The Longest Story Ever Told

People all over Northern Ireland have added a few lines to our Longest Story Ever Told which is travelling from festivals to pop-ups, to open days, to corporate days. If your organisation is interested in having a Longest Story station at an event, please get in touch, or you can pop in to our creative writing centre in Connswater to add a line or two yourself.

Here is some of the story so far......

The Longest Story Ever Told

Chapter 1: RAG Week, QUBSU, 8th March 2023

  • It was a dark and stormy night outside the Lanyon Building
  • When 2 men stumbled across the road
  • They were seeking equal rights for all when...
  • When they approached by...
  • Two other men, determined to stop them...
  • With the force of a whole army of solidiers and so the dance battle commenced...
  • They popped and locked for equality...
  • ‘Put the kettle on!’ shouted one man, mid mashed-potato
  • ‘I shall bring this foolishness to an close!’ yelled a woman for justice, ‘with my signature move!’
  • The death drop! SHANTAY YOU STAY!
  • They proceded to dance in front of everyone
  • Be like a family to your friends, a friend to strangers, & a stranger to your enemies
  • When, suddenly, a mysterious woman appeared...

 

Chapter 2: Belfast City Council Lord Mayor's Day, 1, 2023

  • And she says ‘STOP! You silly men! You’re not supposed to be out on the streets this late! It’s almost your bedtime, boys!’
  • Suitably admonished, they retreated to the relative safety of Botanic Gardens. Or so they thought...
  • For hidden in the confines of the tropical ravine lived the monster Belguine, from another dimension, lying in wait for his next victim. One of the boys went in...
  • The monster was starting a vegetarian lifestyle this day. And when Belguine saw the boy coming in she got very hungry.
  • Belguine saw a big monster it looked like a female it was white and black.
  • The boys decided to touch her, to see what she felt like – she was fluffy like a lion, but she was really scary! They started to fight each other...
  • Jitterbug arrived on this hovercraft and immediately was perturbed! Not by the monster’s reaction, but by the sudden change in temperature! His hovercat was exhausted and his day was done.
  • But suddenly to Jitterbug’s relief a cow came out of nowhere. He would now live to see his daughter’s talent show...he really didn't want to!
  • He went to the talent show. And there was a monster setting the place on fire. People were putting the fire out but...
  • Monster run away and fly fly fly and reach to India and in India he giht with more bigger monster
  • They all fight and then an orger comes they all kill it
  • Migick man bring orger back to life and they fight again
  • When monster gets angry and beheads a random person
  • They kill the monster and the people die too they all dead
  • The magic man returns and brings the people back to life!
  • However, now they are no longer human and have beautiful fairy wings
  • The wings were rainbow
  • Took off with our wings where we met a magical unicorn being rode by a Princess called Grace and her friend Jessy.
  • But things turned dark, out of the clouds came thunder, a fire breathing dragon. What would it do next?
  • He flew to Hati and he died of too much sneezing and dancing what happened. He then became a ghost and then went to Rainbow Factory to play with the Rainbow Factory Ghost.
  • He went to Primark and got fake eyelashes to look really cute.
  • He became known as Belfast’s greatest drag ghost superstar, adored by everyone
  • He goes on RuPaul’s Drag Race and wins before going to Tescos for ice cream
  • The dragon got chocolate ice cream with sprinkles. The dragon saw a bunny and a fox...
  • And saw Olivia Rodrigo with a goat floating above her head and Jason Derulo and Kim Kardashian
  • And they saw a giant duck doing the hocky pocky and he turned himself around

 

Chapter 3: NIMHAF Pencil Portal, 13th May 2023

  • And saw a giant cloud of glittery smoke! Just then, he heard a big BANG and the dust cleared to reveal...
  • Another BANG, then another BANG and another (four hours later) WOO! There was the ghost of...ELVIS
  • The ghost then turned everyone into a sloth
  • The sloths moved at a glacial pace toward a very comfortable looking tree. Until the tree started to talk...
  • The tree is monster wait it is not tired good night bey

 

Chapter 4: NIMHAF Pencil Portal, 14th May 2023

  • The tree loves to dance all night & being tired means his moves are...
  • SICK, he can tell the sloths were amazed!
  • He was proud that he was very good at dancing
  • All of a sudden, there was a puff of smoke and an eerie laugh in the distance...
  • There was a very tall figure in the distance and he said...
  • MOOOOO said the figure
  • Then the farmer greeted all of his cow friends
  • Suddenly overhead appeared the biggest UFO ever seen with a ZAP a green beam appeared over the farmer’s head
  • It slowly lifted up the farmer and when he got lifted up it slowly hovered towards a cow and flew a cow into the air
  • Whilst the cow was flying suddenly a witch appeared with an enormous wart on her nose. She said ‘I’ll get you my pretty, and your massive cow too!’ to the farmer. It was mad...

 

Chapter 5: East Side Arts Festival, 5th August 2023

Chapter 6: Connswater, 10th August 2023

Chapter 7: Connswater, 24th August 2023

Chapter 8: Connswater, 2nd September 2023

Chapter 9: Connswater, 9th September 2023

  • In the woods, Bigfoot said to the three girls “How many teeth have you?” in a very angry voice.
  • And the girls replied, “That’s a very stupid question! But a more sensible question we would like to ask you is, “Why are you so angry?”
  • I am very hungry, “ cried Bigfoot. “I would like some bananas.” (Michael)
  • So the three girls went to the jungle to find Bigfoot some bananas. (logan)
  • Isabelle said, “I see Bananas, there, floating in the river!” (Emily)
  • Minnie found a yellow boat made of plastic with a motor. (issac)
  • The three girls got into the boat and set off when suddenly they hit a tree and began to sink…” (Aoife)
  • Santa came along to save them, giving them a new sail boat with yellow sails as an early Christmas present.(Kathleen O’Donnell)
  • They set sail and avoided the tree, but they saw monkeys stealing the bananas. (leanne)
  • Zara, who was the one with a missing tooth called Bigfoot to help by knocking on a tree. It sounded like a drum. Bigfoot came to the rescue and scared the monkeys away. (zara)
  • But the bananas had floated downriver towards a waterfall… that had crocodiles at the base! (david)
  • The girls jumped down the waterfall fast than the precious bananas. The bananas fell onto theirs and then into their hands. The crocodiles started swimming towards them because now they wanted the bananas too and the girls rushed to the shore and started running around in circles in panic (Rhianna)
  • Bigfoot’s hanger took over and he began a banana frenzy. The three girls, Isabelle, Minnie and Zara watched in horror as he demolished the poor bananas. (Frank)
  • Whose little banana voices were squealing “Aagh!” There crocodiles were also frozen in horror, their mouths agape with their sharp teeth gleaming. They whimpered… (Biddy)
  • Three new girls showed up, clambering down from high up in a tree, and spread their wings.
  • “Hi, I’m Lilli,” said the first.
  • “I’m Poppy,” said the second.
  • “I’m Daisy,” said the third. “We are the tree fairies. We saw what happened with the bananas and we would like to magically make some more.
  • Poppy waved a wand and shouted “Oops!” There were thousands of apples instead, falling from the trees.
  • “We’d better run!” said Lilli.
  • “Follow me!” shouted Daisy and the whole crowd including the crocodiles followed her into the forest. (Ann and Peter)

  • Rosemary O’kane 

  • Zara, Minnie, Isabelle, and Poppy, Lilli and Daisy went into the forest. Poppy saw what looked like an inverted cowpat. Zara bent down and smelt it and said “That’s no cowpat!”
  •  Minnie stuck her finger in it and said “That’s no cowpat!!”
  •  Isabelle put her foot in and squealed, “That’s no cowpat!!!”
  • Lili and Daisy heard something behind them, and just as they were about to follow the trail they heard a thud, followed by another thud…

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  • A yellow tiger popped up from a bush and it was the size of an elephant!
  • The big yellow tiger starts tumbling and flipping saying “I can’t see!”
  • The tiger was playing hide and seek with a banana the size of a kangaroo!
  • Thankfully he bumped into his friend Harry the tapdancing Hippo!
  • They went to the beach and met their friend Jeremy the Jellyfish.
  • A butterfly fluttered by J
  • Momo went too Gymnastics. (Poppie)
  • They made sandcastles and met someone called Rawra and it was a skeleton that dances (Ellie)
  • Then they all went and got ice cream and some got sorbet because they have allergies except for lemon because lemon is gross.
  • After they went home to watch a movie.
  • They watched Elemental and they magically turned into elements!
  • Meanwhile Ellie and Poppie went to space and said hello to their alien friends called Isaac and Jay
  • In a whole different world the BFG took Peter to the giant hand with the Golden wheelchair that had arms and legs.
  • Meanwhile there was mean opposites of everyone coming for them. (Daniela)
  • Back in the Giant Land, Peter the monkey was scared he was up in the trees and BOOOM crash!
  • Peter was stuck in the middle of the tree and a giant crushed him with his big foot, and the giant threw him into a muddy puddle!
  • In the puddle he saw a talking frog who told him that he is a magician.

Chapter 12: QUB Wellbeing Fair, 25th October 2023

  • I’m not a magician, I’m a monkey!”
  • “A magic monkey”
  • Peter paused.
  • “I think this puddle is messing with my head.”
  • “Get out of the puddle then” said mentor monkey who appeared in a nearby tree. He throws a ladder down for the magician monkey to climb up the tree.
  • On the way up, magician monkey finds all wonderful ants going up and supporting him.
  • The monkey raised his hand to touch the ants. Suddenly, the ant turned into a butterfly.
  • A pair of wings grew out of the monkey. Monkey smiled, and continued his journey.
  • Helping and seeing each other grow, learning together.
  • Helping monkey for the greater good.
  • In the sky, Peter the monkey met a graceful bird. “Oh, small monkey” said the bird “why do you look so sad?” Peter responded “Why I do not know who or what I am supposed to be, a mase, a monkey, a mere fantasy?”
  • “Maybe you’re not supposed to be anything little monkey. The joy is discovering what you want to be.” The little bird smiled and the monkey waved.
  • Meanwhile, in another part of the jungle… the descending clouds went down the mountains as the sun sets and Maggy says to Henry “this is it…”
  • “This is what mum was looking for. This is why she got lost in this forest. This… is why I’m here. To bring her back home.”
  • “Landed on a lovely place which is 1300 miles away from my home country was actually lost but glad I found myself”
  • So, she sees a rabbit hole which seems to be emitting radiant light, and it was very inviting to no go see it. So, as she bends down and looks at it a bright light consumes her whole being!”
  • She then becomes in another world where she meets the mad hatter and a girl called Alice who also fell down the hole.
  • They went to the Hill of Kintullagh – a place where no one returns.
  • Just pray, thought the Maggy and Alice.
  • They put on their protective hazmat suits and run along the tunnel to the other side…

Chapter 13: Connswater, 30th October 2023

  • They ran really really fast to the forest. (Charley)
  • Maggie and Alice slipped on a banana peel and fell a hidden concrete structure, buried in the forest.
  • Alice tripped and cut her head. Maggie tried to get a plaster for Alice, from a mysterious house that had a gold door.
  • Maggie and Alice are stuck. Alice banged on the door “I NEED HELP!!” said Alice (Ella)
  • A 12-foot tall and mysterious man answered the door. He has a really long beard and he was called Mark. (Phoebe)
  • The tall man Mark answers grumpy “What do you want?” (Evie)
  • Alice, begging for help says “I need somewhere to live.” (Carter)
  • “You can stay here but you have to do all my house work” He was still really grumpy. (Nathan)
  • “Mum, you work so hard let me help you. Can I have some help?” (Mum/Claire and Theo)
  • It was Halloween Night and the girls were scared. There was a full moon out and they could hear werewolves, Howling “wooooooo…” Alice and Maggie hid behind the trees. (Rebekah and Rohan)
  • Thunder Struck! It hit one of the trees and it fell all leaves blew off the trees in the forest. The werewolves could see the girls. (Khloe)
  • The wolf came out and scared them. Alice and Maggie shouted “HELP!”(Rosa)
  • The owl in the tree hooted, “TWIT TWOO” (Ari Leo)
  • The owl could talk and said… (Finn)
  • “HAHAHAH” laughed the owl (Harley)
  • They heard foot steps. They thought they has toe jam. (Anna)
  • They saw a Witch and they ran and shouted “There’s a WITCH!!!” (Lamar)
  • Maggie and Alice call the police and they come in a plane and save them (alex)
  • As it came close they saw that the plane wasn actually a bird. (freya)
  • The bird was a huge robin that could talk, he made the witch go away by pecking her.
  • The witch said, "Ow," in an angry voice and ran away back to her house. The house was tall and weird (Elias and Odhran)
  • Just as big as a stilt walker's house. The rug was in a jug in a bed.  (Leonie)
  • Newt asked the time that it was (ivy)
  • Then three children named Delphine, Donny and Ponty were heading towards a path and they found a street. (daisy)
  • They fell down a big drop and they fell into a cave (Ruadhen)