Footage of the full pinkie story exists and the producers are deciding on whether to eventually cut and release it in its entirely. The story is cut as is for the Project Twenty1 Festival, as one element of the theme "passage" the writers and directors decided upon was "passage of a book-a section of a larger story."
The bar patrons were originally set to be a man and a woman and the script was written with this intention, but the woman had to drop out prior to filming due to scheduling conflicts.