Young Writers Afterschool Club
Seamus Heaney Homeplace, Bellaghy
1st session 31st May 2022
Jimmy Bob and Jimmy Jo were aliens from Gibberish World. They had round heads like pizzas, three eyes and five BILLION ears. They had fifty legs and a stomach with massive eyeballs and a big mouth.
One day, Jimmy Bob and Jimmy Jo went out to play football. They were playing in the swimming pool which was green. Everybody else wanted to play basketball except for Jimmy Bob and Jimmy Jo. Their friends realised they couldn’t play basketball because they didn’t have a hoop to shoot it into.
A bit like Earth, everyone had to do a test to learn how to control a spaceship. Jimmy John, Jimmy Bob and Jimmy Jo’s daddy, had the spaceship licence for their family spaceship. One day, Jimmy John went home crying because he’d crashed the spaceship. It had vanished!
Jimmy John felt shocked and sad. He was a bit quieter than normal.
“Why are you so quiet?” asked Jimmy Jenny, Jimmy Bob and Jimmy Jo’s mum.
“Cheese and crackers! I’ve crashed the spaceship,” said Jimmy John, tripping over a mysterious person…
