Woke Coffee by Simon Parker - Short, Comedy - Just trying to order a coffee can be a minefield in this woke coffee shop. 5 pages - pdf format

Writer interested in feedback on this work

Why did you write this on WHITE paper? Huh?
I know what you're doing. I'm on to you.

You're just repressing all the other colors of paper.

I bet you used Adobe to create this PDF.
Just like you to use the indigenous tribe's building materials for your greedy needs.
Why not use Bluebeam? It's because you hate the color blue, isn't it? You uncouth colorist!

You make me sick...

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Okay now for the actual review...

This was perfect. I could see everything playing out in my mind as a mid 90's SNL pre-PC era skit when people could still laugh at themselves.

Well done.

-Jordan

Yet another sociopolitical story. Seems everyone is thinking the same thing and can't think of anything else. We're living in a world controlled through fear. Whether it is fear of saying the wrong thing, fear of WW3, the next round of government restrictions due to a virus very few of us need to worry about, or the virus itself. We're in a time of uncertainty, rising inflation and a plummeting economy. The old order of things is almost at an end.

All of this is helping set the tone for much of the work I'm reading here. Isn't it always up to us though? Writers, I mean. Just as Orwell did, with many others within his bracket, who else but us writers can tell it like it is? Whether through comedy, or horror, our messages are hidden almost subliminally - at least, when we're smart about it.

Nice story. It made me angry.

Hey Simon,

I got a kick out of this as well. Society is becoming a grind, that’s why I brew my own coffee at home. Cheaper too, way cheaper than almost $6 bucks for a Grande (yes, them…)

Anyway, you’re a script writing machine, I see at least one every week on the boards from you, must be the caffeine, lol.

Quoted from Storey_Matters Nice story. It made me angry.

There’s no need to get angry, because you simply need not buy into the rhetoric. Consider the fact that if someone orders a shirt that says: “There are more than 2 genders”, they have limited options for sizing:

Men’s: S/M/L/XL

Or…

Women’s: S/M/L/XL

There’s a catch 22 for every politically correct statement, you just need to find the loophole.

I get it. It's political satire and sums up the world we live in using a comedic theme.  The writing is good too and gets that needy message across.

John Stone