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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Strangely, my name is
I fell so madly in love with you, my Jade skinned Indian love, Your mer-tail like a jewel, so bright teal Your long limbs so elegantly placed against my skin, so cold and wet and
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
Good poem:food porn
secret screen of a lavish deluxe, delicate lush Stuffing my face like a bloated monster As I sneak into the scenes of a hole-in-the-wall kitchen
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
Vocal & my relationship to publishing traditionally . Top Story - May 2024.
Ever since my small writing beginnings, when I started writing on Vocal in February 2021, I had been in a truly terrible slump & funk when it came to my writing. I had so many unfinished projects, ideas, half finished manuscripts and first chapters that were going nowhere.
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Motivation
Malaise of malaise
Ah. The malaise of this story doesn’t even begin to unwind the tension that lies between my bones, each joint being held by tacky glue
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
Trauma sparkle
a politic is a bag o’ tricks, Taxes are the best bag of all You win some you lose big I am The Queen of tired Fucking exhausted like a waterlogged rock
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
sun
how can you break down your syllabic structure like dancing rain against the windy lake, The structure of the struggle that made you so brave
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
Am I ready for this
My heart would be pounding like a jackhammer, right? Is that the right way to put it? Especially if I had a working heart.
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Fiction
Teri
oh wait it’s you, the absolute stunner of my heart Leaping into the haphazard depths of my beating knocker with precision
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
Screech
kiss the baby over and over, smells like fresh baked bread Trying to write a single sentence A letter, a sound like a dong from a large metal instrument
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
#sad dawn/sundown
My good friend Oneg and I collaborated to write this poem based on body dysphoria and the grief / anxiety that comes with it. Please check out their amazing writing and truly inspiring poetry today!
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
Holy mess
we planned to destroy ourselves before any destroyed each other I dipped in Holy water to keep the peace You stepped into the flames to keep me warm
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
Angel Anger
you hid under the veil of sacristy A false room of self-righteous prayer that cast out the small demons that fancied to destroy me piece by little piece
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets