Stories designed to be experienced

Not a document. A journey.

A ScrollStory is what happens when you treat a webpage not as a document but as a designed experience. As readers scroll, backgrounds shift, images emerge, and text appears in rhythm with the narrative. The design decisions—pacing, scale, visual rhythm, contrast—shape how your audience encounters your argument. It’s not just reading. It’s moving through a story.

ScrollStories are built on the same open-source platform as all our websites, which means your story, your images, and your design choices live in files you own—not locked inside a proprietary database. They work on any device, cost nothing to host, and will still be online years from now.

You don’t need to be a designer or a developer to build one. If you can write in Markdown and choose images that matter, you can create a ScrollStory. We provide the templates, you bring the narrative, and AI helps smooth over technical bumps.

Why Amaranth?

From Greek mythology to Aztec sacred rituals to modern superweeds, the amaranth plant embodies the contradictions at the heart of digital humanities work.

Mesa Vista Hall

This chapter explores the ceremonial and religious aspects of food in Viking society, examining feasts, sacrificial offerings, and mythological references to food and drink in Norse texts.

Sugar, Emeralds, and Unicorn Horn

In the spring of 1375, Matha d'Armagnac, the Duchess of Girona, drank a solution made with pulverized emeralds as a key ingredient. If the gemstones worked as predicted by the apothecary, Matha's pregnancy would result in the birth of a strong boy.