Lendle

“It was quite a morning. India, Russia, the DAX in Germany, FTSE in London, et al. went limit down and suspended trading in the darkness of the American night. The contagion cruise that embarked from Asia while America snored the night away tucked into their California-king, thera-pedic, space-foam mattresses purchased on their Visa cards, continued its round-the-world tour past China and Australia, past India, the Oil Fiefs, Europe, across the Atlantic, right up into the East River, onto Manhattan Island, and right down Wall Street.

Advisors woke the President and tried to him to preemptively close the markets. “No can do,” was his reply. The U.S. markets had to open. Refusing to open would be a sign of capitulation and surrender. “America never surrenders!”

The professorial Fed Chairman, his ever-whitening beard and ever-receding hairline making him look ever-the-more gnomish, loosened his tie and poured himself a drink at the 7:30 open. Perhaps the great ship would not sink, he hoped. The Fed had key-stroked hundreds of billions of dollars throughout the night and had managed to prop up the wobbly futures markets. Their hope was that the animal spirits could be tamed by the NYSE open. But the entire system sank right from the opening bell.”

America’s day of reckoning has come.

Indivisible is the story of a tormented soldier, an abusive sheriff, a vain diplomat and a desperate father as their lives converge amidst the chaos of total economic collapse and civil war in contemporary America.