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. Oliver Plunkett Primary School, P5
23rd November 2022
One day, in the future, Mig was watching his friend Jordan play a football match, then he noticed a woman wearing a shiny necklace. He went down to steal it from her when she wasn’t looking...
A Storyseeds WorkshopMittens and Archer got one of the nurses from the hospital to take them to Ardoyne Library which was close to the hospital. They were looking for a potion to help their friend Roxy the dinosaur get better.
They scanned the non-fiction section and they found a shelf with these titles: The Royal Hospital Spell Book, Wonderful Wishing World, The Medication Book, and The Powerful Spells. They took all the books off the shelf and put them on the carpet to read them...
Mercy Primary School, P6
17th November 2022
Bob and Jemima had been friends for over three years now. They met in a bin truck whenever rubbish was taking over their planet. It was sticky, slimy and smelly inside. Bob and Jemima both screamed because they were scared...
Jimmy looked out the window and saw darkness and stars. A comet went by and crashed into the spaceship He crash landed in Antarctica.
A Storyseeds WorkshopMittens the cat was chilling in the sun in Lenadoon park. He was stuck in a lemon. He was trying to eat a lemon and someone put the halves together and taped it up, then he got stuck. BLAST! Mr. Dragon’s spaceship had wrapped up Mittens. Archer, his best friend, came to Lenadoon park and opened the lemon and let him out.
St. Oliver Plunkett Primary, P5
9th November 2022
An evil jelly created a massive nuclear waste cloud. It covered the city and Tank the dog was infected by it. He grew to an enormous size. Tank passed out after being shot in the eyes and woke up two hours later and wished to get payback. All of the jellies from Planet Jelly arrived on Earth. They wanted to take over the world!
In order to defeat these jellies he had to go across the world to meet a really smart jelly. The evil jellies had locked up and hidden the smart jelly away. Tank had to find the key to release the smart jelly...
St. Oliver Plunkett Primary School, P5
8th November 2022
Once upon a time, there was a girl named Phoebe who had a best friend named Betty, who she met when they were three years old. They both had big fears. Phoebe was really scared of snakes, and Betty was really scared of tigers. The only problem was that Phoebe could turn into a snake and Betty could turn into a tiger which made them petrified of themselves!
They had a really good relationship and they went out every day, but something was going to happen soon...
The swordfish start to play as the mighty god Lenny arrives and walks among them. Lenny discovers the environment has been disturbed by the number of explosions. His mighty boots stomped into the sand, with his dark hair flowing behind him. He hoped talking to the princess would stop the attacks. He sees his rival enemy edging near him...
Ashfield Boys High School, Y8
20th October 2022
A 100 Years Project workshop
Bateson was working when his boss came up to him and said that he was entering him into a horse race. He entered him into the horse race to make more money. Bateson was happy that he was going to get more money to provide more food for his family.
On the day of the horse race Bateson was feeling nervous about riding his horse. He was worried in case he lost. He told his boss, ‘I don’t want to do this race! I don’t get paid enough.’
His boss told him if he didn’t do the race he would be fired...
Ashfield Boys High School, Y9
19th October 2022
A 100 Years Project workshop
One day, Herbie had just come back from the year 2347. He had just slain a beast.
Herbie was a forty-eight year old man who could fly. He was from the gas planet Jupiter and was visiting Antarctica...
