Melissa Ingoldsby

Joined February 2021

1296 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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I think, therefore I am
First track: Black and White. “There’s nothing wrong,” I feel it in my bones, I hear it through your tired lips, disjointed with your angry eyes—
By Melissa Ingoldsby5 years ago in Poets
The perfect formula for blending horror and fantasy
What makes a good fantasy film? What makes a good horror film? Is it the suspension of disbelief, or the engaging world that we are immersed in as the main character leaves their old, drab world behind?
By Melissa Ingoldsby5 years ago in Journal
Just like that!
I can’t do it. I can’t even get up to throw the garbage away. I don’t want to take a shower and feel better. I don’t want to feel anything.
By Melissa Ingoldsby5 years ago in Humans
Nancy
Nancy, Oh my Nancy, You were much too much for me, yet not enough. I loved you, yes, very true, but You flew away from me—
By Melissa Ingoldsby5 years ago in Horror
My dad, a Blockbuster, and acceptance
It took me all of my teen years and my early twenties to finally realize who I was—a self realized adult who is bisexual. I only had crushes on boys in elementary school, one of whom I’m with today(going on ten years plus now!), and I didn’t have crushes on any girls until the beginning of high school.
By Melissa Ingoldsby5 years ago in Humans
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