Word-slingers wanted.

Send us your poems, your prose, essays and anecdotes. We'll publish them here.

The Press Writers Corner features original, creative writing submitted by our readers. We publish the column most Fridays in the North Idaho Life section of the print edition of The Press.

Send your Writers Corner submissions to Maureen Dolan, mdolan@cdapress.com.

We prefer email submissions, and ask that you limit the length of your short stories, essays and poems. Please include your hometown with your submission.

You can send hard-copies by mail to Maureen Dolan at The Press, 201 Second St., Coeur d'Alene, ID 83814.

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Alone in the Crowd...

Here I sit, looking at the faces,

There are so many, but I'm still

Alone in this crowd.

I watch as everyone is on their own,

Too independent to even look at each other.

I look at everyone, but no one looks at me,

I'm alone in the crowd.

What has our world come to?

Are we just so ashamed of ourselves

To even look at one another?

While I sit here in awe,

Amongst all these people,

I'm alone, But yet,

I'm not.

- Tayler Ekness, Post Falls