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By Melissa IngoldsbyPublished 11 months ago 1 min read
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I can’t find the answer

What’s the difference between drowning and dying

Currently feeling like a useless idiot

I’m so sick to death to find these words

“……”

There’s something I’m missing

A way to explain my thoughts about my own experience

Is it knocking on the door to you?

fact or fiction

About the Creator

Melissa Ingoldsby

My work:

Patheos,

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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  • C. Rommial Butler10 months ago

    Well-wrought! If only explanation alone sufficed!

  • angela hepworth11 months ago

    Such an amazing piece—that feeling of feeling like there’s something we’re missing is so hard to grapple with.

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