Someone already wrote fiction inspired by the New York Stock Exchange glitch

The New York Stock Exchange, which went down due to a technical glitch Wednesday morning, resumed trading around 3 p.m. today. But on the internet, the comedic toll has been paid; every good, bad, and mediocre joke in the book has been tweeted detailing how this, surely, was the beginning of the end.

However, artist and writer Molly Crabapple beat everyone to the punch by banging out the first fiction inspired by #NYSEDown, envisioning the "dystopian aftermath" of #NYSEDown in satirical, Lovecraftian terms:

If all this feels a little familiar, you might be old enough to remember the hubbub of Y2K — but don't expect the teens to have any idea what you're talking about if you bring that up. Jeva Lange

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