Escape Bod, episode 683, Flash Crash by Louis Evans. I'm going to Hello and welcome to Escape Pod, your weekly science fiction podcast.

I'm your host this week, Tina Connolly, and I'm here to bring you Flash Crash

by Lois Evans.

This story is original to Escape Pod.

Lewis Evans is a writer, literary producer, and New York City native.

He has moved around some... producer and New York City native.

He has moved around some, but he's always lived in the dead center of the nuclear target

map.

It's kind of freaky when you think about it.

Your narrator this week is Iba Armankoss.

Raised by sword fighters and Eastern European Freedom Fighters, Iba Arminkoss is a writer, director

currently based in Los Angeles.

Her darkly comedic genre sensibilities are showcased in two web series and a feature film forthcoming

later this year. One day she will find time to make a website, but in the meantime you can follow her projects and adventures on Twitter or Instagram.

So get ready to meet the algorithms because... Instagram.

So get ready to meet the algorithms because it's story time.

Flash crash by

Flash Crash by Lewis Evans, narrated by Ebaramonchus.

Maisie was seven years old on the day that she woke up and died.

Blame it on the algorithms, if you wish. The survivors, and there were not many of them, certainly did.

Maisie, or... were not many of them, certainly did.

Maisie, or modified arbitrage intelligence for stocks and international equities, was an algorithm herself, a flash trading algorithm.

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