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.
Bobby was never an ordinary child. He knew he had powers in him. He was born in Dublin in 2003 on a cloudy wet day. His parents never let him go to school because they were afraid other people would find out about his powers...
Once there was a dog called Nanny who had six puppies. One puppy was called Fluffball and he was the smallest dog of the litter. He was different to the other dogs because his fur was fluffier and his eyes were bigger.
Stendhal Festival of Art, Festival Words August 13th 2016
One day, Kitty the cat woke up. Kitty was white and the end of her tail was multi-coloured. She decided to go to the pet centre which was next door to her house. She needed to get more cat food...
Once upon a time, there was a giant called Lucy. She had blonde hair with a pink bow and big blue eyes. She wore a white dress with flowers on it and blue high heels with bows on the heels.
Once upon a time there was a sad, circular head. He was trying to knock on the door of a house but it was kind of hard because he was only a head. The owner came out and looked around, but he couldn’t see anything. Then he looked down and he saw this head. The man looked like he wanted to ask a question in class – he was so confused...
Once upon a time there was an octopus named Cubie. He lived in the ocean with his turtle friend and his fish friend. One day they went into an ocean cave and found out that it was a death hazard. They put on their armour and went into the deep dark cave…
Three thousand years ago, in ancient Egypt, there was a soda can named Omar.
Omar wanted to go back in time to steal Cleopatra’s cat, Cleopawtra. Cats were Omar’s favourite animal, especially black cats. Cleopawtra was a black cat with a grey body and gold painted face...
