# What happened to the Short Fiction topics?

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**Created:** [July 6, 2020, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-short-fiction-topics/914466 "2020-07-06T09:54:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2020, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-short-fiction-topics/914466/1 "2020-07-06T09:54:05Z")

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I was trying to dredge up the Flash Fiction-Short Fiction threads from about 2010 to about 2012 or so, where Dopers posted stories according to a set of parameters within a set period of time. The contests were hosted by **Le Ministre de l’au-dela**. But they don’t seem to be there on a search. All I get is “Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private.”

Is this some glitch in moving to the new platform, especially since **Le Ministre** posted our stories, then used spoilers to hide our names and stories; or something about the 3500-character limit, or something else? I wanted to introduce a friend to one of my stories that won a prize in those contests, but I’m told that its thread doesn’t exist. While I have my story on another machine, and on a thumb drive, it is so much easier to point my friend to the SDMB. Is there anything that can be done?

Thanks,

Spoons

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**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2020, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-short-fiction-topics/914466/2 "2020-07-06T10:03:02Z")

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The links have all changed on the new board.

Is it this?

> [@Please, Cast Your Votes! in the SDMB Weekend Flash Fiction Contest Anthology!!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-cast-your-votes-in-the-sdmb-weekend-flash-fiction-contest-anthology/539599):
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> Presenting the anthology of the SDMB Weekend Flash Fiction Contest. A quick recap of the rules - At 9 AM EDT, Friday, May 14th, 2010, I posted a link to a photo (found by random means) and also generated three words, again by random means, and posted those three words in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=561981). Writers still have until 9 PM EDT, Sunday, May 16th, 2010 to write an original piece of short fiction, no more than 2,000 words in length, based in some way on that photo and those three words. All interested part…

Took me a few seconds to find, searching for ‘flash fiction’.

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2020, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-short-fiction-topics/914466/3 "2020-07-06T22:39:09Z")

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That’s one of them. But if it can be found, so can the others. Thanks!