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

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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 Ingoldsby7 months ago in Fiction
I’m trying to bite my tongue
Sometimes I get so angry that I wish I could make a shit ton of money the kind of money you say you’ll make one day I actually don’t care about money you know this but you used those green jackals against me like an alligator grinning wildly
By Melissa Ingoldsby7 months ago in Poets
All the poems are from you
I feel idiotic, I don’t know what to do Every single time I read a poem I think it’s from you Oh I know, it’s not really true
By Melissa Ingoldsby7 months ago in Poets
First time i remember being invited to be invisible
why does the poet want to wreak havoc on the world with their most wretched feelings? Why does the poet dream of the horrors of the world etched across their vision like a giant wall being scratched out?
By Melissa Ingoldsby7 months ago in Poets
I am Bexley book two: Talking Rocks chapter 21. Top Story - June 2025.
Author note: if you enjoy this please check out the first book of I am Bexley series, on Amazon, JMS Books and Barnes and Noble!
By Melissa Ingoldsby7 months ago in Fiction
I Am Bexley is available June 21st!!
JMS Books presents my fantasy novel I am Bexley, a series of three books! I am currently working on the second book. If you like fantasy and romance, with new twists on zombie troupes and apocalypse stories, this series is for you!!
By Melissa Ingoldsby7 months ago in BookClub
4 Seasons
Fall French light dapples on the wall Embroidered light as soft as lace She dances with the red patterns that float like fairies
By Melissa Ingoldsby7 months ago in Poets
Helen Marion Palmer Geisel (September 16, 1898 – October 23, 1967)
"Whatever Helen did, she did it out of absolute love for Ted." -niece of Dr. Seuss, Peggy "her last and greatest gift to him." -Secretary Julie Olfe
By Melissa Ingoldsby7 months ago in History
I am Bexley
Have you ever been so exhausted that you want to cry but you can’t, and so tired you can’t sleep but instead you’re just overwhelmingly nauseous? How about so un-dead that you don’t realize when you’ve slipped into a catatonic state?
By Melissa Ingoldsby7 months ago in Fiction
I cut my tongue out
yes I did the thing that I wished that I hadn’t, I cut my tongue out for years, each day my voice was a reminder of a dead weight that grew intensely numb by the minute
By Melissa Ingoldsby7 months ago in Poets
What lives in the silence?
what lives in the silence of a Dead Sea of Thieves swallowing up a small mercy—-a sword inside of a raw stone, nothing to squeeze out of,
By Melissa Ingoldsby8 months ago in Poets
I resign from resignation
I resign from resignation. I have had far too many times in my life where I have wanted to quit. Quit feeling so much, quit failing so hard, quit, quit, quit. I quit from being a quitter. I have had hundreds of rejections from my writing over the last few years. Yes, I am disappointed every time, but I can’t stop. I can’t stop even if a review I read says they think my characters are unlikeable. I understand other people may not like my work. I know that it’s hard to keep going. I feel I must.
By Melissa Ingoldsby8 months ago in Journal