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Mike Thorn

mikethornwrites.com · a site they built themselves

Read them at mikethornwrites.com → The writing is on their site. This page is what the index measured.

Mike Thorn publishes essays about books & reading and film at mikethornwrites.com, a site they built themselves. Last published September 2026, still publishing this year. Not in the top million domains: the big engines have never ranked it.

10 dated posts since 2026unfound by the big engines

Posts per month, from their own dated linksFebruary 2026 to September 2026

JFMAMJJASOND20262026-02: 12026-03: 22026-04: 12026-05: 12026-06: 12026-07: 12026-09: 3
fewermorepeak: 3 in September 2026

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

102026

2026 is January to October.

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 0

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 0, 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
13 captured
Front page
149 KB, 26 scripts, 23 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Built with
a static generator
Trackers
none
Links out
11 other writers in the index, 106 other sites, 18 platforms
Found
2026-09-11, by following another writer's link

Words they use that almost nobody else in the index does

craftwork2bick1dania1episode372idriss1beirne1mcfadzean1cassidy16wehunt2mangler2stephen237cosmopolis1refn2vinegar11

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.

Their neighbourhood

ConsuLeo - CienciacpcwritesHellnotesKendall Reviews…'124 sites outside the indexMike Thorn
in the indexoutside itthis writer

They link to ConsuLeo - Ciencia ficción, fantasía y terror, cpcwrites, Hellnotes, Kendall Reviews…', Lovecraft eZine, Sci Fi and Fantasy Reviewer and 5 more.

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: unfound by the big engines · still publishing · essays, stories, or poems

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.
  • 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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