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Cath Barton

cathbarton.com · a site they built themselves

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Cath Barton publishes novels and short stories about horror & the uncanny at cathbarton.com, a site they built themselves. Last published September 2025. Vouched for by 1 other writer in the index. Not in the top million domains: the big engines have never ranked it.

66 dated posts since 20211 writer vouchunfound by the big engines

Posts per month, from their own dated linksFebruary 2021 to December 2024

JFMAMJJASOND20212021-02: 52021-06: 12021-11: 120222022-01: 12022-02: 32022-03: 12022-07: 12022-08: 12022-12: 520232023-01: 22023-02: 62023-03: 12023-05: 22023-06: 12023-10: 12023-12: 520242024-01: 42024-02: 32024-03: 12024-05: 32024-12: 18
fewermorepeak: 18 in December 2024

Counted from links on their own pages whose paths carry a year and a month. That reaches only the pages the crawl has seen, so early years may be undercounted.

Posts per year

72021122022182023292024

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 9

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 9, from the earliest date the crawl saw. The index reads front pages, so it sees most writers as younger than they are.

Anatomy of the site

Pages
10 captured1 section found
Front page
422 KB, 28 scripts, 82 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Built with
a static generator
Trackers
none
Links out
8 other writers in the index, 47 other sites, 16 platforms
Found
2026-09-16, by following another writer's link

Words they use that almost nobody else in the index does

ricky8competition208december917february964pylon4abergavenny1runnerup15crampon1snapshot68poppy39canon238gargoyle13january978vicarage5

Single words from their own pages, weighted by how rare each is across the 4,473 sites in the index. The small number is how many sites in the index use the word at all. Never a line of the writing.

Who vouches1 writer in the index

1 writer in the index keep a link to this site. What they call it is printed as they wrote it.

Their neighbourhood

Nancy StohlmanFree Flash FictionIdle InkReflection on RetrSpelk63 sites outside the indexCath Barton
in the indexoutside itthis writer

They link to Free Flash Fiction, Idle Ink, Reflection on Retreat Experience Essay Sample, Spelk, The Lonely Crowd, Visual Verse and 2 more.

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: unfound by the big engines · essays, stories, or poems · vouched by one other writer

How the machine sees this site

  • Not in the top million domains. No big engine has ranked it for anything.
  • A feed. Readers can follow the site without a platform in between.
  • Built with a static generator. The pages are files, written once.
  • The copyright line names a person, not a company.
  • No trackers. Nobody is counting the readers.
  • The navigation carries a commercial page or two.

Why search does not surface this site, and why that is the machine's problem.

Readers

Hearts show once a writer reaches three. No account, no cookie.

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