Alicia Melnick

Joined January 2026

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Writer & visual artist exploring emotional truth, creativity, and the long work of breaking inherited patterns. Essays and prose exploring resilience, identity, and carrying light forward.

📜 writing | 🎨 art → @spookywhimsy

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ORIGINALITY WILL NO LONGER BE PERMITTED
ATTENTION Attention. If you can still register this frequency, this message applies to you. Originality and emotion will no longer be permitted.
By Alicia Melnick 16 days ago in Poets
"I Talk Anyway”
"I miss you" "I think of you often" "I wish we had more time" "I know you tried your best" "It’s easier to speak to your silence than to engage with the living"
By Alicia Melnick 17 days ago in Fiction
Rules for Staying Small
Purpose This manual exists to ensure comfort. Not yours — theirs. It was written to prevent disruption, confusion, and unnecessary feelings.
By Alicia Melnick 17 days ago in Fiction
Whimsy as Gentle Rebellion
Whimsy isn’t escape — it’s a reminder that color, kindness, and imagination still has power. In a world that often values efficiency over wonder, seriousness over softness, whimsy is frequently misunderstood. It’s mistaken for immaturity, distraction, or avoidance. But for me, whimsy has never been about turning away from reality. It has been about meeting reality with an open heart and refusing to let it harden me.
By Alicia Melnick 20 days ago in Psyche
The Language I Learned in Silence
I’ve always seen the world differently, and I’ve spent most of my life trying to translate my thoughts, only to be misunderstood.
By Alicia Melnick 21 days ago in Psyche

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"I Talk Anyway”

Rules for Staying Small

Whimsy as Gentle Rebellion

The Language I Learned in Silence

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