First Person
Pillow Talk
by Timothy Howard

At night words sprinkle like mist across San Francisco Bay. So much that white curtains drip with thought and yellow painted walls warp with hope. These are the nights when Life visits and whispers between spoken sentences, "You are alive." About the author:
My name is Timothy Howard. I've recently finished a ten month term with Americorps NCCC. I graduated from Western Kentucky University with a degree in English Creative Writing. I'm trying to get my feet wet in the writing world. My first memories of A Prairie Home Companion come from long family road trips where I was squeezed between two older brothers in the back seat of our red Intrepid.

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