Melissa Ingoldsby
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A Milestone: My First Bad Review
Some might think one is meshuggah, (crazy in Jewish Swedish slang), for saying they hit a big milestone as a writer for sharing their first bad review. Sometimes the craziest thing is the realest thing we can do for ourselves. It’s scary, I won’t lie, to put this out in the open to the public. Even if only one person reads this, it puts me in the position to be judged. I made peace with it.
By Melissa Ingoldsbyabout a year ago in Confessions
Rewritten
I have rewritten all the greatest love poems over and over again to you. I rewrote the old ones, the new ones, the bad ones and the good ones. The layers of love were like bone and sinew and guts. Not the stuff that you ever liked. But, that’s me.
By Melissa Ingoldsbyabout a year ago in Poets
I am Bexley: The Bloodletter’s Scourge part 17
My mother has had ALS all her life, but my father had always taken care of her, until he passed away. He would lift her up and dance with her on her birthdays. He was the rock of our family. He enforced his roots and his ideas on how a man should act right from the start.
By Melissa Ingoldsbyabout a year ago in Fiction
