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 Pi
us X College, Year 10
1st May 2025
Ralph was excited as he was on his way to get supplies to build a castle. Ralph played golf with his friends so he wanted to build a castle in Ballinderry for all his friends to live in. But when he got to the store he found out they ran out of bricks...
St Vincent de Paul Primary School, P6
30th April 2025
Chimpanzeeny Bananeeny was running through the forest hungrily looking for bananas.
He heard screaming and he was startled and jumped three inches off the ground...
Victoria Primary School, P5
29th April 2025
Once upon a time there was a giant lily flower and her favourite food was leaves. Her name was Lily and she really wanted to see the outside world, not just inside the jungle. Lily wanted to explore new places and have a friend...
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...
