Topic: Missing story

I wrote a story for the Mythical Creature contes back in 2021, but it is not listed in my portfolio or the short list of entries for the contest. It has also disappeared from my home computer. If someone could check the contest entries back then and see if they might have a longer list, I would appreciate it. The story was about a modern-day Medusa, but I do not remember the title but am fairly sure Medusa was not a part of the title. I was trying to find it because my daughter dressed as Medusa for Halloween, and I thought she might enjoy the story. Thanks in advance for any help. Take care. Vern

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Re: Missing story

Hi Vern. Looking back at my received inline reviews for that year, I have none after April 1, 2021 until the system was restored in late 2023. And the contest ended April 30 of 2021, so the Great Hiccup caused the loss of everything sometime after April 1.

Sorry.

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Re: Missing story

Here's something from "The Wayback Machine" showing the entries in the contest from march 03, 2021. I don't see your story there, Vern. You can use the basic URL (web.archive.org) and do some searching for saves from thenextbigwriter.com and see if you can find it. The interface is a bit touchy, and you get a lot of "network errors" but you can keep trying and eventually get the page you're looking for.

http://web.archive.org/web/202103032110 … Contest-22

This is NOT a live site, so DO NOT try to log in.

Bill

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Re: Missing story

Apparently, more glitches going on since I tried to reply with the quote button but it didn't take. At any rate, I had tried the contest entries earlier but hoped someone else might have more entries listed than I found, but evidently not. Thanks to all for the feedback and I guess my story has been turned to stone by Medusa and sunk to the bottom of the cyber lake. Take care. Vern

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