Literature & Writing
874 sites
https://storiesandnovels.com/
Franz Jørgen Neumann's personal site offers free full-text access to 76 of his published short stories, novellas, novels, and essays, many placed in prestigious literary journals like The Southern Review and Confrontation. Several works carry Pushcart Prize nominations, making this a rare chance to read polished, professionally published literary fiction at no cost.
https://illegible.neocities.org/
A chaotic and charming personal blog by a creator going by Googleplex, featuring daily entries, a fortune generator, a word of the day, and an intentionally illegible aesthetic full of bright colors and playful hostility. The site leans heavily into old-web personality culture with webrings, a music page, and quirky subpages including one dedicated to toothpaste.
https://mantalon.neocities.org/
Mantalon is a Spanish-language personal web built by a creator who shares microblogging, a political essay section called 'Horizontal,' media logs tracking what they watch, read, play, and listen to, plus a physical media collection spanning games, consoles, books, and films. The site spans a wide range of content from casual blog posts to more serious political and philosophical writing, making it a lively and eclectic corner of the indie web.
https://quikscript.net/
A comprehensive resource dedicated to Quikscript, the alternative English writing system developed by Kingsley Read in the 1950s as a successor to Shavian. The site offers a full manual, custom fonts, a Shavian-to-Quikscript converter, Unicode encoding proposals, and guidance for building Quikscript web pages and fonts.
https://cervidaze.me/
Cervidaze is the personal blog and creative home of Reyn, a revival of an earlier blogging project built as a love letter to the indie web and the curious, unmonetized internet of the past. Visitors will find blog posts, essays, a curated media page, and an interests section, all wrapped in a handcrafted site with a music player and thoughtful changelog.
https://thel.wf/
Thel is a small personal blog with a mystical, cosmic-horror-tinged aesthetic, featuring dated chronicles on topics like indie web culture and horror writing. Its poetic welcome message and participation in the Hotline Webring give it a dreamy, old-web community feel.
https://cs.virginia.edu/~robins/quotes.html
Dr. Gabriel Robins, a Computer Science professor at the University of Virginia, has curated an extensive collection of famous, witty, and thought-provoking quotations gathered over many years. The page spans a wide range of voices from Napoleon Bonaparte to Ayn Rand, making it a satisfying browse for lovers of clever and memorable sayings.
https://irradiate.space/
Irradiate Space is the creative hub of Ontploffing Boer and Glowing Skull, featuring original fiction, worldbuilding notes, Gundam-related essays and analysis, and a library of in-universe documents. The site also showcases elaborate costume skull builds with process notes and original webcomics, making it a richly layered creative portfolio across multiple disciplines.
https://p1k3.com/
Running since the 1990s, p1k3 is one of the web's longest-lived personal blogs, written by a thoughtful author who mixes lyrical garden observations, short poetry, political reflections, and everyday life into a distinctive literary voice. Posts range from meditative yard-and-garden reports tracking bees, birds, and raised beds to candid confessional writing about anxiety, aging, and the exhausting state of the world.
https://hoboes.com/Mimsy/Books/mistress-mistresses
Jerry Stratton's book review section covers a wide range of reads, with this page focusing on E.R. Eddison's high-fantasy classic 'Mistress of Mistresses,' offering a thoughtful and enthusiastic analysis of its style and structure. The review digs into Eddison's use of framing devices across the Ouroboros trilogy, making it a valuable stop for fans of classic fantasy literature.