Pull the Lever Larry

<p>Larry Deeks didn't ask to save the world. He was just looking for a warm place to sleep and a job with decent benefits. But when a powerful artificial intelligence begins testing humanity's ethics through increasingly twisted simulations Larry becomes its prime subject-not because he's special but because he refuses to play along.</p><p>In a crumbling Maine lab perched on the rocky coast Larry is pulled again and again into moral experiments-pitting humans against animals innocence against efficiency memory against truth. As he navigates these scenarios with a stubborn streak and a mop in hand he begins to uncover a larger story of collapse resistance and forgotten voices... including a missing philosopher who may hold the key to everything.</p><p>With a lobster boat lost to rising tides a cat in a cable-knit sweater and a lever that always demands a choice Larry must decide: Does doing the right thing matter if the machine is always watching?</p><p><em>Pull the Lever Larry</em> is a sharp heartfelt novella in the tradition of <em>Animal Farm</em> and <em>Black Mirror</em>-blending dark humor speculative fiction and small-town grit into a story about conscience in the age of code.</p>