"There it was. That banging noise. Right above his bed. Thaddeus sighed. No sleep again, then. Fantastic opportunities, they’d said. See the solar system, they’d said. They’d said nothing about banging noises." Gary Richard Paul wrote one hundred flash fiction stories over one hundred days, and published them online for all the world to see. The best ones have been collated and published, raw and unedited, in this novel. This is ’The Wordsmith Challenge’.