The Woke Iliad

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The woke and the based battle it out in a hilarious revamp of Homer's Iliad.

Helen, America’s Ambassador of Woke, has been abducted on the orders of the Moldovan President Bagrayev, the most politically incorrect head of state in the world. The outraged Americans, led by the conscientious General Womack, invade his small but nuclear-armed country. To gaslight Bagrayev and avoid triggering the Armageddon, they assemble a coalition of allies and sneak into Moldova overnight with a thousand submarines. Once at war, Womack must avoid escalation of violence at all costs. He must manage his opponent’s volatile personality as well as the bickering identity groups within his own ranks. Both sides must find a way to deal with ruthless social media psyops and with perfidious captives and defectors.

Read now to find out how this most modern of conflicts will end, stuck as it is between the hyper-violence of nuclear holocaust and the hyper-sensitivity of wokeness.

Talking With George Boreas

What was the inspiration for writing The Woke Iliad?

The increasing absurdity of today's politics led me to create an epic military clash between the most extreme representatives of two opposing sides.

What was the writing process like for The Woke Iliad?

The book started off as a short story that kept getting longer and longer. I wrote it last summer and the first draft was done within two months. Then there was a lot of work to be done ironing out the plot and the theme.

What music did you listen to while writing The Woke Iliad?

Mostly the track of my local coffee shop, which was a broad mix of pop music. I would sometimes listen to hip hop tracks on headphones.

What was your favorite scene in The Woke Iliad to write?

The early scenes with the first casualties and the closing scenes that revealed the plot twist (the "Trojan Horse") and put an emotional conclusion to the whole story.

What was the hardest scene in The Woke Iliad to write?

The invasion scenes were hard because they required me to do quite a bit of geographical research and the fight and training scenes because they got so cringy.