Melissa Ingoldsby

Joined February 2021

1324 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

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You don't care
my younger self told me a story that a heart being broken Down into little bits well, it was a great story, but there was no ending
By Melissa Ingoldsbyabout a year ago in Poets
The Half Paper Moon EXCLUSIVE
Jean felt her hand traveling with trepidation toward his knee. “We gotta make him so jealous that he leaves me alone for good.”
By Melissa Ingoldsbyabout a year ago in Poets
Split slice slaw saw . Top Story - January 2025.
If I was editing myself like an object Obsessed with the idea of a perfect A perfect shot, a perfect scene, a perfectly perfect me
By Melissa Ingoldsbyabout a year ago in Poets
Annoying song
i don’t want to write I have to write My writing is a woman singing an annoying song in my head over and over and over again
By Melissa Ingoldsbyabout a year ago in Poets
Where is my mind
why does this thing that bounced back from me to you, a reverberating, echolocation of a single thread Twanging from beat to beat as a single swing from a sword, a very powerful drum that deepens the whole world in a mournful beat of breathing pounding
By Melissa Ingoldsbyabout a year ago in Poets
One last thing
if I could spend eternity in agony Restless with agony, oh yes, that recipe for me would be The best part of the color that created our very ancient atoms
By Melissa Ingoldsbyabout a year ago in Poets
Tired of running
I’m proud of my four books that are currently available on JMS Books, Barnes and Noble and Amazon. Here are four haiku to highlight the main protagonist’s experience: (links to purchase and more information are provided in the title)
By Melissa Ingoldsbyabout a year ago in Poets
Mother wounds. Top Story - December 2024.
am I so lucky, unlucky? Aimless and naive When my heart stops, half crumbled The mother wound creeping inside out The deepest of all the most important parts of this scar
By Melissa Ingoldsbyabout a year ago in Poets
I guess I’m that writer-a Crime Drama junkie
All writers have to find their niche, what makes them unique and tick. I feel lost in the sea of books and genres that spin such intriguing tales. Dystopian, steam-punk, horror, fantasy, psychological thriller, romance and true crime, all of them have such a unique and powerful place in the world of fiction.
By Melissa Ingoldsbyabout a year ago in Psyche
I’m blurry face
I’m blurry face I have no cap I don’t have a problem, proper grammar or punctuation but it’s better I’m the blurry face monster crying over the deep end of the pool, shaking in the shades of grey and raging, violent blue
By Melissa Ingoldsbyabout a year ago in Poets
Run
that house that built me Split me like a pulled, stray nerve I tell you to run.
By Melissa Ingoldsbyabout a year ago in Poets
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i have less than nothing left I found my plastic smile left broken down in the trash I have no title to give this poem My bones no longer want to keep this home
By Melissa Ingoldsbyabout a year ago in Poets