Rusty Beginnings
Drumragh Integrated College, Year 10
9th April 2024
Once upon a time, in an evil mechanic’s dark lab, a robot was born. This story takes place four years later...
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Drumragh Integrated College, Year 10
9th April 2024
Once upon a time, in an evil mechanic’s dark lab, a robot was born. This story takes place four years later...
Fane Street Primary School, P7
13th March 2024
My name is Sophia. I’m 21. I have blonde hair and green eyes. I’m a nuclear tester. I live in an apartment with a creepy guy. My husband and my father, who worked together, died in an explosion. I cried and cried a lot. My heart was broken. I have a best friend named Tom but I have a weird feeling about him.
As I was working in my lab, I found an unexpected potion in a beaker that my dad was really fond of. Red like blood and bubbling like magma in water. Then I found a note beside it...
St Patrick's High School, Year 8
12th March 2024
Vincent went back to jail for stealing the tractor; Yoke. The Yoke, is a big time travel machine (in the form of a tractor) that James needs to travel back to 1914 in Berlin, to stop his beloved cousin Vincent from becoming evil...
St Patrick's Primary School, Holywood, P5
5th March 2024
Once there was a footballer known as Lee Roy, whose wish was to have a lifetime supply of chicken nuggets. He was grinding on Fortnight with his super smart friend Ashley Atom and they had just gotten a Victory Royale. Then a monkey riding a golf cart came into the room...
Leo and his Monstrous Thoughts
Shimna Intergrated College, Year 10s
5th March 2024
Leo was dreaming. He was having a picnic with his dad. He woke up and remembered again that his family was dead . . .
Abbots Cross Primary School, P5
at Rathcoole Library
28th February 2024
Chocolate Man and the alien monster were meeting for the first time. He was at the Spar, shopping. It was the alien's first visit to Earth and he wanted to find a friend.
The green-skinned alien was looking around the Spar, curiously...
Downpatrick Primary School, P7
27th February 2024
This is a story about Bill. He is from Pencil Pencil land. But he lay angrily in a pencil case because he was stuck in it. All the other pencils were pushing him, and shouting at him, and he was missing his best friend Peppa-Cena...
St Joseph's Primary School, P5
22nd February 2024
The vicious cats had taken over the world and hijacked the Dog Treat Palace. Scooba had a pair of special binoculars tied around his neck and saw this from the moon. He jumped down and landed right beside the Palace.
Scooba’s best friend Doggo jumped down as well and fell straight on top of the Palace. The roof thundered on top of the cat army and they were stuck...
St Joseph's Primary School, P5
21st February 2024
Once upon a time, deep in Space, Cosmo the monkey and his parents were practising their intense survival training. They heard a loud BANG on their futuristic Spaceship - it was being attacked!...
St Eugene's Primary School, Omagh, P3-P7
20th February 2024
Once there was a brave boy called Pimple-Boy. One cold evening, he and his mum went for a walk when they saw a bank heist. Pimple-Boy and his mum were scared - then, a robber came...
