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Chel Owens

chelowens.com · a site they built themselves

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Chel Owens publishes short stories about grief & illness and technology at chelowens.com, a site they built themselves. Last published May 2026, still publishing this year. Vouched for by 1 other writer in the index.

295 dated posts since 20181 writer vouch

Posts per month, from their own dated linksJune 2018 to May 2026

JFMAMJJASOND20182018-06: 120192019-01: 412019-02: 32019-03: 42019-04: 42019-05: 220232023-05: 120252025-03: 12025-06: 12025-08: 12025-10: 12025-12: 7820262026-01: 672026-02: 482026-05: 42
fewermorepeak: 78 in December 2025

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

12018542019120238220251572026

2026 is January to October.

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 7

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 7, 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
184 KB, 26 scripts, 10 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Built with
a static generator
Trackers
none
Links out
5 other writers in the index, 21 other sites, 35 platforms
Found
2026-09-16, by following another writer's link

Words they use that almost nobody else in the index does

contest207terrible218owen57winner451plus432vday7poetry1724midwinter11limerick36continue712belated34bleak42blogiversary2verse299

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

Valley Of The TrolWriting and MartiaJohn W. HowelliMcreativeMichaelsfishbowl56 sites outside the indexChel Owens
in the indexoutside itthis writer

They link to Writing and Martial Arts, John W. Howell, iMcreative, Michaelsfishbowl, Myths of the Mirror.

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: still publishing · essays, stories, or poems · vouched by one other writer

How the machine sees this site

  • Ranked about 854,918 in the top million domains.
  • 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.

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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