Melissa Ingoldsby

Joined February 2021

1323 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

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Delectation. Top Story - February 2026.
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 Ingoldsby29 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 Ingoldsby30 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 Ingoldsbyabout a month 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 Ingoldsbyabout a month 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 Ingoldsbyabout a month 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 Ingoldsbyabout a month 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 Ingoldsbyabout a month ago in Fiction
Haiku
he’s going through rough Trauma as the boat’s hole fill With water so deep.
By Melissa Ingoldsbyabout a month 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 Ingoldsbyabout a month ago in Poets
Secret Admirer . Top Story - January 2026.
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 Ingoldsbyabout a month ago in Fiction
The agony of closeness
I know your secrets. They aren’t really hidden well. They are written all Over your face. The way your eyes hide, the way your shy smile evaporates into that well-worn snarky, wry expression
By Melissa Ingoldsbyabout a month ago in Poets
Persephone’s best friend
Ever since I left you from the mortal realm, my love, my heart has been on fire. The sky upon the Underworld has since been charred to death—-it is broken and black.
By Melissa Ingoldsbyabout a month ago in Fiction