“Gertrude, meanwhile, has been rigid at the podium for minutes as if paralyzed, or frozen by elemental forces. Muscular slackness has left her face, which now has a stony solidity and mannequin-like determination.”
Celebrity climate activist Gertrude Iceberg makes a speech nobody is likely to forget in my latest short story ‘The Clockwork Prophet’, featured in the Fear of Monkeys magazine, the zine of political and socially conscious writing in December 2020.http://twinenterprises.com/the_fear_of_monkeys/issue_thirtyeight/the_clockwork_prophet.htm?fbclid=IwAR0-daicZrRa1_PBMgMYA0cFtKmvpQ3KwVe_E56pIlV9zbFGfGgbBIYUM0Y
Photograph: (Shawn Thew / EPA-EFE/REX)