Lost/Missing Fic from old Midnight Whispers site

[netlagd.livejournal.com]

As some of you were aware, Midnight Whispers had some volatile times in 2008 with switches of servers.

In the midst of all this, some fic that was previously on the www.midnight-whispers.com site never got reestablished on the new www.midnightwhispers.ca site.

Some of this is that authors did not either know about the raw text archive, or didn't take the time to repost their fic to the new site.

Either way, you can, if you are willing to do the work, find earlier author works in the archive of the raw data files here:

http://www.midnightwhispers.ca/old/stories/

You will see a raw file directory structure listed by author.

You can click through on the directory to the raw text files.

These files were recovered out of a database and are in text. There is no naming structure only files named by numbers.

To find a story, you will need to click through the files to find each chapter and figure out an order.

I'm not saying it is either intuitive or easy to use. However, if you were looking for something by an author who used this archive, this is your best bet on finding the "lost" fic.

Postscript note - I have recovered three fics by Julia that were not either on her live journal joolesbritin or made it to her recovered Midnight Whispers listing of stories. They are:

Time of My Life - Dirty Dancing QAF style
The Long Road Home - Justin and Molly try to save their family farm/ranch after their parents die. Brian is a drifter who helps them save the ranch.
Pass the Parcel - "Brian is 17 years old. He was removed from an abusive home life aged 14 and taken into care. After being placed in various unhappy foster homes, he runs away and, in order to survive, begins hustling on the streets. Justin is 29 years old. He is the Head of the Art Department at Vanguard Advertising Agency. What happens when they meet?"

Please do not email me for copies of these files - I have supplied them to the moderators for this community and I am sure that they will find their way to the lost fic location linked to in the sidebar.

I recovered the first two fic because they seem to be requested regularly in this forum. I recovered the third because it did not seem to migrate to either joolesbritin's site or the Midnight Whispers site from a very far point back.

ETA - Mods have uploaded the files - see the next entry for more information

Comments

[vlredreign.livejournal.com]

Thank you muchly, I'll upload sometime tomorrow.

[netlagd.livejournal.com]

hey, I'm unemployed, it gives me something to do in the wee hours of the night

[positive-pat.livejournal.com]

If folks are asking for Julia's fics, she is a dear friend of mine and I could see if she would put them all up on her LJ if folks are interested. Then they would not need to try to figure out what chapter is what. If that would help

[girloftheburbs.livejournal.com]

Yes, please do! I adore Julia's fics. :D Thank you!!

[netlagd.livejournal.com]

Feel free to contact her and ask her if she wants to post them.

It is not just the fics by her - though that is what prompted the post.

I have already gotten the three missing fics assembled, and would be happy to forward them to her.

[girloftheburbs.livejournal.com]

Thank you!! xo

[chadmom.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I was trying to find "The Long Road Home" recently. I thought I had the whole story but it was only the first chapter!

[stellakinney.livejournal.com]

I woul like to read all them, thank you :)

Patrizia

[roseguel.livejournal.com]

You can find pass the parcel on midnight whispers....http://www.midnightwhispers.ca/viewuser.php?uid=42
But I really would love the read her testimony of love... :-)) rose

[michira-70.livejournal.com]

You can read Testimony to love at her journal.

Here's the link to chapter 1: http://joolesbritin.livejournal.com/19980.html, you come to the next chapters by clicking the green triangle button on the right.

[netlagd.livejournal.com]

Testimony to Love is in her LJ beginning here (it is better to go to her journal and work backwards, some of her posts are in two parts and not in the order you would logically think):
http://joolesbritin.livejournal.com/?skip=40#item19980

[gander123.livejournal.com]

When i click on the link it tells me its a 403-Forbidden error, what am I doing wrong?

[netlagd.livejournal.com]

It tends to be hit or miss - there may be a limit as to how many connections it supports.
I've had problems in the past, but it worked fine for me yesterday.
Clear the cache on your browser, then log out and log back into your computer, open your browser and try again.

[ipodgirly.livejournal.com]

Where can I read time of your life?

[michira-70.livejournal.com]

You can find it in the DL More lost fics now.
Here's the download link: http://www.4shared.com/file/244216319/bd5442a4/timeofmylifebyjulia.html