Melissa Ingoldsby

Joined February 2021

1317 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

Silent Bites by Eukalypto

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Moon-Milk Eyes
moody sinking beats, My darling Moon-Milk-Eyes, Dearest love, Your diamond sparkly blue hue that radiates against your brown,
By Melissa Ingoldsby3 years ago in Poets
—a shot in the dark
I hope I get it I really hope I get it(!) Shot in the dark, lost
By Melissa Ingoldsby3 years ago in Poets
Shudder
Jane, I can shudder in sunlight, as if it is cold. I can melt away under the molten heat whilst everyone smiles and dances the day away.
By Melissa Ingoldsby3 years ago in Poets
Ipseity
Dear me, Ipseity, is it the way I sink into the pan like a deglazed wine, I’m so deglazed I’m demoralized I’m done with this pan, I lifted up
By Melissa Ingoldsby3 years ago in Poets
Snowfall
Dear horror story, my dear old friend, black charred dust You scooped out my guts. The tree limbs screamed out to me in the frosty, toe-bitten night.
By Melissa Ingoldsby3 years ago in Poets
Change
you left, I wilted I kept the pebble we dreamed was a seed, change rose.
By Melissa Ingoldsby3 years ago in Poets
Maybe someday
Dearest Jane, Where to begin? My heart is in shambles, Jane. Ever since you left, I am incredibly morose and tired, and I feel like my heart is hurting and trembling. It is trembling tremendously, pushing into my mouth, making me feel it’s solid beat, rekindling my deep feelings for you. A reminder that you may not return, but I cannot allow myself to believe it.
By Melissa Ingoldsby3 years ago in Poets
Losing
Dear winning, losing you, Losing me, losing every single thing I put my heart into, I feel like a loser My name is now closer to Losee.
By Melissa Ingoldsby3 years ago in Poets
Catalogue magazine
Turbofan engines ran efficiently twelve thousand meters high up in the exosphere of the earth, running still, surrounded by bright sunshine and comically fluffy clouds.
By Melissa Ingoldsby3 years ago in Fiction
Dear Jane
Jane, if you ever cared about me, please send me a letter posthaste. I can’t do this anymore. The lies upon lies that my insane wife tells me is piling up and your silence is killing me. It’s killing me!!!
By Melissa Ingoldsby3 years ago in Poets
Absolutely denied happiness
yes you’re denied That terrible slice of heaven Yes thank goodness You didn’t get that big gulp of relief There’s nothing inside, nothing to do
By Melissa Ingoldsby3 years ago in Poets
Dear Jane
Dear Jane, Why did you leave me? I would’ve given you more than I’ve given anyone. Even as just my friend and confidant, I had given you more than I had given anyone, gladly and freely. I am in pain now and I know you haven’t truly read hardly anything of mine in a long time, I’m sure. I can’t even see your art anymore, except in my old posted letters you sent me.
By Melissa Ingoldsby3 years ago in Poets