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The BookPressed 100-Word Fantasy Challenge For our Intermediate authors Only

📝 Min 50 · Max 100 words
100-Word Intermediate Fantasy Challenge
Step through the portal and show us what your imagination can truly create. We're looking for fantasy stories that transport the reader into another world through strong storytelling, vivid imagery, and confident writing. Whether your tale is heroic or haunting, whimsical or dark, every word should have purpose.
Bring us dragons with impossible choices. Ancient kingdoms hiding secrets. Forgotten magic. Mythical creatures. Or create something entirely your own.
In just 100 words, make us believe your world exists.

What the writer should achieve:
✨ Strong storytelling
✨ Vivid imagery
✨ Creative, original fantasy
✨ A complete story in exactly 100 words 

What the Voter will be looking for:
~Did the story engage me?
~Was the writing polished? 
~Did every word have a purpose? 
~Did the ending satisfy me?
~Did the writer make the most of 100 words?
🏆 Vote for the story that best demonstrates the craft of writing.
 


🏆 Prizes

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First place
🏆 Win a BookPressed coffee mug... your keyboard has suffered enough.
☕ Guaranteed to hold coffee, tea, or the tears from your first draft.
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Strange Reward

by BoJo
Zana, a young homeless woman, walks slowly, clutching her rumbling stomach, not daring to acknowledge the sandwich in her vest pocket. She spots an old man lying between the dumpsters. With a sigh she bends down "can I help you?" "Food?" He asks weakly. She pulls out her sandwich, giving it to him. He takes it. "What can I do for you?" Zana chuckles. "Send me somewhere... different." A portal opens, moments later sucking Zana through. Then: Zana's in a metallic room, looking out a window at a planet. A shocked, handsome man staring at her. "Well, that's definitely different."
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