Melissa Ingoldsby

Joined February 2021

1297 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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Heart twister
heart twister, You broke my shattered heart Heart twister, You tore my very soul into your mixed puzzle of grief And mixed it into the rest of your choking malaise
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
Ghost
you are not dead You’re just a ghost A living ghost stuck in the past forever with the future full of glory and glittering smoke
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
Bear trap
death defying, leaping unbound Caught up in your hummingbird throat Warbling and swallowing my heart like a dying fish to a swarm of locusts
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
Salt . Top Story - October 2023.
Salt. The way it hits your baritone mood, your slippery tongue, The way your morose passions were lit up inside like an erupting avalanche of hellfire
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
Death grip
pale blue fire sifts Tired bones, lonely soft soul Can you keep me whole?
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
Tortured
oh, just shut up about that tortured artist Bull crap. It’s a very sideways thing to watch yourself get into these situations without repose
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
The terrible things
i know you are not good for me. Yet, I believe I need you as much as I need the various organs that keep me functioning As every poem I pen for you,
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
When I look into your eyes
Asher is still in a coma. I don't know if whatever is in Black Hills, South Dakota will wake him up. It has been three days. I can't wait anymore. Ash’s husband, Hudson, is distraught. But Bhavna promises to watch over him with the kids. Including Hudson and Asher’s daughter, Shadow.
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Fiction
Firefly. Content Warning.
“Would you have regretted getting on that bus?” I ask her. She looks at me with a gentle smile. “I wrote you that letter,” she eyes my pocket with the folded paper.
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Fiction
Smoky Mirror Eyes
The Milky Way galaxy is from where you beamed down, Smoky Mirror Eyes, I was startled when I saw you, there was no sound You looked funny as you tasted my icy milk and tender cookies, so oddly glum
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
Shoshanna’s Au revoir. Content Warning.
The film honoring me and my exploits in war made me want to vomit, so I left to go to the washroom and dry heave a while before I splashed cold water on my face.
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Fiction
Raw meat mouth
Clowning around cause I have no depth The mask is dark And I secretly wept As the night bled into the sky And you saw my dream in your reflection
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets