Melissa Ingoldsby

Joined February 2021

1314 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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Maps and half-assed cures
My best friend is sort of mad at me but can’t blame me so he has to just suck it up, as my husband says. “When I literally had broken bones last time we did this—- we still carried on. We don’t even know what’s going on with you, Bex…” Hudson grips, looking at all the laid out papers that Jack left me.
By Melissa Ingoldsbya day ago in Fiction
Dread
her laced lips try to make up a new story that tell truth with hanging shadows of altered past Her love was like a new dip in a fresh sea of light
By Melissa Ingoldsbya day ago in Poets
Abuse
he grips my coffee Eyes swallow me like a swarm Brewed hate pours on me.
By Melissa Ingoldsbya day ago in Poets
Delectation
I could take your anger, ferocity that grips my mind like a twisted piece of metal I could take your heart that hurts And show you my heart that has a different hurt in similar places
By Melissa Ingoldsby3 days ago in Poets
Evaluation for a new love feeling
you set up an evaluation for a new love feeling Each time there was a change in the language that it would use In that language there is a body’s response
By Melissa Ingoldsby3 days ago in Poets
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 Ingoldsby9 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 Ingoldsby9 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 Ingoldsby9 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 Ingoldsby11 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 Ingoldsby12 days ago in Fiction
Haiku
he’s going through rough Trauma as the boat’s hole fill With water so deep.
By Melissa Ingoldsby14 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 Ingoldsby15 days ago in Poets