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.
St Patrick's College, Maghera, Year 10
1st April 2025
A long time ago, in the city of Salty Springs, there was a friend group of three characters. These three friends were Tim Cheese, John Pork, and Simon Claw. One day, Tim Cheese was out for a walk to the shops when John Pork suddenly punched him and Tim fell to the ground.
Harding Memorial Integrated Primary School, P3
27th March 2025
Joe was eating breakfast. He was having waffles in his treehouse, because he was no ordinary monkey.
He was a purple, flying monkey and he didn’t like bananas...
Victoria Primary School, P5
25th March 2025
Once upon a time, there was a little mouse called Jeremy who lived in a mushroom cottage. The cottage roof was a mushroom made of cheese. Jeremy had cheese wings and his cottage smelled like bananas. Jeremy went on his morning walk in the woods and he found a portal...
St. Malachy’s Primary School, P3
11th March 2025
Once upon a time there was a green alien called Greeny. He can jump so high that he can get to Saturn. He has a friend called Foxy, the fox. They like to play with each other...
Victoria Primary School, P5
11th March 2025
Hi, I’m Blobby and I come from Mars! My favourite place that I want to go to is into Canada to see the snowy deserts. I’m very frightened to go to Earth because I think people will probably want to eat me...
Hunterhouse College, Y10
4th March 2025
Let me give you some back story. Jonah was the one always by my side when my son went missing. I had never questioned his loyalty until now. For example, earlier I tried to talk to him about how his family made me feel, and he shut me down...
Lough View Integrated Primary School, P7, at the Seamus Heaney Centre
19th February 2025
One day George the Duck was taking a bath in the sink in the KFD bathrooms. He had some grease and crumbs in his feathers. If you had wrung his feathers, lots of grease would come out like a waterfall...
Poyntzpass Primary School, P5/6
4th February 2025
One morning President Bobby went to the market and he bought a golden toilet, a five star expert plumber, five more Ferraris and six Lamborginis. President Bobby was counting his money while eating chicken nuggets very loudly with a squelching noise. He went to Mcdonalds and tried to buy every Big Mac.
Belfast Met Supported Learners' Book Lovers, at the Seamus Heaney Centre
4th February 2025
It was Bill and Bella’s first year in year 5 at school. Bill and Bella go off to the lake after school to swim every day for fun. This lake slowly but surely turns down into a stream.
Bill swished his way and went a bit too far away from Bella. He ended up in the stream. After two minutes, the stream turned into a massive gushing river. Bill yelled for help, “Somebody help!” Bill was feeling scared....
Lough View Integrated Primary School, P7
29th January 2025
Tyler was eating a lot of Big Macs on his home planet, Inflatable.
“If only I could be a bowling ball!” he thought desperately.
Tyler’s planet was created by an inflater god. Tyler was massive, as big as the moon and he had a superpower. He could inflate himself as big as a sun...
