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  • About Us
    • About Us
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    • Meet the Team
    • About WCSU Writing
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  • Submit
    • Contest
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    • resolutions under a new moon, by Aisha Weththasingha
    • Paint of the Sea, by Milana Melnick
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  • Poetry

    as the days shorten, by Rebecca Yang

    April 15, 2025 /

    Click for PDF Flecks of sun falling / as we sit / on the fading…

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  • Poetry

    Mango, by Rebecca Yang

    April 15, 2025 /

    Click for PDF Sunset skin, mottled with black flecks Sucked breath and knife slams down…

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  • Poetry

    Tennis Shoes, by Susan Swain

    April 2, 2025 /

    Click for PDF They’re always “tennis shoes” to me, though no one in my household…

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  • Poetry

    Morning, by Olivia Austin

    March 28, 2025 /

    Click for PDF Steam rising from clothes I hang out to dry. Smoky haze catches…

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  • Poetry

    Quiet Resilience, by Lucy Liu

    February 9, 2025 /

    Click for PDF Borrow a faint amber light from the midnight street to illuminate two…

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  • Poetry

    Crabs in the Sand, by M.R. Bessac

    January 27, 2025 /

    Your mouth is a rabid dog. It sneers and titters, swishes sticky saliva. Starving. Snickering…

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  • Poetry

    Eclipse Occasion, by M.R. Bessac

    January 27, 2025 /

    Today, I will indulge in eye contact—Cavernous, sepia, soft (despite any hatred) I get jabbed into…

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  • Poetry

    The Loophole, by M.R. Bessac

    December 6, 2024 /

               After Ward’s Science, Dogfish Shark Dissection Guide A loophole, we…

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  • Poetry

    Pygmalion, Sculpting, by Shel Zhou

    October 22, 2024 /

    my hands are the rich earth of the riverbankbeneath the bridge leading to the park;they…

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  • Poetry

    fleeting pleasures, by Jovina Zion

    September 12, 2024 /

    cobalt blossoms arch their square shoulders,rosy tints of gray shimmer in the golden sun. impulses…

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