Mussel Cove Creations

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  • Skipping Stones, Waiting to Die

    Thomas A. Hiscock, January 2026 ***  Granite spills across the low brown tide…   Colonial bones, pierced by a thin blued blade, leaking to the sea… Pylons, buried beneath the soft green loam; salt-stained – bruised purple with a limpet rash…  Vertebrae rocks, shifting crabs…   Blue mussels and teapot clams – dry, spoiled…  Sweet decay and…

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  • THE DEAD OF WINTER

    Thomas Aidan Hiscock – Mussel Cove, Falmouth, Maine – 2025 *** Miss Blue… She’s beautiful – wrapped in joy and red sex.  Arms dangle by her sides, face turned toward the light, drinking the afternoon…  Denim skies, melting sun… Trees scrape the blue, limbs cracking in the dry air.  Daylight splinters off the ice — …

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  • Up Portland — Sidenotes w/ Thomas

    Piano savant Frank Glazer (b. 1915 – d. 2015) led a life of discipline and discovery, trapped in the gilded cage of passion. Chasing a horizon only he could see – Frank’s kind heart, exuberant spirit, and talent left an indelible mark on this world.  A master of his craft and a loving soul, Frank…

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  • Peek-a-book Rare Books & Ephemera – Product Description

    A flier advertising a screening of a notorious eugenics film in Chicago, illustrated here with salacious images of jazz-age squalor and sin.
This handbill promotes a special showing of “Are you Fit to Marry?,” the 1927 adaptation of the American eugenics film, “The Black Stork.” Produced by Quality Amusement Corporation, the featured film embodies the deep…

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