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.
Cavehill Primary School, P6
17th May 2022
A 100 Years Project workshop
Once there was a young girl whose family all played the violin carefully because there was no room for mistakes. The girl’s name was Hannah and she was 12 years old. She had black hair and she loved dancing. She had always wanted to play the violin because everyone in her family had done it. She wanted to follow in her ancestors' footsteps...
REACT Youth Club
Armagh Robinson Library
16th May 2022
Oliver was looking through his picture book late one stormy evening and he was looking for family photos so he could take a step closer to finding out who his family were. He was confused why his parents left him all those years ago and now he wanted to find answers. He was lying in his living room with his friend Jacob the monkey. It was late in the evening and the rain was battering off the windows...
Epicentre Youth Club Armagh
13th May 2022
Ava has brown hair and she is 13 years old. When her sister Sarah was born 3 years later, she started giggling at her for no reason.
Ava is 16 now, she is out playing with Sarah by an abandoned railway where she saw a ghost with long curly hair, with a potion. They both ran off back to their home and a few hours later they both had to go to sleep and Sarah was scared about the ghost. They have a flashlight because it's the middle of the night and Ava said
“There is no ghost, it’s your imagination..."
Bloomfield Primary School, P6
12th May 2022
Metal Man was strong and brave… and made of metal. One day he was helping his alien friend Jimmy make an invention to stop bad guys. He went out of the lab and saw a giant robot that looked like him but was evil. The evil robot started trying to fight him.
“I don't want to fight, '' said Metal man. “I am a good person”.
The evil robot said “Well I want to fight you because I am not a good person”.
The evil robot punched him out of nowhere when metal man least expected...
Bloomfield Primary School, P4
11th May 2022
Chapter One
Once upon a time, Tails was in the park playing on the swings. When Tails was swinging, he fell off and hurt his leg and started crying. Flames saw him crying and she came over to help him.
Flames said, ‘are you okay, Tails?’
‘No, I think my leg might be broken.’
Flames phoned an ambulance and told them what happened. The doctors came and rushed Tails to the hospital.
He had to stay in hospital for a month and was stuck in bed the whole time, but Flames came to see him everyday. But then one day, she didn’t come....
REACT Group at the Robinson Library, Armagh
9th May 2022
It was a dark and stomy night in mid winter. The wind was howling while Smeon was in the laboratory. He was thinking of his next idea for an invention. He decided to make a rocket than would run on mustard. The test and experiement failed and he got really mad.
Cavehill Primary School, P6
10th May 2022
A 100 Years Project workshop
One evening there was a little boy called Bob and it was coming up to his 12th birthday. He woke up and his Granny came into his house and gave him a glass bottle from years ago. The bottle was all rusty and parts of it were broken, where the cap was, it was all ripped off. His Granny told him that her Dad gave it to her a year before his death.
‘Why have you given that to me and not another Grandchild?’ Bob asked...
Home Ed Group (ages 7-11)
5th May 2022
One day Panda the Red Panda goes to a store and finds a time travelling machine that can make you go to the start of time by pressing a button. She presses the button and falls from the sky and lands in the forest. There, she meets another panda called Violet.
“Where did you come from?” said Violet in surprise.
“Hi!” said Panda.
“Are you okay?” said Violet.
Panda stands up and says “I’m okay!”
Together they walk through the forest...
The Hub - Liberty Consortium
5th May 2022
Chapter 1
Once upon a time there was an evil wizard called Jafar who’s biggest dream was to play the piano as he wanted to play notes because he wanted to learn how to play a rhythm to be on time with it. He wants to perform in his home town in Jupiter called Randomville where everyone would float, to impress Jasmine, the girl he wants to marry. He went to a circus when he sees a pretty girl called Jasmine who is the ringmaster in charge of the circus...
Augher Primary School, P6/7
4th May 2022
One day when Kat was on her way home from work, she started to remember her dead dog, Max, who she had accidentally hit with her car. She went home and went to bed. The next morning she went to her job as a vet. A dog was brought in with a broken leg from a car accident. It looked just like Max and she started to cry. After work she went to see her friend, Rick, at his house, because she needed to talk about her day.
“You should go skydiving,” said Rick. “I know how much that helps..."
