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An independent literary imprint

The story
is still ours.

Fiction made with intention. Books that trust their readers. Stories worth the time it takes to feel them.

Digital Placebo / Literature, without the machinery on display.

Don Quixote riding Rocinante toward the setting sun, with Sancho Panza following on a donkey
01 / The impossible is still worth imagining.
01Our first release

First Love

Two people know how to speak to machines. Being understood by each other is another matter.

A novella in ten scenes. Meet the characters in the opening chapter, then enter the story at its own pace.

Read the opening scene
A rain-wet street outside a bookstore at dusk: a small delivery machine stuck on the paving stones, a man and a woman stopping beside it.
First LoveNovellaScott Silva

A book has a voice.
It should belong to someone.

We publish stories made from the imagination and judgment of people. Tools may help with the work. They do not get the final word.

About Digital Placebo

The work is
in the choices.

A sentence is revised because the author knows what it must carry, not because a machine knows what comes next.

Our Process

An illustrative edit Fictional example, not a manuscript draft

The room was quiet. The room made silence feel deliberate.

An imagined revision, chosen by a person.