Mussel Cove Creations

making waves with every word

fantasy

  • 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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