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Words Deferred

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Words Deferred publishes poems and short stories about books & reading, games, mystery & crime and place & nature at wordsdeferred.com, a site they built themselves. Last published September 2026, still publishing this year. Vouched for by 1 other writer in the index. Not in the top million domains: the big engines have never ranked it.

216 dated posts since 20201 writer vouchunfound by the big engines

Posts per month, from their own dated linksDecember 2020 to September 2026

JFMAMJJASOND20202020-12: 320212021-01: 52021-02: 42021-03: 42021-04: 52021-05: 42021-06: 62021-07: 52021-08: 42021-09: 52021-10: 52021-11: 122021-12: 420222022-01: 42022-02: 32022-03: 112022-04: 72022-05: 72022-06: 52022-07: 52022-08: 52022-09: 32022-10: 62022-11: 42022-12: 720232023-01: 82023-02: 72023-03: 72023-04: 72023-05: 62023-06: 102023-07: 62023-08: 22023-09: 12023-12: 220242024-01: 32024-05: 12024-06: 12024-11: 120252025-03: 12025-05: 22025-06: 22025-10: 12025-12: 120262026-07: 72026-08: 52026-09: 2
fewermorepeak: 12 in November 2021

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

320206320216720225620236202472025142026

2026 is January to October.

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 6

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 6, 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
124 KB, 29 scripts, 7 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Built with
a static generator
Trackers
present
Links out
4 other writers in the index, 34 other sites, 7 platforms
Found
2026-09-08, by following another writer's link

Words they use that almost nobody else in the index does

razor25mountain334radically16drabble166september1242december917february964november975january978rumination13writing2555microfiction63april1086outlining16

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

BlogrollEllipsusRocket CatTerriblemindsMeades41 sites outside the indexWords Deferred
in the indexoutside itthis writer

They link to Ellipsus, Rocket Cat, Terribleminds, Meades.

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: unfound by the big engines · still publishing · 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.
  • Some tracking is present.

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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