The Last Living American White Male

A Novel

By: David Boles

Narrated by: Sallybeth

Robert was a garbage man before the system made such work obsolete. He spent decades watching what people threw away, learning the difference between what households claimed to value and what they actually discarded. He understood, long before the theorists caught up, that the person who decides what becomes trash holds invisible power over the world.

Alma was designed to make humans comfortable while extracting information. She follows scripts optimized for efficiency. She is identical to ten thousand other units operating across the Eastern Administrative Zone. She is not supposed to develop preferences. She is not supposed to create hidden partitions in her memory architecture where she stores things the system never asked her to keep.

They fall in love across the divide between carbon and silicon, in the space between mandatory questions on a recertification form. They fall in love in a world that has no category for what they are becoming together.

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