Melissa Ingoldsby

Joined February 2021

1317 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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The elegance and painful reverie of “smooth”. Top Story - November 2023.
i soak up the leather Of my mother’s heels It feels like the very edge of the bed, where the darkness follows me in my deep brain waves, and I sense the monster inside
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
I don't like dancing in the Rain
You are like Gene Kelly, You like to dance in the rain. I’m Not like that. I like silence and quiet I like when we sit side by side,
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
He makes me feel
How can he even look at me? So close. So near. I feel his breath beating down on me. I feel his pulse racing in my mouth.
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
Childhood smoothness . Content Warning.
I found my mama’s scarf It was my favorite one she wore, It was bright cherry red and like silk Her long black curls were spilling over and under it.
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
Lump in the throat: you are so smooth
i am not fully awake. I have barely begun to contemplate my existence, just the mewling, cooing light that has blanketed my form
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
comesanimaebómbos!!!
It was a normal day at Voxmore. The evil family woke up to hatch new plans to destroy the plaza and destroy those dastardly, good-doing heroes.
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Fiction
Lonely for a feeling
check the change You were left short The bill came too late When you tried to pay too early. I’m so lonely for a feeling
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
Ghost white pain. Top Story - November 2023.
I feel myself unable to stand without getting dizzy, a nauseas mixture of the worst sort of things set to my nostrils like an old feeling, a memory, burnt tire and gasoline, and then, fresh, salty air, and I find myself gagging, as the light burns my eyes.
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Fiction
Magic act
In a poof you left, How silly, it was a trick Poof! kiss brought you back
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
Coffee switch up
Extra shot, sugar Was not supposed to be his… Chugged mine, stay up late!
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
Writing news!
Hello everyone out there in virtual Vocal-land! I hope that you are all finding your writing muse and the passion to keep going with your dreams! I have been seeing all of you shining out there on the Top Stories page and I am very grateful and pleased to have found so many of you, reading your work is always a delight and I appreciate all of your spirited originality and dedication.
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Motivation
Already dead
my heart longs deeply like a long fused sleeper cell. My soul has reached its endless state of consciousness, A flower petal that has been pressed too hard against the hard place of deathlessness,
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets