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.
John was lost in space, because he had lost his map. He was lost on a planet that he didn’t recognise. He was scared because he had no-one with him and he had no mates. The planet had a lot of trees, it was cold, it was minus 100. He kept warm by a cosy campfire that he bought from a vending machine.
Snappy was in a deep purple lake in a jungle one day and he saw a fish. He grabbed it with his jaws and took it over to the land. As soon as he reached the shore the giant creatures stole his fish. There were five giant creatures and they were demon hippos.
Once upon a time there lived a boy called Jimmy Woods. His daddy brought him to a horse riding club when he was five. He went loads of times and became a champion.
Once upon a time in a land called Fruit Bowl, there was a man named Fergus - who wasn’t like any other man. Secretly, Fergus was Grape Man, Fruit Bowl’s superhero. But Fergus didn’t actually like grapes, he preferred cucumbers.
Bethany was walking down the street on her way to the protest when she saw someone in white, high-quality thigh-high glittery boots and he started shouting at her. Stevo was protesting with a couple people outside the main Royal Gardens. The protestors disagreed with magic being practised in the Royal Gardens. They also didn’t believe that their kids should be seeing such horridness.
Charlie was selling ice-cream as usual from his ice-cream van. It was parked at the side of the beach. He parked it there every morning and stayed there until dusk.
It was lunchtime: the busiest time of the day. His van had broken down on the way to the beach. He didn’t have enough money to fix it because there was a rival ice-cream van. His day was going really bad - and then he saw Lucy.
Sammy lived in a mystical forest, which could be scary sometimes. Sammy was a purple dragon with green spots and, when he was a baby, he lost his left wing. Sammy had been a captured by a human who wanted to use him for ransom because Sammy’s mummy and daddy were the leaders of all the dragons. Sammy lost a wing during his escape.
Burnsie woke up one afternoon in the flats. He lived in Belfast and was training for his first fight. He lived by himself - except for his robot girlfriend, Saoirse.
He heard a knock on his door and went to answer it. It was Craigie, his football-mad, long lost friend from primary school.
