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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Heartache heartbreak heartquake
I thought I wanted to feel that last shred tear from my colorless, ravaged chest The very last rip before I collapsed I thought I needed you to take that last agonizing moment to reform the time for us together in a new flurry of moments.
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
Practical Jokes
binders up as shields I sip my soda, friend jokes fizz through nose, friends tease
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
You already know
you already know How i broke down Like a leaking well And collapsed all my stone like besotted clay that cannot keep its shape.
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
Awkward text
That awkward moment When your good news lives like trash A bad text unspent
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
Not numb
gets under skin, numbed The surgeon’s claim to fame, “whoops!” I feel everything
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
Ambivalence
Long bouts, cold shoulder Like winter, you froze my heart Silly rabbit, tricks
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
A new type of zombie… Bloodletters
If you ever happen to be born in the world of Bexley’s post-apocalyptic nightmarish realm, you will find yourself smack dab in the middle of either domestic zombie paradise (especially if you're zombie elite) or sprinting for your very life. If you are not running, then as a human you must remain in your crowded bunkers and caves. To save your skin and your blood.
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Fiction
hypothalamus Puncture
you left a very deep impression of a black hole On the structure of my brain Unfolding fast, teeter-tottering to my homeostasis,
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
Heart twister
heart twister, You broke my shattered heart Heart twister, You tore my very soul into your mixed puzzle of grief And mixed it into the rest of your choking malaise
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
Ghost
you are not dead You’re just a ghost A living ghost stuck in the past forever with the future full of glory and glittering smoke
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
Bear trap
death defying, leaping unbound Caught up in your hummingbird throat Warbling and swallowing my heart like a dying fish to a swarm of locusts
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
Salt . Top Story - October 2023.
Salt. The way it hits your baritone mood, your slippery tongue, The way your morose passions were lit up inside like an erupting avalanche of hellfire
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets