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JOHNNY
It’s for a small literary journal. You’ve probably never heard of it.
GODOT
Try me.
JOHNNY
Sighs
...Town Tattle.
GODOT
The gossip magazine? My wife used to read that at the hair salon before she got hit by a bus.
JOHNNY
She got hit by a bus!?
GODOT
I’m living here, ain’tI?
JOHNNY
What does that have to do with your wife getting hit by a bus?
GODOT
Nothing ever works out once you end up here.
Johnny is now convinced he is talking to an unstable person. Starts to walk a way again.
JOHNNY
Excuse me.
GODOT
Calling after him.
Let me guess. You had dreams of writing for something big, like National Geographic.
Johnny stops dead in his tracks.
JOHNNY
How did you know that?