Melissa Ingoldsby

Joined February 2021

1315 stories

Bio

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

Silent Bites by Eukalypto

Achievements (5)

Stories (1315)

Filter by community

Sort by (Optional)

It’s Bella, not Taco Bell
They used to call her Taco Bell, but that wasn’t her name. It was Bell. Belle. Like Beauty from Beauty and the Beast, Belle. It should’ve been, anyway.
By Melissa Ingoldsby5 years ago in Petlife
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 Ingoldsby5 years ago in Humans
To You
An experimental Open Epistolary poem to my Aunts, my Mother, my sisters, and my Baba, my grandmother, and especially—-You. I love you. Love, Me.) ❤️ P.S- I picked Scarlett for the photo because she inspires me to fight no matter what happens in life.
By Melissa Ingoldsby5 years ago in Humans
I’ll give you the biggest toast, my dear
“You deserve better, my dear,” He whispered, filling the glasses quietly. “And I know we can’t toast... but maybe if we cover the glasses, we can do it in a similar spirit,” Manny continued as he and I locked eyes.
By Melissa Ingoldsby5 years ago in Humans
Secret Admirer
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 Ingoldsby5 years ago in Poets
Bad Santas!
Ah, Santa Claus. You might think of a fat, jolly old man with a white beard, twinkling eyes and an infectious laugh, whose sole purpose in life is to make families and children across the world happy—-by bringing toys and sweets for us to open on Christmas Day.
By Melissa Ingoldsby5 years ago in Geeks
Goosebumps
You ever feel that chill run down your spine? A tingling along your arm? The tiny hairs on your arms standing on end as though they are in shock of what terrifying thing might be lurking in the shadowy corner of your dark room at night?
By Melissa Ingoldsby5 years ago in FYI
New Day
The sky had decided to make it personal. No rain for what seemed like forever, but now, it opened up and pelted down it’s fury upon me as though it was meant for me.
By Melissa Ingoldsby5 years ago in Humans
you're still my everything
It has been a couple of years since that first soft and wonderful kiss between Josh and me. We haven’t kissed since that last time, after I played Csárdás for him with my double bass and my new original compositions.
By Melissa Ingoldsby5 years ago in Humans
Own Each Room
For me, when it comes to organizing— I flail and flop like a fish out of water, wondering why I have to try to learn to breathe air when it’s just easier to go back into the water.
By Melissa Ingoldsby5 years ago in Lifehack
Cars, one of the better Pixar films
I love Pixar. All the way from their very first feature film, Toy Story, to the wonderful Wall-E and sentimental Up, I always appreciate their deftly skilled and innovative animation, their wonderfully original plots and in depth characters.
By Melissa Ingoldsby5 years ago in Geeks
You
Rejected—- Is a very beautiful word, It meanders somewhere along your hippocampus And your sight To Carry it, When you look at your reflection
By Melissa Ingoldsby5 years ago in Poets