Dec Becomes a Hero

Young Writers Afterschool Club
Seamus Heaney Homeplace, Bellaghy
7th June 2022

Chapter 1

Once there was a puppy called Declan who lived in a very dark alley in Bellaghy. When he was only a few weeks old he met Mick the puppy. He loved to play with his best friend Mick the puppy. 

He was playing and he saw a bigger dog and ever since, he was scared of bigger dogs in case he was eaten by one of them. He ran away and then felt guilty for not talking to the dog. 

The big talking dog muttered to himself, “ I wish I had some friends.”

Declan went to the Seamus Heaney Homeplace to the garden and ran around like a mad dog with Mick. The Seamus Heaney homeplace is a calm place where you can read all about Seamus Heaney’s poems. 

Declan went to the Bawn, a black and white building beside Poet’s Corner and he saw a dog in it. The dog ran away from him because he was big and scary. 

Then Dec and Mick went to Muldoon’s and got sausages and ran away to the chippy to get some chips. 

One day, Dec was walking by a park and saw a dog snarling at all the other puppies and hoped that would never happen to him. 

He saw a human and tried to talk to it but he only barked at it. He tried to find out why he couldn’t talk to humans. 

He said to the other dogs, “Have any of yous ever talked to the humans and it only comes out as a bark?”

“We’ve tried but it never works! So you might as well give up!” they said.

Suddenly, he sees a big dog in trouble so he goes to get Mick to help. Mick came running to tell him that one of the dogs had got run over by a lorry carrying big tigers in cupboards…