Melissa Ingoldsby

Joined February 2021

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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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theophany
Tender boughs of inexplicable agony run through frail human veins I touch the blue tendrils of flame It sinks into my mortal sphere as a sinking breath that feels like a billion breaths in one
By Melissa Ingoldsby4 months ago in Poets
The lantern the witch gave me . Top Story - September 2025.
The argument of staying off the moors to stay on the main road I knew I never was born to listen The winds always whispered wild things to me
By Melissa Ingoldsby4 months ago in Poets
She was murdered to haunt you
she loved the summer Ghost light hits skin, goosebumps grow Wails in loop on swing.
By Melissa Ingoldsby4 months ago in Poets
A woebegone sentiment
The slices of my heart divined in a heaving toil I cannot burden your heavy thoughts My woebegone sentiments are harder to catch than a hummingbird in flight
By Melissa Ingoldsby4 months ago in Poets
Swallow the noise
when you learn that you’ve always been invisible, even when so many are looking you and the world tilts, You turn the TV off, the screen that held you when others were cold,
By Melissa Ingoldsby4 months ago in Poets
Deleted Aki & Manuel scene from Silent Bites
In Florida, summer was just starting in 2013, with the edge of spring just a quiet whisper as the intense humid air hit the duo. Driving with the windows open was intolerable. The wind that swept through the pair felt like a hot gush of mushy, muddy mist.
By Melissa Ingoldsby4 months ago in Chapters
Black veiled honey . Honorable Mention in The Road Drops Here Challenge.
are you drowning in the same honeyed darkness that preceded me does Death wear an invisible halo? Have you come for me, not for my hour of death, but to whisper secrets behind my shadow?
By Melissa Ingoldsby5 months ago in Poets
Luminous Fire-Eyes
your halo sets atop your flaming eyes Your luminous visage, so fraught with peril and fear Collides with your soft milky voice
By Melissa Ingoldsby5 months ago in Poets
I am Bexley “Rumors” chapter 26
“So, I was out of it for what seemed like a whole day. I was going in and out of consciousness. I couldn’t even see ahead with my vision being so clouded. Then India caught up with me with a whole new crew,” Serena explained.
By Melissa Ingoldsby5 months ago in Fiction
The magic garden . Honorable Mention in The Shape of the Thing Challenge.
“O-Once upon a time,” she started, her eyes luminous from the light gleaming from the large window of the small room. Her quick expression darted around, looking about carefully, and then, longingly, at her family. She said much clearer and with a resounding nod:
By Melissa Ingoldsby5 months ago in Fiction
Trapped
my words are stuck, trapped, locked up unstoppable, the momentum has pushed me so hard, so fast, My brain is trapped, my heart is stuck
By Melissa Ingoldsby5 months ago in Poets
Interrupted Tanka
“I really like you,” words grip Dan, lost in dead calls Arturo, three sounds That linger in Dan’s head, shot Off in a cut call, “I’m yours.”
By Melissa Ingoldsby5 months ago in Poets