Dead Line

[first lines]

Playwright:
They say writers are the salt of the nation. Maybe that's so. I'm kind a writer, too. Though I doubt it if I'm salty enogh for, let's say, Luxemburgers.

[on the phone]

Playwright:
Can I ask you if there's any possibility to...

Producer:
Tomorrow. That's the deadline. You asked for two weeks. You got them. My partners are getting nervous, even more nervous than they usually get. Moreover, our star is flying to Paris in four days. And guess what, he still has nothing to read on the plane.

Playwright:
Yeah, I know.

Playwright:
I started writing because my father once said, the sitting man will always run better life than the standing one. He worked standing up, and I took his word for it. There might have been other reasons why I became a writer, but I can't recall them now.