Welcome to our Library of Stories. Please click on the story title to read Chapter 1.
These are collaborative story openings created by school groups and community groups.
Each participant writes their own Chapter 2.
Stranmillis University College Education students
17th April 2024
It was a warm, dusty day in the outback and Zongo was bounding fast when disaster struck. He heard a grunt and glanced behind him, to stare down the barrel of a gun held by a strange looking creature...
17th April 2024
Starling Revival Legacy Project
A long time ago in a town far away there was a creature that was half man half horse, and his name was Seuss. He has black hair, a goatee, and likes trains, and is neurodiverse . . .
St Mary's Star of the Sea Primary School, P7
17th April 2024
It’s been four years since I lived here, fighting off monsters and protecting our forest. My name is Willow and my best friend was a Husky dog named Robin. He liked to eat monsters and he helped me defeat them. And this is our story…
St Dallan's Primary School, P5
16th April 2024
This is Gerald, the Goblin he wants to be nice but he is really scary. He destroys houses and he looks a wee bit scary. He has a very long nose, sharp teeth, warts and extremely green skin.Gerald is very clumsy, he accidentally hurts people and turns them into stone.
His best friend is Harry. He is a giant gummy bear. Harry tries to help Gerald be nice and inspires him to be kind and help people. Although Gerald is very terrifying he is very funny. Gerald also tries to make friends but everyone is scared of him. Gerald is the size of a skyscraper...
Carrick Primary School, P7
16th April 2024
There was a boy called Jeremy who had a trusting family. . .
New-Bridge Integrated College, Year 9
11th April 2024
It was Ben’s birthday. He had just woken up. He was excited because he was going to do his favourite thing. He was going to conquer another planet...
St Teresa's Primary School, P5
10th April 2024
Once upon a time there was a girl called Alice and everytime she wrote a story it would come true...
Drumragh Integrated College, Year 10
9th April 2024
Once upon a time, in an evil mechanic’s dark lab, a robot was born. This story takes place four years later...
Fane Street Primary School, P7
13th March 2024
My name is Sophia. I’m 21. I have blonde hair and green eyes. I’m a nuclear tester. I live in an apartment with a creepy guy. My husband and my father, who worked together, died in an explosion. I cried and cried a lot. My heart was broken. I have a best friend named Tom but I have a weird feeling about him.
As I was working in my lab, I found an unexpected potion in a beaker that my dad was really fond of. Red like blood and bubbling like magma in water. Then I found a note beside it...
St Patrick's High School, Year 8
12th March 2024
Vincent went back to jail for stealing the tractor; Yoke. The Yoke, is a big time travel machine (in the form of a tractor) that James needs to travel back to 1914 in Berlin, to stop his beloved cousin Vincent from becoming evil...
