms Specialist @melleesmith.com · 29/03/2026

The best ideas grow in your subconscious, fertilized by time, space, neglect. The best ideas are delicate flowers: you'll rot the roots, wilt the blooms if you overtend them. #Writing #WritingCommunity

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Mellifera Muses 🐝 @melliferamuses.com · 24/03/2026

Did you know you can commission me for poetry, short stories, obituaries, and more? 💛🐝 Prices start from just €3. Backed by: - 25+ years' personal writing experience - 10+ years' freelancing experience - 2 writing degrees Book here: ko-fi.com/melleesmith #AmWriting #Commissions #WritingCommunity

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Mellifera Muses 🐝 @melliferamuses.com · 24/03/2026

"La Alegria" toledo is my all-time favorite sandwich— pairs so well with soup. 🍲 #Haiku #PoetryDaily #Poetry #Poem #MelliferaMuses #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

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Mellifera Muses 🐝 @melliferamuses.com · 14/03/2026

My (writing) commissions are officially open! ✨🍯🐝 Finally got the commissions page up on the website. Check it out! melliferamuses.com/commissions

Screenshot of the Commissions page of the Mellifera Muses website. The main color scheme is honey yellow. The top section shows 3 cards with some text summarizing Mellifera Muses poetry, flash fiction, and short story commissions, including starting prices and requirements. Following the commissions cards are two cards with links to past commissioned pieces, including a poem and a short story.

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Mel | Comms Specialist @melleesmith.com · 10/11/2025

Dad hit his head climbing up the dresser, just like me and my sister did when we were little: an excruciating parallel. #Poem #Poetry #AmWriting #Dementia #DoHashtagsEvenWorkOnHere #OrAmIJustOld

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Mellifera Muses 🐝 @melliferamuses.com · 10/11/2025

"Three lifetimes later, you wake to an ache in your left hip." Mellifera Muses' first commissioned short story — "Quest Started: A Man and His Cat" — is now live! A Fallout-inspired short story / side quest for my pal Keith: #AmWriting #WIP #WritingCommunity #ShortStory

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Quest Started: A Man and His Cat | Short Story by Mellifera Muses

'Three lifetimes later, you wake to an ache in your left hip.'

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Mellifera Muses 🐝 @melliferamuses.com · 22/09/2025

"Living so far away, and knowing Mama couldn’t care less about receiving a bouquet, I decided the best birthday gift I can give her is this story, this not-so-random love letter on a Sunday, just because." Flowers for Mama is up now. #AmWriting #MelliferaMuses melliferamuses.com/flowers-for-...

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Flowers for Mama | Short story by Mellifera Muses

'Some people let this world make them ugly, but not Mama — her light just keeps growing brighter.'

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Mel | Comms Specialist @melleesmith.com · 11/09/2025

The @melliferamuses.com newsletter is coming along! 🐝 My first newsletter will publish later this month. Will share the subscribe form soon!

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Mellifera Muses 🐝 @melliferamuses.com · 16/06/2025

What else can I do, under the weight of all this grief? Just become a creature of the earth again, I guess. — #Poetry #AmWriting #ShortVerses #MelliferaMuses

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Mellifera Muses 🐝 @melliferamuses.com · 29/12/2024

Some days, the heartache hurts worse than others. Like a bum knee on a rainy day. Sometimes, your climate just irritates your old wounds, and you can't really put a finger on why. #Writing #AmWriting #MelliferaMuses

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Mellifera Muses 🐝 @melliferamuses.com · 03/12/2024

Bend your life into whatever shape you like, and know that sorrow will thread through every part. Even when your suffering makes no sense, it is unavoidable. #Poetry #AmWriting #MelliferaMuses

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Mellifera Muses 🐝 @melliferamuses.com · 21/11/2024

Shut UP, Gary, you’re gonna make me cry 😭

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Mellifera Muses 🐝 @melliferamuses.com · 18/11/2024

🥹 so blessed to have folks like @gavrushka.bsky.social in my corner! 💛

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Mellifera Muses 🐝 @melliferamuses.com · 18/11/2024

@gavrushka.bsky.social Gary! I’m so glad you’re here, it’s Mel from way back in the Twitter days 😊 I’ve been looking for you and all my old pals since I joined! Hope you’re doing well

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Alex Lopez @alexlopezwrites.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

what if your ideas are as in love with you as you are with them? what if your creativity spends its days dreaming about you too? what if art is a co-creation between you (the vessel) & the eternal source of all things? what if this act of making is the universe experiencing itself through you?

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Mellifera Muses 🐝 @melliferamuses.com · 15/11/2024

"Irish butter is special." "Just like you." - Overheard in a Dublin Cafe, couplet, 2023 — #poetry #poem #micropoems #melliferamuses

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Mellifera Muses 🐝 @melliferamuses.com · 14/11/2024

In the wake of the election, I've started a new project: A guide on activism for people who are branded "too emotional" and "too sensitive" — particularly folks like me who are diagnosed as BPD or cPTSD. Because, if we're going to maximize our impact, we need to learn to work WITH our brains.

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Mellifera Muses 🐝 @melliferamuses.com · 12/11/2024

Hey Bluesky 👋 I'm Mellissa, aka Mel. I mostly write and create stuff. Some of it lives at melliferamuses.com. I'm originally from South Carolina but have lived in Ireland for the last 8 years. The election has been rough. This site looks promising, though. Y'all be good. ✌️

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