Melissa Ingoldsby

Joined February 2021

1309 stories

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My work:

The Job , The Space Between Us , Green,

The Unlikely Bounty, Straight Love, The Heart Factory, The Half Paper Moon, I am Bexley and Atonement by JMS Books

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How to grieve when you cannot stand feeling anymore
she careens the sullen halls searching for a cry that has been struck out of existence She calls in a flutter of tears that bellow as a warm baby’s swaddling song
By Melissa Ingoldsby3 days ago in Poets
Single Dad
I’m a single dad. I live in a big city. Big deal. My girlfriend Joan left me, and now I have our son, Marcus, who is three and very adamant that he will become the world’s first toddler circus acrobat. He seems to want to climb everything, everywhere we go, and seems to have it in to give me a heart attack before he turns four.
By Melissa Ingoldsby4 days ago in Fiction
To break tradition
He didn’t care about Valentine’s Day. He really hated it, actually. He took the approach of the character, Becker, when it came to love, remembering the line from the show:
By Melissa Ingoldsby4 days ago in Fiction
Plainly
my scream did not pierce the sky in a crackling snap of a whip, it did not touch the heart of heaven nor did it make the ground tremble and scatter like a million fall leaves
By Melissa Ingoldsby5 days ago in Poets
Something is beginning….
Sure, I had been in many blockbuster hits. I was born, well, more poignantly and in exact terms, I was created in Hollywood’s image as I was forming in my mother’s womb.
By Melissa Ingoldsby6 days ago in Fiction
Haiku
he’s going through rough Trauma as the boat’s hole fill With water so deep.
By Melissa Ingoldsby8 days ago in Poets
I made you smile
I’m this close to joy My joke made you smile fast Such a perfect mood.
By Melissa Ingoldsby9 days ago in Poets
Secret Admirer . Top Story - January 2026.
Every night at midnight, the purple clouds came out to dance with the blushing sky. The blush turns orange and pink. It seeps into my very soul, where I feel I am sinking. Sinking and falling.
By Melissa Ingoldsby9 days ago in Fiction
The agony of closeness
I know your secrets. They aren’t really hidden well. They are written all Over your face. The way your eyes hide, the way your shy smile evaporates into that well-worn snarky, wry expression
By Melissa Ingoldsby9 days ago in Poets
Persephone’s best friend
Ever since I left you from the mortal realm, my love, my heart has been on fire. The sky upon the Underworld has since been charred to death—-it is broken and black.
By Melissa Ingoldsby9 days ago in Fiction
The Lottery chapter 30
Emma looked as though she had all her blood drained suddenly, then with a soft squeak, she sang out with her skin glowing once again, “Cara! Cara! Is that the Holy Ghost or is this my SISTER!!!!!” She jumped up and ran over to the tall black woman. I immediately recognized her though it had been a long time. Several years since their parents died and Cara left.
By Melissa Ingoldsby9 days ago in Humans
Very small
how to look invisible Is when you start making yourself very small when someone acts very big around you The look of being invisible is the feeling of very small
By Melissa Ingoldsby16 days ago in Poets