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.
Tusla Home Schoolers @ NI Science Festival
Thursday 11th February 2021
Layla and Shadow were running through the woods chasing the evil King Peelie.
They were at the walls of the palace when they got spotted by the Peelies and had to run..
Blessed Trinity College, Y8
26th January 2021
The crimson red, boiling lava flew from the massive hole in the middle of the mountain. Near the bottom of the mountain lay a workshop where Titanium Man and his dog Jeff were working on their superpowers and practising their telepathy...
Ballyclare High School, Y9
22nd January 2021
Christine was walking home from school. Bombs were like firecrackers, raining from the sky. She could see people running out of flaming houses, screaming...
Shimna Integrated College 
21st January 2021
To the ordinary, unsuspecting eye, Dylan was just a regular painter-decorator...
St. Colmcille Primary School, Ballymena, P6
11th November 2020
One day there was a scientist called Susie. Her and her best friend Fred went out to get pizza.
They walked across the street to the pizza shop but found that it was closed...
McKenzie Reddy, age 10, Co. Antrim
Inspired by the author, Alice Hemming
From the Fantastic Fictions project 2020
This dark tale started on a cold Halloween night, and this death stallion didn’t have a name, for he was wild, a killer...
Straidbilly Primary School, P5/6
6th Nov 2019
At The Riverside Theatre, Coleraine.
Georgie the farmer was fat and wanted to be as strong as his best friend Phillip, so he took wrestling classes.
Phillip was also a farmer who was strong and fit from wrestling cows and sheep a lot...
Straidbilly Primary School P6/7 at the Riverside Theatre, Coleraine
6th Nov 2019
Gerome lived in a rocky world and he travelled in a space craft to bring his made-up humans to Earth. This asteroid was five million light years away in space. Only one person had walked on this rocky world and that was him. Gerome had built a machine that could form humans out of dust...
By Patrick Maginnis, age 14, Co. Down
Wandering through the graveyard it felt like something was watching me. I carefully scanned the dark, desolate environment around me, stepping over and kicking long forgotten flowers out of my way. I had to find out what had happened here. Sergeant Thornton didn't mess around and I was all too familiar with getting on his bad side. He had ordered me here, against my own will, to investigate the disappearance of a young woman called Sarah Quill, an irritating journalist for the local paper. She had disappeared from her bed without trace and no evidence had been found except for the disappearance of a red, leather purse from her handbag...
By Carter, age 7, Co. Down.
There was a roller blades called Carter, they were green with fire logs on the side.
They could fly very high in the sky but they couldn't roller skate very fast.
Their greatest wish was to win an Olympic medal...
