Protest
An angry crowd had gathered outside protesting the sweeping new laws passed by the Government.
“How can I create art if there’s no more human misery and suffering?” shouted the artist.
“Now I can afford to feed, clothe, and house all my kids without having to work three jobs. HOW DARE YOU!” screamed a woman.
“But I wanted all my money to be sucked up by the global billionaires!” another man complained.
“Now I can have decent healthcare. What made you think I wanted that?”
“The environment cleaned up? Who said we wanted a utopia?” a woman cried out.
Joanne Fisher
Word count: 99
I have a liking for absurdist humour, you may have already noticed that…
This was written with the prompt protest provided by the Carrot Ranch Jan 16 Flash Fiction Challenge.
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©2020 Joanne Fisher
joanne the geek 
Great, Joanne. They need not worry, the billionaires and governments will make sure we never get there.
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Yes I think so too.
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The first Matrix was a Utopia and humans rejected it…
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Humans, protest about so much banality, along with the real big issues that we should protest about. I sometimes wonder if it’s overdone, does it become white noise? Do we lose the power of the protest because of this? Another great response to the prompt well done.
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Imagine if there was nothing to protest! Yep, people would like complain.
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😀 Give me fewer tax breaks and free government services, you forthright and honest politicians!
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Complaints from the Ship of Fools! Some folks’ happy place is where they are most miserable. Let’s change those expectations so that is no longer “the norm”!
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I like how the story still clearly shows how important these issues are while still being tongue-in-cheek.
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Well spotted 🙂
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Gasp! The horror of taking care of people! Great use of satire to reverse engineer protests.
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Just goes to prove, people will always find something to protest about. 🙂
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Too funny. People will always find something to protest against. Well done.
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