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The fall of Gary the Gray, the last influencer.

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Outside, the sounds of panic, violence, and chaos fell away like the feathers and beak of a Chernobyl chicken. All that was left was silence sparsely sprinkled with coughing, the lonely pertussis percussion once heard after speeches by Jeb Bush before he wised up and started begging for applause. Everything was damped under a swiftly-falling blanket of silence. It seemed the world had died.

In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen tells the story of a virus and president, and million coughs and a millionaire's dumb boat, and a panic and a pandemic and a Cetacean Instagram influencer at the very end of the world.

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Jeff Dorchen

Jeff is a visual artist, songwriter/musician, actor, essayist, fiction writer, poet, playwright and screenwriter. He's been a playwright, songwriter, and performer with Chicago's Theater Oobleck since 1988, a writer and actor with Red Baron Films since 2000, and a contributor to This Is Hell! since 1996. He currently lives in Los Angeles.

 

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