Melissa Ingoldsby

Joined February 2021

1315 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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Extra tracks to focus my feelings
These tracks mark my childhood and my teenage years, and kept me feeling grounded, at peace— because the sounds and the lyrics and the moods they represent all felt like me at one point, and my childhood specifically. Now, I listen to them as an adult in retrospective review, in a deep conversation with my past, in peace with my mind about traumas and fears I’ve had before I became an adult.
By Melissa Ingoldsby5 years ago in Poets
How WandaVision got us through COVID-19
I’ve never been too much into Superheroes. I like anti-heroes, like Hancock, or even the band of misfits that made up Watchmen (graphic novel), but even then, most of the time, I was more into romances, foreign films (Japanese horror films like Infection by Masayuki Ochiai and French films like Amelie and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie) and the occasional anime(Princess Tutu and Elfen Lied).
By Melissa Ingoldsby5 years ago in Geeks
Don't burn the garlic
“Don’t you dare burn that garlic, Frankie, or else I’ll come in there...” Alessandro warned, with a cheeky tone undercutting his faux serious demeanor.
By Melissa Ingoldsby5 years ago in Humans
Drowning in wine
I keep watching this scene over and over. I poured the red wine; the dusty old wine bottle in my grasping hand. I poured it over my face.
By Melissa Ingoldsby5 years ago in Humans
The Dance
It was in the way they didn’t move. It was in the way they could talk to one another in just a single look. It was something unspoken between them that said they can speak for each other—-and in a single gesture, a single movement, the other knew what they were conveying.
By Melissa Ingoldsby5 years ago in Humans
How Vocal made me open up my writing . Top Story - April 2021.
Okay, I just wanted to start out and thank the community of Vocal—-you guys are great. From the writers, the different and diverse communities, the editors, and the staff—thank you.
By Melissa Ingoldsby5 years ago in Journal
You didn’t call me back
I wondered why you didn’t call me back. I pictured over and over where your raven hair would lay down on my pillow and where the imprint of your body would down lay on my sheets, and how your dainty, pretty face would lay down next to mine——but you didn’t call me back.
By Melissa Ingoldsby5 years ago in Humans
I think, therefore I am
First track: Black and White. “There’s nothing wrong,” I feel it in my bones, I hear it through your tired lips, disjointed with your angry eyes—
By Melissa Ingoldsby5 years ago in Poets
The perfect formula for blending horror and fantasy
What makes a good fantasy film? What makes a good horror film? Is it the suspension of disbelief, or the engaging world that we are immersed in as the main character leaves their old, drab world behind?
By Melissa Ingoldsby5 years ago in Journal
Just like that!
I can’t do it. I can’t even get up to throw the garbage away. I don’t want to take a shower and feel better. I don’t want to feel anything.
By Melissa Ingoldsby5 years ago in Humans
Nancy
Nancy, Oh my Nancy, You were much too much for me, yet not enough. I loved you, yes, very true, but You flew away from me—
By Melissa Ingoldsby5 years ago in Horror
My dad, a Blockbuster, and acceptance
It took me all of my teen years and my early twenties to finally realize who I was—a self realized adult who is bisexual. I only had crushes on boys in elementary school, one of whom I’m with today(going on ten years plus now!), and I didn’t have crushes on any girls until the beginning of high school.
By Melissa Ingoldsby5 years ago in Humans