Literature & Writing
874 sites
https://rainstormsinjuly.co/
Rainstorms in July is a creative writing site featuring original novels and short stories by the author of the same name, spanning horror, fantasy, southern gothic, and magical realism. The site tempts visitors with hidden secret pages to discover alongside its collection of ghost stories, fairy tales, and folklore-inspired fiction.
https://moonside-inn.neocities.org/
Moonside Inn is a cozy personal page with a cottage-in-the-forest aesthetic, featuring sections for books, games, music, recipes, shrines, and a weekly log of the creator's current reads, listens, and watches. The warm, tea-and-pixel-art atmosphere and eclectic mix of media interests make it a charming little corner of the indie web.
http://1f300.com/
Stanley Lieber's personal site hosts his novel titled '🌀', available in print and PDF formats with an ISBN, spanning three books filled with eccentrically titled chapters. The site also links to software repositories, documentation archives, and related projects under the cat-v.org umbrella, giving it a distinctly hacker-literary feel.
https://joppiesaus.neocities.org/
Joppiesaus's eclectic personal corner of the web features a journal, original art, recipes, dream logs, and a story section alongside a curated list of favorite Neocities neighbors. The site has a charmingly chaotic, handcrafted old-web energy with quirky humor, random text fragments, and a genuinely playful voice throughout.
https://popagandhi.com/
Popagandhi is a long-running personal blog by a Southeast Asian expat living in the U.S., covering life reflections, travel, cycling, food, coding, and cultural identity with candid and thoughtful prose. With 39 pages of archives dating back to 2003, it offers a rich record of one person's evolving life across continents, relationships, and interests.
https://cornybunbun.neocities.org/
Peppercorn's hub links to their fanfictions and original writings hosted on AO3 and social media, serving as a stable home base when platforms inevitably fail. The creator specializes in dark, 'dead dove' content and uses this minimal page to keep readers connected to their work.
https://smallpancakes.nekoweb.org/
Smallpancakes is a cozy personal blog by a creator who writes about food, travel, web development journeys, and everyday life, hosted on Nekoweb with a warm, handcrafted aesthetic. The site features a blogroll, webrings, guestbook, and a changelog that reflects an active and engaged indie web community participant.
https://sekh-net.nekoweb.org/
Sekh-net is a creative worldbuilding project presenting a fictional setting called Sekharu as if it were real, complete with weather reports, upcoming events, community forums, and lore about its inhabitants. The site mimics the format of a vintage community news portal for an invented culture, making it a fascinating piece of interactive speculative fiction.
https://blueys-site.neocities.org/
Blue's personal corner of the web features a mix of personal interests, original artwork, and links to their books, all presented in a charming retro-web aesthetic. The site includes shrines, adopted pixels, and webring memberships, making it a cozy creative hub for a budding author and artist.
https://justinjackson.ca/words.html
Justin Jackson's 'Words' is a minimalist essay celebrating the raw power of plain text on the web, arguing that simple words connect people across locations, devices, and time zones more effectively than any fancy design. The page has been translated into dozens of languages by volunteers worldwide, a testament to how widely its message about the simplicity and beauty of the web resonated.