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.
Ashfield Boys High School, Y10
18th October 2022
A 100 Years Project workshop
“Help! Help! Help us!” The kids were shouting. They had been in the swimming pool when a bad man threw a net over them. He used the net to pull them out of the swimming pool.
Simon Edwards had been sun-bathing next to the pool and he jumped in to try and help the kids, but he fell through the swimming pool time portal...
Donegall Road Primary School, P5
13th October 2022
A 100 Years Project workshop
Thomas was walking with his friends and he saw a shop with a magic pencil. But he didn’t have enough money to buy it so he told his friends to wait outside and he broke in and stole it. There was so much valuable stuff inside that a big alarm went off.
When the alarm went off it alerted the police station.
Thomas was in trouble with the police for running away from them...
Blythefield Primary School, P4
12th October 2022
Once upon a time there was a dalmatian called Charlotte. She was a magic dog! Their best friend was a Spider-cat and they could climb walls.
People in the city said, ‘Look at them, climbing walls!’
They were the heroes of the city. They saved the day!...
St. Vincent de Paul Primary School, P5
11th October 2022
Billy the seven year old ghost lived in a big,old wooden shack in a quiet forest at the base of a volcano. The house was abandoned and leaky. Billy died when his school bus crashed into a lake on a school trip because a dog ran in front of it. When the bus crashed into the lake, Billy rose up out of his body and found his way to the house with the dog.
Billy walked through the forest and found food and water, and a really rare, old time machine from the 1500’s. The sun shone through the trees and glinted on the silver of the machine, which had ‘Time Machine’ written on it.
The machine had a lever and buttons which Billy pulled. Billy and Zack the pug dog went back in time to the 1980’s and became a boy again...
Ballysally Primary School, P4
6th October 2022
Bob woke up in the middle of the night. He heard booming cannons. He rushed out, changing out of his pyjamas as he ran, to try to figure out what was happening...
Augher Central Primary School, P5/6
5th October 2022
A 100 Years Project workshop
There once was a Banana called Bob Bonini. He loved to eat tomatoes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. He even ate them for a snack. It was a well known fact that Bob Bonini had the world’s biggest tongue. He was also a very famous YouTuber.
Bunscoil Bheann Mhadágain, R6
29th September 2022
There once was a water bottle called Water Bottle. The water bottle flew to China, using his jet wings. In his pocket, he had an iPhone 45, which was indestructible. (He lost his last iPhone in a fire.)
Water Bottle had a friend in China who told him about golden chocolate bars. There were billions of them!...
St. Oliver Plunkett Primary School, P7
28th September 2022
A 100 Years Project workshop
Once upon a time there was a boy called Sean and he was riding on his bike on a street full of people. He bumped into a strange box. He wondered what it was. He got off his bike and tried to dig the box out of the ground, where it was buried. He had to get some of his friends to help him dig the box out. When they finally got the box free, they found an old picture inside...
St. Oliver Plunkett Primary School, P6 
27th September 2022
A 100 Years Project workshop
Dan was in the English army and he was about to be deployed to World War 1 so he had a book so that he could record his experiences and his last words to his family.
He was on the battlefield and someone snuck up behind him and he got shot. A man called Mark came up behind him and saved his life, and shot the boy who shot him. The friend helped him and Dan got back up again and started fighting again...
By the Good Relations Week group
22nd September 2022
“I hate Fern!”, shouted Fred.
Fred and Fern used to be friends, before Fern turned against Fred. Fred had painted a story just one year ago and Fern was upset about it. Fern had accused Fred of being a fraud who had lied about his paintings predicting the future.
“You’re a fraud” exclaimed Fern.
Then Fern went home and drew a completely different picture to that which Fred had drawn...
