Flumes Vol. 6: Issue 1, Summer 2021 | Page 86

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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?