Melanie Mulrooney

Last night I dreamt we were lobsters.  I was tucked behind a rock, hiding from the cod swimming overhead. The bright blue of your claw caught my attention; one in two million, deliciously unique. “You’re new here,” I rasped. “Lobsters can’t talk,” you replied. Your antenna twitched in my direction. I crouched in my shadowed crevice, waiting for the light to cease filtering to the ocean floor, for you to come and make me yours. But first, you had to prove yourself—fight your way to dominance. The reigning champion of our rocky oasis charged, his brown-green a stark contrast to…