Had an interesting thing happen recently.
Having lurked and done quizzes and games for a few years now, thought I might make an attempt at contributing some single questions before attempting to make a quiz.

Popped a question in. Was rejected by editor because they'd just approved a similar one. Minor disappointment but otherwise no problem. I got beaten to the punch and submitted meekly enough to that.

Thought of a new question no one had asked. Put it in. Was quite happy with it. About a week passed with no review. That's ok. Editors might be in Tahiti. I wish I was.
But at that point my submission disappeared without a trace. I'm kind of assuming it was rejected, but I didn't receive an email or message indicating this, nor if adjustment was needed, more information, less information, whatever it may have been.
How would I go about determining the fate of my lost submission?
Can these even be rejected without some kind of notification?
If not, is there an issue with questions disappearing mysteriously if they wait for an extended time for review?
As it was only my second attempt, I don't have enough background knowledge to answer. Any thoughts?

We don't always send a note if we delete a single question submission, but questions are not often deleted out of hand, with no prior back and forth, unless they are truly terrible. Judging by your note here, you can write an English sentence, so that was probably not the problem.

Is there a possibility that the question was accepted and you're just looking in the wrong place? The way single questions are set up, we don't send an "accept" note, the way we do with quizzes.

Go check your single questions page and see if there is anything under the "My Contributions: Not Yet Rated" link. Or "My Contributions: All Accepted Contributions".

Thanks agony,

Yeah, turned out it was just my inexperience with where to look - it was sitting in the recently rejected submissions under "Not Yet Rated", with a suggestion for improvement to qualify for acceptance.

Thanks for clearing that up for me.

I originally found that link myself through exactly the same process - "Hey, what happened to my question?"

I ate it. Sorry, I was hungry.

-Nam