Little Big Imagination

In conjunction with the Access Office at the Institute of Technology Blanchardstown, second year ITB Creative Digital Media students were delighted to work with 6th class students from St. Patrick’s Senior National School, Corduff. Students drew inspiration from the wonderful narratives, and visualised the creations though Illustration. www.creativedigitalmedia.ie/littlebigimaginaton The Access Office at ITB The main aim of the ITB Access Office is to ensure that access to third level education becomes a reality for students who are currently under represented at third level. One of the key roles of the ITB Access Office is to provide opportunities to students who traditionally might have found it difficult to access third level education, as well as to promote positive perceptions of the value of, and the enjoyment that can be gained from education generally.

ITB has established many strong links with both primary and second level schools in the Dublin 15 area. We have collaborated with St. Patrick’s Senior School in Corduff on many projects over the last number of years such as school gardens, science week, robotics, maths workshops, creative writing workshops and this project has given us a great opportunity to capture a snapshot of the amazing imaginations of the 6th class children.

Adrienne Harding, ITB Access Officer

Creative Digital Media at ITB The Bachelor of Arts in Creative Digital Media at Institute of Technology Blanchardstown equips students with the skills and knowledge to embark upon a rewarding career in Digital Media.

Digital technology has made significant strides in recent years and the impact of this has not only transformed how traditional media is produced, delivered and consumed, but also led to the widespread adoption of newer media formats such as the World Wide Web, digital video, mobile computing, iPad/iPhone apps, multimedia, interactive TV, and computer games.

Successful practice in this area requires a combination of technological know-how, creative design skills, and a critical understanding of the industry context. Graduates of this programme are in an ideal position to operate at the heart of organisations engaged in innovative Digital Media projects.

Graduates of the course are well placed to work in any aspect of the creative industries from web design, visual language and layout, universal design, photography, video and film making, digital content management or sound engineering.

ITB have state of the art digital media labs with Apple iMacs and Windows workstations, network with Apple, Microsoft and Adobe software resources that a student can get real practical experience of during the course of their studies. We have a wide range of digital photography, video and film equipment with good sound engineering and video facilities.

This course concentrates on digital creativity and mixes both theory and practical hands on work in a good balance that helps the students to be successful and fun environment. Essentially, the emphasis is on creative arts with a practical value that will enable the graduate to work as a practitioner in the creative digital industry.

Niamh O’Hora Creative Digital Media Second Year Coordinator www.creativedigitalmedia.ie www.facebook.com/creativedigitalmedia.ie

Suzanne Burns Class

Suzanne Burns Class

Harry And His Bucket of Dinosaurs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The CoCo Pops Monkey Gang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Haunted House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Stop Watch That Could Stop Time . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Amazon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Sasusan Tobayo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

New World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Heros Of Delyfoy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Wedding Bells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Talking Pig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Upon The Sacred Mountain Top . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Snickers And The Gang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Incredible Ice Cream Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Dirty Shoes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Candy Car . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Help! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Break In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Fairies - Love At First Sight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Candy Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Lily’s Adventure in Beacon Hospital! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Hell & Heaven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

I went to Dubai With My Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

My Fabulous Summer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Bad Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Star That Doesn’t Shine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Zenonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Talking Pig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Michael Akindolie, Rafal Baran Ross Cunningham, Afshin Moosavi Séan Davis, Jonathan Doyle Jordan Deegan, Jonathan Doyle Adekunle Edebiri , Stephen Duffy Amen Enihoro, Karen Holland Dominick Kuncik, Niall Lennon Farouq Maliq Stephen, Mc Quillan Bless Manzambi, Afshin Moosavi Patrick McGinley, Guitar Egbon Periale Noutaha, Olivia Ricci Adam O’Beirne, Eoin Smith Aaron O’Hanlon, Edel Twamley Mantas Stankevicius,Rafal Baran Peter Vrinceanu,Shannon Clarke Aissatou Balde,Bronagh Culhan Megan Doyle, Bronagh Culhan Evelyn Forcha, Stephen Duffy Cody Grassick ,Karen Holland Janet Itambo ,Niall Lennon Linh LeThi, Martyn Mills Jasmine McCormack, Shannon Clarke Venus Oghweh, Eoin Smith Joy Okoye, Edel Twamly Denisa Rusu, Martyn Mills Farouq Maliq, Guitar Egbon Patrick McGinley, Stephen Mc Quillan

Nigel O’Hara’s Class The Turtle In A Tuxedo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Angry Giant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

My Stepbrother And I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Rabbit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Day Meteors Hit Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Jokers Revenge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Dwayne The Skateboarder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Zombie Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Heart Of An Animal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Alien Attack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Gabriel A Juan, Jade Lawless Dylan Durran, Barry Flynn Abraham Ehonwa, Carol Gallagher Daniel Hennessy, Craig Hoare Jack Manning, Ciaran McManus Conor Neary, Christopher Moynihan Cedric Orazi, Ciaran Murphy David Power, Jamie O’Grady Julius Savickis, Niall O’Sullivan Jordan Walsh, Carol Gallagher

The Dangerous Man. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Haunted History Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Birthday Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Rose And the Magical Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

One More Day In Her Miserable Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Lonely Girl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Harry The Hunter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Dumb Maka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Sophia And Her Friends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Storm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Lonely Bear ...................................

Modern Version Of Rapunzel ............................

Charlie’s Ball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Sleepovers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Moses Zola , Cormac Walsh Roxana Andrecut, Karen Brennan Bianca Bobowicz, Jade Lawless Megan Larey, Barry Flynn Daiana Damoc, Aura Pop Grace Dionga, Craig Hoare Aoife Kelehan, Ciaran McManus Soleil Lomingo, Christopher Moynihan Cledia Luzolo, Ciaran Murphy Kerrie Manning, Jamie O’Grady Jessica Mullen, Niall O’Sullivan Franka Omamina, Aura Pop Adetoun Oyinloye, Cormac Walsh Leah Robinson, Karen Brennan

Laura Mulligan’s Class Super Burn Out Girl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Adventures Of Jade City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Cannibals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Virus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Spy Who? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Amnesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

President Of Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The End . . . of . . .The . . . . .World ........................................

Bloody Money. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Survival Games . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Sarah And Her Dad’s Adventure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Ghost Master . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Mysterious Phone Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Chuckie The Ghost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Field Of Bodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Sally’s Going To Get You . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Killer Hand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Killer Baby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Spirits of War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Survive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Football Match . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Ghost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Yogi Bear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Super Burn Out Girl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Car Crash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Tom Went Missing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Field Of Bodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Mykela Sullivan, Tara Foy Nick Oguntuase, Tara Foy Glenn Arthurs, Michelle Eccles Nathan Fitzgerald, Mihaela Apostol Dylan Fitzgerald-Murphy,Cecil Brady Kian Hanlon, Daniel Butler Jason Kidd-McCormack,Greg Callan Rasaq Lawal, Conor Corrigan Mustapha Muibideen, Sean Finnegan Sinaly Nyafa, Ciara Gaughan Nick Oguntuase, Gavin Geraghty Tommy O’Neill, Kaya Keats Dennis Obewu, Conor Redmond I.K. Orumwense, Jonny Rowen Ricky Osagi, Aisling Smith Shauna Byrne, Mihaela Apostol Rebecca Doyle-Carroll, Cecil Brady Rebecca Johnston, Daniel Butler Nancy Kuti, Greg Callan Amy Mannion, Conor Corrigan Haylie Marsden, Sean Finnegan Cáithlin Monaghan, Ciara Gaughan Leah Murray, Gavin Geraghty Sorelle Noutaha, Kaya Keats Mykela Sullivan, Conor Redmond Natasha Tuite, Jonny Rowen Simone White, Aisling Smith Shauna Byrne, Eccles Michelle

Story by Michael Akindolie Illustration rafal Baran

-”Ahhhhh I’m late for School.” Shouted Harry as his alarm clock rang loudly. He jumped out of his bed and into the shower. After he was done dressing, he raced down the stairs into the kitchen and age his breakfast with enthusiasm.

-”Bye mum. I’m off to school.”

-”Harry”. His mum yelled.

-”Did you remember to feed your pet fishes?”

-”Yes mum”. BAM! He slammed the door with force.

“I wish I had some pets that had legs that could get out of their cage and get their food, so I would not have to do it. Dinosaurs, yes I would like some pet dinosaurs.” He thought.

-”Hey Harry, give me your lunch money.”

-”Oh no.” Said Harry. It was Josh, the bully who has been always picking on him. Harry quickly rushed into his class and shut the door.

-”Harry.” Yelled the teacher.

-”You are late yet again. Five hours of after school detention should punish you enough.”

-”Why don’t you punish yourself?” Harry said quietly to himself.

-”You think I should be punished eh?” Said teacher.

-”How about eight hours? See you in detention.”

In detention Harry saw a bucket in the corner with small talking dinosaurs called Pablo, Tina, Tyron and Oscar.

-”Yeeeeessss.” Said Harry.

He had finally found his pets.

ss!!! s s s s e ee Yeee

Story by Ross CUNNINGHAM Illustration by Afshin moosavi

In a land far away, there were three heroes whose mission was to take down an evil villain called Killer Croc. He and his gang were the worst people around. So my friends and I decided to put together a team to take him down.

Allow me to introduce the three assassins: Crack, Snap and Pop. They are the greatest in the town,they’ve never been caught and will not stop. Then there is Mr. Weetos, a man who always gets the job done and the last but not least, Stiffler the Coco Pops Monkey, he is wise and skillful.

The team and I heard that something was happening in the city, and we went out to investigate. We saw Killer Croc entering a dark building. The assassins went around back, and Mr. Weetos and I went to the front. When we were ready, we ran in and fought the evil gang. I attacked Killer Croc to take him down, but he led us into a trap! We had to fight back, but killer Crop blew the place to smithereens. When we came-to, killer Crop was gone.

We escaped this time, but the killer was still on the loose. We searched the city and finally found him and his gang. We were going to give Killer Croc a run for his Money, and we attacked them all. The gang members were beaten, and I was fighting Killer Croc to the death. I kicked him in the face but he was so angry he pulled out a gun and shot me! Mr. Weetos stepped in to help, and tackled Killer Croc to the ground, so the police could arrest him. The assassins took me out of the building and Mr. Weetos blew the building up to save the world. “Thanks to Mr. Weetos. the real hero” I said, the world is saved!

Story by sean davis Illustration by jonathan doyle

Once, there was a boy named Dylan and he was 15 years old. One day whilst he was walking home from school, Dylan decided to take a short cut and came across a big wooden house. For some reason he thought it would be a good idea to enter the house, he was afraid but his friends were with him so he tried to act cool.

He approached the porch and pushed on the big wooden door, it opened with a groaning creek. Inside the house it was very dark and creepy with the only light coming from the moon outside, Dylan was still trying to act cool but he was really scared now. He went into what looked like a sitting room; there was a TV and a couch, which made him think someone was actually living there.

If it’s someone’s house, he thought maybe he should leave. Dylan went back to the front door but it was now locked! He could no longer act cool and started to panic but his friends calmed him down. All of a sudden the group heard a strange laughing coming from somewhere in the house!

It was all too much for Dylan who sprang into action and grabbed a nearby chair, throwing it towards the window, which broke into hundreds of pieces, without another thought he dived through the window and ran. …And he never stopped running until he was safely at home; I’ll take the long way home in future he thought.

The stopwatch that could stop time

Story by jordan deegan Illustration by jonathan doyle

One day there was a knock at my door, I opened it and there stood the postman. “Hey got a delivery here for a Jordan” he said. “Eh I didn’t order anything”.”Look kid do you want something for free or not”? I signed for it and took the package into my house, set it down on the table and began to open it.

The package was heavily wrapped and took some doing to open. When I pulled the last piece of wrapping off, there sat a really colourful watch with one huge button in the centre that was labeled “start”. I took it out and noticed there was no instructions. I pushed the start button and everything around me seemed to freeze!

I looked out the window and everything had been frozen in time. I pushed the button again and everything started moving. I quickly ran to the phone and called my friend Jamie, “get over here quick, I’ve something really cool to show you”!

Jamie didn’t waste time in getting over, I showed him the watch and asked him to touch the button. Everything froze again, he was amazed! “What can we do with this?” I said. “Wait! We can do anything we want”! So, we got loads of money, stopped time and boarded a plane to America!

When the plane landed we stopped time and sneaked off the plane before anyone noticed we had no tickets. We used the watch again to get a red Ferrari and then drove to The White House; everyone was frozen so we had no problems getting in.

We picked president Obama up and threw him out the door, and then we replaced all of the old furniture with cool things we liked. We had a garage full of the best and fastest cars and bikes in the world and we even had a car in the living room, we replaced the windows in the front and back with 116-inch plasma screens.

Oh what a life it was, living in The White House!

Go

The Amazon Story by Adekunle Edebiri Illustration by Stephen Duffy

Once upon a time there was a boy called Adekunle. He was royalty, and all of his subjects looked up to him. The great thing about the kingdom was that it was full of talking animals. The kingdom was very peaceful, but one day Adekunle’s brother Trent wanted to rule the kingdom all on his own.

Their father Arthur declared that there would be a battle for the throne.

Adekunle was five years younger than his brother and he did not know what to do. “I shall make a plan to defeat my brother Trent?” said prince Adekunle. “Prince Adekunle, the kingdom is waiting for you to being your battle against Prince Trent“ a talking centaur said. “Now these two brothers will face each other in a cell with only their swords to protect them“ announced King Arthur. “Now are you two brave warriors ready to fight?

“He exclaimed. They both yelled “yes! “. They both fought bravely, but in the end Adekunle won.

Story by Amen Enihoro Illustration by Karen Holland

I had never run so fast in my life. You might be wondering why I’m running but it’s because I’m off to a death mission. My name is Sasusan Tobayo and I’m an anime hero. I’m a descendant from the great Yazuka Kunichimaru, in other words a descendant from the great Tobayo family.

I was sent to earth from my home far away in space called Sasnan, yep I was! I was brought here to save the earth with my friends Shong and Shing.

They’re boy and girl twins. Shong is the boy and Shing is the girl. Shong can hover, Shing can fly because she has wings and me, well let’s just say I was born to fight. Our Sensei Tanvirdan sent us to this death mission. Death missions only happen once in a Shinobis life and I’m not going to mess it up.

This is the part were I pause the story to tell you something, Tanvirdan is a dwarf. Now back to the story... We are here but that’s all the time we have.

This will be continued next time on! Remato.

Story by dominic kunick Illustration by Niall Lennon

It was an early morning, as bright as the sun itself. I woke to find myself lying on the ground in a block land. I saw a sign saying “To go back to the real world you must defeat the Dragon in the end”. I had to head to the nearest village. A sign said that the village was up north. Finally I saw some people and I knew this was the place. It had a sign saying “Your house has an iron door with buttons to open”. Once I got inside I saw another sign saying “Iron gear in the chest in your room”.

I woke up the next day with a person standing beside me. His name was Notch. Suddenly two other guys appeared called Jeb and Herobrine. They told me they would help me defeat the dragon. I was given two and a half stacks of pearls. They said it would help me find the portal and that they would meet me there. Then they faded away slowly. Soon I found the portal. I was down to four hearts left and I only had one arrow, but I took and leap and I shot it. BOOOM!!

Was it a dream, or not...?

Heroes of Delfoy

Story by FarouqMaliq Illustration by Stephen McQuillan

There once were four boys named Tabacco Sinsero, Chael, Vandillo and Tuffen. These boys had special talents. Tabacco could launch electricity at enemies. Chael had claws, so when he struck at enemies it would go through them. Vandillo had a stick, but was no ordinary stick because he could shoot laser beams, energy balls and knives. Tuffen just had a sword that gives lots of damage.

Now Tabacco is also known as Mechanical launcher. Chael is known as King Claw. Vanditto is known as Nature Showman. Tuffen is known as Knight.

They were working to be heroes of the town. The town was shaking and everybody was in their homes. The place that the four boys were standing was like a big earthquake had just happened. Then they were teleported to a weird place. They encountered lots of temple guards and blue and green blobs, also some small octopuses. They bet them and came across some puzzles, then the octopus’s boss.

So, they entered the Dungeon. It was large. But they managed to beat it.

So they saved a woman named Celine. The woman took them to the town of Delfoy. They met her bodyguard. The bodyguard was about to hit them but Celine said “No…They are my friends”. Then a woman came in and said “its time for church Celine, my dear”. Celine said to the four heroes “Ok bye and check out the town guys”.

c TU

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Story by Bless manzambi Illustration by Afshin Moosavi

Hi my name is Oscar Sos Areira Soarereri, but people just call me Oscar. I’m known because I’ve got incredible football skills. I am handsome and I’m getting married.

Yes! I am getting married, but I have a problem. I am allergic to bells. Every wedding in Brazil has to have bells. I went to a doctor to cure my allergy.

The doctor said: “I tried to, but I just made you’re allergy worse”. Idiot! I decided to face my fears.

My fiancé, Ann Maria Steiwstager, wanted our wedding to be in Spain.

Thankfully, weddings in Spain don’t use bells. Ann and I got married, and lived happily ever after.

THE TALKING

PIG

Story by PATRICK MCGINLEY Illustration by guitar egbon

Once there lived a talking pig named Billy. Billy lived in a field with lots of talking animals. Billy and the horses are great friends and they spent all their time running around the field.

There was a man who lived nearby named John. John was a scary, evil man who liked to do mean things to animals. He had cuts and scares on his face.

He was always filthy and his hair was always messy. Nobody liked John because he was bad and liked to hurt animals.

One day Billy was munching on some lovely truffles when he suddenly fell very sick. John had put rat poison in Billy’s Mushrooms. Luckily the farmer happened to be walking through the field and he saw Billy lying in the grass.

He rushed him to the vet, who gave Billy an Injection to make him better.

Meanwhile back at the field, the horses decided to go get revenge for Billy. They kicked John’s car and broke his windows. They dented his car with their big hooves. John arrived and asked, “What are you doing”?

The horses replied, “that’s for hurting our friend Billy”. After that day, John never hurt an animal again and was very sorry.

THE TALKING

PIG

Story by Periale Noutaha Illustration by Olivia ricci

Rest a while, relax and stop, upon this sacred mountain top. Siddey Bogey is what I speak, true wisdom is what I seek. For I am he the yoga bear, mediating in my toga. My task is very plain, to tackle stress and mental strain. A yoga class to make me calm, improve my posture and my charm.

While my teacher was saying, ‘oh no, no, no!’, I kept saying, ‘oh yes, yes, yes!’. My sister’s name is Mary Ray Jay. She was crying because someone dissed her, but I was crying because I had a blister. The next day, Mary told me it was the first day of May. I realized it was her birthday. I could not believe I had forgotten. I bought her a power ranger, which was a lower range than mine.

Mary got engaged to this guy called Page. I was really annoyed so I moved to Paraguay. Then Mary told me she was moving to Uruguay. This week was the worst, of the worst, of the worst.

Story by ADAM O’Beirne Illustration by EOin Smith

In the past month Snickers man and the gang were causing hell in Nevada, Las Vegas. They escaped from a maximum-security prison in New York. The gang is believed to be living in Ferrari caravans in Harry’s car park. Rumors say their gambling in the Pot Of Gold Casino. Luckily the casino has bodyguards and surprisingly they didn’t rob the casino in fact they spent over two thousand dollars there.

This just in, over one million people have died in Israel today because Hitler bombed it. Afterwards the gang went to a children’s birthday party, Barrack Obama got drunk on the roof and fell off. Police have said he is dead. Just then the gang went to KFC and they spotted Jesus and they decided to recruit him to the gang, next they robbed a Bank of America and got over five thousand dollars, which was all, spent on furniture. Five miles away on the Nevada freeway all five caravans slammed head on into five gas trucks and caused a big explosion. All are dead.

But wait the gang come back to life and caused a huge rampage with Satan, but while shooting they all ran out of ammo and got arrested. In court the gang had to clean all toilets within 10 miles then judge Judy got a Shrink-Ray 2000 and the gang were all five years old and got sent to Junior Infants, who knows what will happen next?

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Story by Aaron O’Hanlon Illustration by Edel Twamley

Last summer I was on the beach having a great time but suddenly I felt sweating. So when I got out of the sea I went to my uncle to ask for a drink.

He said he didn’t have one. I started to get a bit annoyed. My uncle said he’d left the drinks at home.

I had to wait three hours until the ice cream van came. As soon as it arrived I went over to my uncle. I asked him for money to get something off the ice cream van. He said he had no money as he left it all at home. I told him to go and get his money. While he was getting the money I was trying to distract the man working in the ice cream van by talking to him to give my uncle time to get back with the money.

My uncle gave me two euro to get something from the ice cream van. I was going to get a drink but I decided I to get an ice cream instead. The man gave me a big 99 for two euro. When the man handed me the ice cream it suddenly began to talk. I went to back to sit beside my uncle. I thanked him for the ice cream. I named the ice cream Goggaly Man. I really liked him. I wanted to keep him for a long time but I couldn’t because I was so hunger. I eat him and he was lovely. Goggaly Man saved my life.

Story by Mantas Stankevicius Illustration rafal Baran

Boy has dirty shoes. His mom is sad. She thinks that he needs clean shoes.

But he likes dirty shoes. He thinks dirty shoes are trendy. He will keep wearing dirty shoes.

Story by Jasmine MC Cormack Illustration by Shannon Clarke

One summers morning, Jimmy woke up with a sound of a cars engine starting. He opened his window to see what it was. Jimmy’s eyes opened so wide in amazement. He ran down the stairs and outside he went.

“Wow! What a wonderful car! I would love to eat it right now” said Jimmy.

Suddenly, the car started to talk saying “hey you don’t touch me or else I’ll knock you down! Oh yes, what’s your name?” “My names Jimmy. What about you?” “My name is Jelly Belly Wispa.”

Jimmy got into Jelly Belly Wispa and took a lollipop off the exhaust. “Yum it tastes like a black Jack” he said. They were driving around and the car drove into the woods but he started getting tired and suddenly he broke down.

Jimmy was worried. He didn’t know what to do. “Hello young boy. Nice car you have. Is it broken down? My name is Gregory. I have some food and drink here if you want some”. Jimmy’s phone rang. It was his mother “Help! There’s a man here and he has one eye” But then the phone call was finished and he didn’t know what happened.

Finally, the car said, “Coke, need Coke” so they poured Coke into it and it was like brand new. Off Jimmy went in the car heading home. When he got home he started eating sweets off the car. By the end of the week, Jimmy was fat.

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Story by Aissatou Blade Illustration by Brónagh Culhane

I ran through the corridor. I knew Mom told me to never open the door to strangers, but what can you do? If you’re me and worrying what to do and you’re frustrated that she’s taking ages at the shop. I heard a ring on the too. So I stupidly opened it. I was so silly. Mum never rings the doorbell, she always has her own key. It happened so quickly. The robbers just ran in ignoring me.

There I was running all over the house like a total idiot. They were bound to steal everything. Te television; oh how could I live without it? I quickly looked back, the robbers were in the kitchen ad I heard them banging pans and kicking the bin. I was so frightened. I didn’t know where to run, I glanced at the back door. I ran to it. I tried to unlock it but it didn’t budge.

“Someones there!”, I heard the robbers say to each other. I heard their footsteps coming towards me with. I opened the door with huge effort and ran out to the back garden. They were only breaths behind me. I came to a wall at the end of the garden. They were coming nearer. I had to jump over it. “NO! NO!” I heard a shriek. I saw a car, I was on the ground. Everything went black.

“Ally, what’s wrong?” said Mom. “What w-w-waht happened?” I stuttered.

“You had a bad dream, don’t worry” Mom continued. “But it looked so real!”

I replied. “It’s alright, jest go back to sleep.” Mom said calmly. “Okay.” I said.

It was all just a dream.

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Story by Megan Doyle Illustration by brónagh Culhane

I didn’t mean for it to happen. It was an accident. It all started when we moved into the house I didn’t know, besides it all happened so fast. He followed me home! I mean, what was I supposed to do? Invite him in for a cup of tea? Anyway, when I got home I went upstairs to do my homework.

Then I heard the stairs creek. I thought it was my Dad. I was concentrating on my maths homework and I thought I didn’t hear him come in. All I heard was the floorboard creek. I looked out my window to see if my Dads car was there but it wasn’t.

Before I turned back around something grabbed me. It covered my mouth so I couldn’t scream. Next thing I knew, we are going down, down, down to the basement. Then he starts yelling at me and he sees my locket around my neck. He tries to snatch it. He also had a guns when he tried to pull the trigger I hit him. I called the police be cause he wanted to shoot me! Then I grabbed the gun and was going to put it away but as I was getting up I tripped and accidentally shot him.

Ten minutes later the police arrived and took me away. I was hand cuffed and was screaming “IT WAS AN ACCIDENT!”

Fairies - Love at first sight Story by Evelyn Forcha Illustration by Stephen duffy

There was a fairy called Angela. She was the most beautiful girl in fairyland. One day Angela was flying to the market to buy some bread for her parents. While she was in the shop she saw a group of boys near the sweet section stuffing their pockets with sweets. Angela decided to do something about the situation, so she went to tell the security guard.

The guard saw one of the boys taking a sweet and leaving with the rest of the gang. “Hold it there” shouted the guard. “Why are your jackets so puffy?” he asked. Suddenly all kinds of sweets fell out of their pockets.

“Come with me” ordered the guard. “Oh man who told on us?” they asked one another.

As soon as Angela heard that she ran to pay for the bread. While Angela was running home she bumped into a handsome young boy and dropped her bread. “I am so sorry. My name is Mark, what’s yours?” He asked.

“My name is Angela,” She answered. “Will I walk you home?” he replied.

“Sure” she said. After several days Mark and Angela were closer friends.

Mark was walking around the neighborhood and saw Angela. “Hey Angela, can I ask you a question?” Mark asked. “Sure anything” she said. “ Do you want to go on a date with me?” Mark asked……….”YES!” She finally answered. After a while they became boyfriend and girlfriend.

Story by Cody Grassick Illustration by Karen Holland

There was a loud bang! Licorice man has stolen the crown of Candy Land.

You may never have heard of Candy Land, so let me tell you a bit about it.

The castle is made from orange jelly, the flowers are lollipops, the rivers are full of chocolate and the bushes are made of candy floss. Ok back to the story. “Licorice man is getting away, “screamed Princess Toffee. “Its alright we’ll catch him” explained the three marshateers. “You’ll never catch him,” explained Princess Toffee to King Ice-Cream. “Oh yes we will” said a voice in the distance. King Ice-Cream said, “Is that you Sarah Skittles?” The voice answered back “It is”. “If you can bring back my crown you will get everything you ever wanted”. “It’s a deal,” said Sarah excitedly.

King Ice-Cream gave Sarah the chocolate finger horse and with that Sarah galloped through the forest. Sarah could see Lickerish Man in the distance.

As she caught up to Licorice Man, he slipped and Licorice Man fell over the cliff. The Crown of Candy Land went up in the air and with one leap Sarah caught the crown. Sarah brought the crown back to King Ice-Cream. He was so happy except for the three marshateers.

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Story by Janet Itambo Illustration by Niall lennon

Lily is going to have an adventure. Today she is going to Beacon Hospital to have her sore eye made all better again. Lily has brought her favourite pyjamas and teddy bear with her.

Lily could not have breakfast today but Mommy promised her some lovely ice-cream tomorrow! Lily says “Hello” to the nice special children’s nurses, Liz and Kim. They show her all the lovely toys that they have! Liz takes Lily’s temperature to see how warm she is.

There are other boys and girls in Beacon Hospital too. Michael is here to have his tonsils taken out so his throat doesn’t hurt anymore. Kim is giving him a special bracelet with his name and age on it. Now Lily is having her blood pressure taken, this special armband will tell her how big her muscles are! It blows up like a balloon and can feel a little bit tight but only for a minute. Kim is weighing Michael on a weighing scale. He eats his dinner every day so he is getting big and heavy. When the doctor is making her better, in a room called a theatre, Lily will wear special pyjamas that look a bit like a long dress and a very funny hat!

The doctor said that Lily would be getting out soon. And later on Lily got her ice-cream.

Story by Linh Le Thi Illustration by mARTYN MILLS

Mark and Aria were brother and sister. One sunny afternoon they went to the carnival to celebrate Aria’s birthday. Mark and Aria decided to go on the rollercoaster.

They were waiting in the line to go on the master rollercoaster. Next it was their turn to go on it. “Hey let me go on first” Marked screamed.

“But it’s my birthday today! You’re so mean!” Aria said as she pushed Mark.

“Yeah Yeah, go on then quick before it goes” Mark said cheekily.

As they went up Mark got scared as they went around and around he cried.

“Stop this now, NOW!” Mark screamed.

“What? I can’t hear you” Aria pleaded.

“I’m jumping off! Bye” Mark said as he flew off the rollercoaster.

Aria followed him as Mark fell on to the ground and died. Then a devil came and brought him to hell so he could be with his friends.

Aria fell on to the ground and also died. Soon, three angles came and brought her to heaven to have peace and joy in heaven.

From that day nobody would go on the master rollercoaster!

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Story by Peter Vrinceavnu Illustration By Shannon Clarke

One day I asked my classmates if they wanted to come to Dubai and I paid for their flight two hours later. I went with Megan, Ross, Bless, jasmine, Aaron, Cody, Janet, Amen, Micheal, Faroqu, Adekunle, Adam, Evelynn, Mantas, Periale, Linh, Nicole, Patrick, Aissatou,jordan, Joy, Venus, Sean, Denisa, and Dominick.

We were getting our bags and we got a big big big big big big van. We saw a huge hotel so all of us went in. We each got a bedroom. I called Jasmine to tell everybody to come down stairs to eat their dinner. We ate rice and curry with chicken.

After our dinner a few minutes later we went to the carnival. Me Jass, Jordan, Cody, Janet, Aaron, and Periale got sick on the rollercoaster. We saw Ms Burns at the carnival. She was with her boyfriend. She lived in Dubai, she said, “what are you doing over here?� The next day we went back home.

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Story by Venus Oghweh Illustration by Eoin Smith

My name is Candy and I’m gonna tell you what happened last Friday. My sister Mandy & I were going to Nandos in the Shopping Centre, when a METEOR came hurling towards Earth! I was wondering what NASA was doing, that they couldn’t be bothered to warn us.

BOOM! I opened my eyes and all I could see was smoke, I could hear sirens going shouting. I called Mandy’s name and thankfully she answered and I closed my eyes. The next thing I know is a bunch of aliens land on earth and Mandy and I are running from government agents & aliens. Oh did I mention we now had superpowers, like in the movie? We created our own super suits and were off flying and kicking alien butts left and right.

It was the best summer EVER!! “And that’s what I done on my summer holidays” I said to my class.

Story by Joy Okoye Illustration by Edel Twamley

One day I woke up with a pimple on my forehead “Oh no and I have to go to school like this”. This is awful, I thought to myself. It’s picture day at school, everybody is going to be looking at my head, this is bad. DING DONG! Jenny my best friend is at the door. “Hi Jenny”. “Hello Megan. Wow! What’s on your forehead?” “Oh it’s just a pimple know one would notice it”. “Yes they would Megan! Get rid of it”. What’s that noise? DING DONG! It is the doorbell. My other friend Sarah is at the door. “Hi Sarah”. “Oh no Megan, you have a pimple that’s bad”. “No it’s ok, I’ll wear this hat. Let’s go to school no before where late”.

“Good morning girls” said Ms Murphy our teacher when we arrived. “Megan take off that hat it’s covering your forehead. As well as that it’s picture day.

You can’t take a picture with that hat on. It is not part of your uniform”.

RING RING. It’s break time “You can go out to the yard now”. What I’m I supposed to do? I thought to myself. Calm down Megan the pimple will go away.

“What time is it?” I asked Sarah. “It’s 2.39” answered Jenny “school is going to be over soon”. Strange I didn’t have my picture taken yet. DING! DONG! DING! At home time I said bye to Sarah and Jenny and bye to Ms Murphy.

Suddenly I woke up and looked in the mirror and saw my pimple was not there. My Bad Day ended up being good.

Story by DENISA rUSU Illustration by mARTYN MILLS

Once upon a time there once was a star that didn’t shine. The she was sad because the other stars shone. Every night she was crying, but one night a Genie came along to the shineless star. The Genie asked the star” what’s wrong?”. The Genie said “if you want to shine, then you have to do me a favour”. They made a deal. The Genie told the star “see that lady over there? You have to help me go on a date with her”.

“Ok, ok” said the star.

Night came and the star couldn’t wait until the next. The next day the Genie met the star and the Genie said “my love will be coming over here at 12 o’clock and you know what to do, right?” And the star said with excitement “of course, of course, I’ll do it as soon as possible when I see her”.

It was exactly 12 o’clock and the Genie came to the place where the star told him to come. Suddenly the Genie’s love came along to the place where the star and the genie met up. Just then, the star jumped in front of Julia, the Genie’s love and the star said “Hello there, I was wondering if you would go on a date with my friend? “. Julia was very happy because they loved each other and they lived happily ever after.

The star finally shone in the twinkling sky every night.

Story by farouq maliq Illustration by guitar egbon

There once were four boys named Tabacco Sinsero, Chael, Vandillo and Tuffen. These boys had special talents. Tabacco could launch electricity at enemies. Chael had claws, so when he struck at enemies it would go through them. Vandillo had a stick, but was no ordinary stick because he could shoot laser beams, energy balls and knives. Tuffen just had a sword that gives lots of damage.

The boys were also known as:  Tabacco = Mechanical launcher  Chael = King Claw  Vanditto = Nature Shaman  Tuffen = Knight They were working to be heroes of the town. The town was shaking and everybody was in their homes. The place that the four boys were standing was like a big earthquake had just happened. Then they were teleported to a weird place. They encountered lots of temple guards and blue and green blobs, also some small octopuses. They bet them and came across some puzzles, then the octopus’s boss.

So, they entered the Dungeon. It was large. But they managed to beat it.

So they saved a woman named Celine. The woman took them to the town of Delfoy. They met her bodyguard. The bodyguard was about to hit them but Celine said “No…They are my friends”. Then a woman came in and said “its time for church Celine, my dear”. Celine said to the four heroes “Ok bye and check out the town guys”.

Story by Patrick McGinley Illustration by Stephen McQuillan

Once there lived a talking pig named Billy. Billy lived in a field with lots of talking animals. Billy and the horses are great friends and they spent all their time running around the field.

There was a man who lived nearby named John. John was a scary, evil man who liked to do mean things to animals. He had cuts and scares on his face. He was always filthy and his hair was always messy. Nobody liked John because he was bad and liked to hurt animals.

One day Billy was munching on some lovely truffles when he suddenly fell very sick. John had put rat poison in Billy’s Mushrooms. Luckily the farmer happened to be walking through the field and he saw Billy lying in the grass.

He rushed him to the vet, who gave Billy an Injection to make him better.

Meanwhile back at the field, the horses decided to go get revenge for Billy. They kicked John’s car and broke his windows. They dented his car with their big hooves. John arrived and asked, “What are you doing”?

The horses replied, “that’s for hurting our friend Billy”. After that day, John never hurt an animal again and was very sorry.

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Story by Gabriel A Juan Illustration by Jade lawless

“Markus! Stop playing that damn game and come upstairs for dinner!” Mrs. Di Person growled. “Mom SHUT THE HELL UP!” Markus hissed. “I’m very busy now get lost!” Mrs. Di Person looked at her son with a crazy look in her eye. “Well if you don’t be careful you might get sucked into that laptop of yours!” Mrs. Di Person shouted. “Or better yet I’ll just get my hammer and break it for you!” she yelled. “Fat chance, I’ll never take my eyes of this laptop for an instance!” joked Markus.

“Oh hey look an email from…. a turtle?” Markus whispered under his breath. Markus had a confused look on his face. “What’s happening to me?” He shouted. “Everything is becoming slow and weird,” he thought to himself. But suddenly at the speed of light he suddenly he turned pixilated, was zapped into the screen! Surprisingly it was slow to travel so Markus had time to think about what was occurring. “What happened? Was my Mom right? Have I really been sucked into my laptop?” But then he had a flashback. You know, the kind of ones you get when you suddenly die and remember all the things that happened in your life. “Wow” thought Markus, “I’ve wasted my life doing nothing but playing computer games.” It also made Markus realize how he has acted to his mother over the years. “I wish I hadn’t been such a jerk to my Mom.” But then suddenly Markus had been sucked into the main source of the computer. All around him was code and random numbers. Then up above him was a turtle wearing a tuxedo! Markus shouted to him “hey you, yeah you, how can I get out of here?” “Well boy have you learned your lesson?” the turtle replied. “My lesson? What? Yes I’ve learned my lesson! I swear I have!” Markus begged. “Fine very well” said the turtle. Markus whizzed back to reality and found himself back in his bed. It was all a dream. Or was it?

Story by Dylan Durran

Illustration by Barry Flynn Once upon a time there was a princess named Jadenlynne and a prince called Jake. They both were getting married in a week. They had everything planned for their wedding, but in Dark Valley there lived an angry giant. He loved to ruin everything. He had a spy who lived in Fairy-tale Land. The spy told him about the wedding and the giant set out to ruin the wedding.

In Fairy-tale Land, the prince and princess were out having a picnic. Then they saw the giant. The giant took the princess, and the prince chased him and chased him, but the giant disappeared. Then the prince ran back to the village and told everyone about what happened to the princess. They shouted that they didn’t believe him.

Meanwhile in Dark Valley, the giant had chained the princess to the wall.

The giant said that she should be quiet or he would eat her for dinner. Then he sat down and waited for the prince to come. The prince showed the villagers the giant’s tracks and then they believed him.

Then they all set out to save the princess. They got on their horses and set out to get the giant. The fight went on for over three hours. The prince the princess and the villagers defeated the giant.

The wedding went ahead and the prince and princess got married and lived happily ever after.

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My Step Brother and I Story by ABRAHAM Ehonwa Illustration by cAROL GALLAGHER

“What’s that you’re reading?” asked Robert. “Let me see!” my step brother shouted as he took it from my hand. “Give it back, you pig” I roared with anger. “Dad! Robert won’t give me my book back!”. “I wish you guys could get along” said dad. “Why don’t we go on a picnic in Ox Woods?” said Dad, “sure, why not?” answered Robert, “Do we have to go?” I asked with an unpleasant face. “Boys!” my Step-Mum Alice cried, “Come wash the dishes, its your turn”. Robert never washes the dishes, and he started to laugh. I feel like slapping him in the head.

I ran down stairs to do the dishes. When I was finished I made some jam tarts and my favourite Rice Krispie cakes for the picnic. “Guys, it’s time to go.

Alice, put the food in the cooler!” yelled Dad. As I was putting all the food away, I had almost forgot the drinks so I grabbed two bottles of lemonade and then we left. “I know a perfect place” exclaimed Dad. Finally we arrived at the picnic spot”. “Put out the food boys” shouted my Step-Mum . I grabbed one of the jam tarts and gobbled it up, so I decided to take a cool drink of lemonade and I guzzled it up in one go. My Step-Mum looked at me in shock. “I told you to set up the picnic not to eat some of the picnic food!”. “Who cares and I was the one who made them! “ I replied with a horrible look on my face.

“Lets go home now” demanded Dad who was getting angry. “But we just got here” I said with a surprised look on my face. We hopped in the car and drove home. “I can’t believe I’m wasting my summer” said Robert in disgust. “What are you complaining about?” I asked. “I was supposed to be at a party with my friends but your step-dad wouldn’t let me go” Robert continued. “My dad is not stupid, you are stupid and you are a pig too and so is your lazy mom. “Take that back!” I argued.... “No you pig!” said Robert.

“DAD! DAD!”.

Story by Daniel Hennessy Illustration by Your Craig Hoare

In a hole in the ground, there lived a rabbit. It wasn’t a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with worms and a terrible smell. Nor was it a dry, bare sandy hole, with nothing to sit on or nothing to eat. It was a rabbit hole and that meant comfort.

It had a perfectly round door painted green, with a shiny golden knob in the exact middle. The door opened into a tube-shaped hall like a tunnel. It looked a very comfortable tunnel without smoke. It had panelled walls, and tiled floors, finished with polished chairs.

The Rabbit was fond of visitors. He was just sitting down to a cup of tea when he got a visitor. It was a Hobbit. The Rabbit was good friends with the Hobbit. So the Rabbit made some tea and something to eat for the Hobbit.

“This is lovely,” said the Hobbit. “Would you like a dessert?” asked the Rabbit.

“Oh yes please”, exclaimed the Hobbit.

Then, while the Rabbit was eating, someone knocked at the door. “Oh no, it’s a hunter”, said the Rabbit. The hunter shot at them, but couldn’t manage to hit them. Then the hunter heard police sirens in the distance.

“Oh no”, he said, “I have no license for my gun”. He quickly ran thinking he was going to be put in jail.

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Story By: Jack Manning Illustration by: Ciaran Mc Manus

Joseph was playing in his room when his Mam called him for dinner. While he was coming down the stairs his house shook and he slipped and fell down the stairs.

They were going to the supermarket and just when they were about to drive onto the bridge, all of a sudden a meteor came hurdling through the air. BOOM! It hit the bridge. Joseph and his mum got out of the car to see if they could help any survivors.

Later that day they went home to see on the news “twelve people died including four children. Scientists are looking into how this meteor shower hit earth but all they do know is that it wont be moving anytime soon”.

Just then Joseph’s TV antenna got hit by a meteor and the meteor then went crashing through his neighbors house.

Joseph and his Mam thought about moving to the countryside, but that wouldn’t make a difference. So they decided to make a capsule and lived in it until the meteor shower was gone. The meteor shower went on for weeks and weeks and they died of starvation.

The Joker’s Revenge Story by: Conor Neary Illustration by: Christopher Moynihan

In the ‘Joker’s Revenge’ game, Batman is in the courthouse in Arkham City, when a remote control sniper shoots through the window of the courthouse and hits the floor. Batman has to investigate the shot and follows its trail to the Bell Tower. He finds where the shot came form, but walks in on the Joker’s thugs. After taking out all the thugs, he goes to the top of the tower where he finds a sniper gun with explosives and a TV. The Joker appears on the TV and says “you should get out of here before it blows up Bats”.

Batman jumps out of the window just as it blows up. Batman tries to trace the Joker and goes to the steel mill. He takes out all the thugs and gets a new weapon called the Remote Control Gun. However, after being lured to the steel mill by the Joker, Batman is poisoned and falls out of the window.

It was a big scam by the Joker to kill Batman. To survive, Batman has to find the coldest point in Arkham City, which is the old G.C.P.D. building.

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Story by Cedric Orazi Illustration by Ciaran Murphy A 16 year old named Dwayne Carter lived in New Orleans in a rough town called Hollygrove. He left and moved to Manhattan after Hurricane Katrina happened. As he was coming back home from the shop he saw a paper that was hung on the wall. He read the paper to himself. It was a skateboard competition. Dwayne became interested and started practicing.

The problem was that Dwayne didn’t know how to skateboard. “How am I going to compete in this competition if I don’t know how to skateboard?”

Dwayne thought. He began strolling everywhere looking for his friends asking them if they knew how to skateboard but none of them knew. A man named Stanley overheard Dwayne and he went up to him and said “I’m a professional skateboarder”. Dwayne decided to let Stanley teach him how to skateboard. They went off to the skate park where they began the lessons. Stanley taught Dwayne how to ride the board, where to put his feet and how to do ollies and kick flips.

The day of the competition came and as soon as all the competitors came the event started. The entire competition went on for over half an hour. “And the winner is.....Dwayne Carter!” announced the judge. “Well congratulations” said Stanley. “Thank you so much for everything” said Dwayne.

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Story by David Power Illustration by Jamie O’Grady It all started when I was 21 years old. Me and my friends went to a night club. We drank some Pepsi and then we needed to go to the toilet. We were at the toilet and two zombies came out of nowhere. We killed them but there was one zombie behind us. We passed out and woke up in a very foggy and scary place.

We started looking around for some people. Then we saw a car. We looked inside the car and we saw a bag. We opened the bag and there were lots of weapons. So we took it.

Nine zombies came from a shop. I shot one and its head went through the window of a car and then, blew up the car. My friend Bakawani battered one. One came running for me so I hit it with a hammer. Luke strapped a bomb to a zombie and blew it up. Yhan started shooting it with an AK47. All of them died except for one, and Iverson shot his head off with a gun.

Three more came out of a super market. It bit Bakawani and he died. Iverson tried to help him but he got bitten as well. The two of them were dead. We cried.

Me, Luke and Yhan started shooting the zombies. We cried all night long.

Then we didn’t know there was a zombie in the house and we died.

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Story by Julius Savickis Illustration by Niall O’ sullivan

Mr. Claws, (also know as Bazil Palelo), was checking out the criminal records when he found something unusual. He noticed that Dr. Zeus was in it. His location was in the Ace Chemicals Building. What could he be doing there?

Mr. Claws made his way to the Ace Chemicals Building. The front door was locked. “Dang” grunted Mr. Claws with anger. He looked for another route, still no luck. “I will have to go to the roof”, he thought and break through the roof window. Mr. Claws managed to scale the roof, “before I break into it I need to see what is going on” he thought.

Peering through the roof window, it looked like Dr. Zeus was doing an experiment, well that was until he started to drink it! Then Hell broke loose.

Dr. Zeus started to turn into a demon. He was growing huge fangs and growing giant wings. No, wait, it wasn’t a demon, it was an enormous bat !

Mr. Claws broke into the building. “Looks like a little bat has broke loose from his cage” said Mr. Claws with a grin on his face. “Shut it Claws,” shouted Dr. Zeus. He commenced to attack. He stunned Claws and began fierce fully punching his stomach. Claws groaned with pain. He knew if he didn’t “suck it up” and reverse a punch he would be beaten.

Claws timed it just right and caught one of Zeus’s attacks and flipped Zeus on his back. Within seconds Claws had cuffed Zeus and was strolling away.

“Nighty-night bat-boy” chuckled Claws as he marched away.

The Alien Attack

the ALIEN ATTACK Story by JORDAN Walsh Illustration by CAROL GALLAGHER

One day there was a family of five having a good day; Mam, Dad and their three children. The children were finished school and they were doing their homework. When they finished their homework they decided to play Fifa 12 on their Xbox. Billy, one of the children, was playing against his brother, John. Billy was Man United and John was Barcelona. Billy won 3-2 and then just as Jack, the other child, went to play, they heard a bang.

Suddenly, they saw an alien climbing through the window. The alien put them all to sleep and when they woke up they were tied up against the wall, helpless. One of the brothers peeked out the window and saw that all the buildings were being torn down and new buildings were being built. Then, Billy whispers to John, “I need a drink, I’m getting dehydrated”. John saw a drink and answered back, “here, drink this”.

After a few minutes, Billy transformed into a superhero with super powers, so he decided to fight the aliens. Finally, he found them and shouted “NOW THAT I HAVE SUPER POWERS I CAN FIGHT YOU AND YOUR FRIEND”. Very very quickly, Billy flew to the ground and picked up a metal bar and he hit the aliens so hard with it that they dropped to the ground. The guards soon came and arrested the aliens.

The world was rebuilt and everything was back to normal, but Billy still has his super powers.

The Dangerous Man Story by Moses zola Illustration Cormac walsh

One dark stormy night Alex, Jamie and their dad Jack were watching a film. “Hey Alex can you get me and Jamie more popcorn downstairs” asked Jack.”Okay dad” answered Alex. He went downstairs to go get the popcorn.......boom!!

They heard a big bang so Jack and Jamie ran downstairs and they saw Alex on the ground full of blood, “Call 911! Quickly! call 911!“ shouted Jack. Jamie got the phone and called the ambulance.

Jack was covering Alex’s chest with his hand so the blood would not spread any further. The ambulance came, “Jamie go to the hospital with your brother, I’ll be back soon“ Jack told Jamie. “Okay dad“ answered Jamie. Jack saw a guy with a mask on and a gun on his hand. The ambulance left the house.

Jack went to that person with a gun on his hand. Jack saw his name tag and it wrote Jefferson. “I know that name“ whispered Jack to himself. “Oh yeah Jefferson that guy I put in jail“ whispered Jack to himself again.

“Freeze police!“ shouted Jack. Jefferson ran away and Jack chased after him. Jefferson ran around the block but Jack stopped and went in through the alley and caught Jefferson and put him in the police car. “Thank you Jack we have been looking for him for a long time” said the policeman.

“Sorry but I have to get back to the hospital“ announced Jack. Jack went back to the hospital. “How is he?“ asked Jack to the doctor. “We are taking him to the surgery room“ the doctor replied. Jack was wandering up and down the hospital with his hand on his head. Three hours later and the doctor speaks to Jack “He is okay but we have to keep him here for a few days“. Jack was relieved.

Story by roxana Andrecut illustration by karen brennan One cold October day,a girl named Lucy ,who wasn’t very good at history, was having a huge history test. Her history teacher, Mrs Browne, was a very mean and horrible teacher.

Mrs Browne gave each student a sheet which had the questions on it and Lucy was struggling with the very first question. A few minutes later she heard muttering and weird voices and when she looked around she saw a ghost! The ghost turned to her and said “hello, my name is Lucy and that’s where I sat when I took my test, its the exact same one!” Lucy replied “really?..em..can you do my test?”

Just as she was about to finish her sentence the teacher looked up and saw her speaking. “Lucy! be quiet and do your test, you don’t have much time left you know!” Lucy sat in and whispered to the ghost “have you been dead long?” “Oh yes” replied the ghost “for millions of years , I come back every year to help students to do their test. Let me help you with yours.” So Lucy sat back and let the ghost do all the work.

When the test was finished a while later, Lucy handed it up to the teacher and whispered to the ghost “thank you!”. But when the results of the test came back, disaster struck! Lucy found her name at the very bottom of the notice board with 0%. Now Lucy knows, never to trust a ghost again!

Todays Test :

The birthday party Story by Bianca Bobowicz Illustration by Jade lawless

On the 4th of November it was my Cousin’s birthday. Her Mum bought her a big cake and a bike because she was going to have a birthday party. My Mum and I bought her the new Justin Bieber “Girlfrend” perfume because she loves Justin Bieber. With the Justin Bieber “Girlfriend” perfume she got a body lotion which I knew she would like. My Granny gave her fifty-euro to spend on whatever she liked! She got a lot of other presents too. It was so cool to be at her party. We all had a great time. My friends and me got to eat cake too. I can’t wait until my next birthday.

Story by Megan Larey Illustration by Barry Flynn

One beautiful summer’s day Rose was going through the forest looking for some cranberries to make cranberry juice. She was wearing a light pink dress with white polka-dots on it and a pair of white shoes. Rose was looking for hours and hours but she couldn’t find any cranberries. Rose was about to give up when she spotted something running around the trees, so she started shouting “Hello? Is anyone there?” but nobody answered.

Rose muttered to herself just wondering who or what it could be? Rose remained searching for the person or animal running around the forest, then out of nowhere a tiny little rabbit came out from behind the tree and came up to Rose. Rose thought he was so cute! When Rose picked him up she petted him, but he was crying. Rose didn’t know why he was crying and then she saw his foot.

His foot was all swollen and cut, he had caught his foot on a thorn bush and that’s why he had made so much noise by the trees. Rose didn’t know why he was crying and mumbled to herself “If only you could talk, then I could help you.” And then the unbelievable happened he talked and announced “I hurt my foot please help me!” Rose was in shock and she said “Okay I will help you.” She pulled the thorn out of his foot and he said “FOLLOW ME!” So Rose followed him and he said “Watch this!” and he pulled a branch from a tree and then a whole different dimension of a colourful magical forest appeared. Rose was in so much shock that she had to sit down. The rabbit told her to “Follow me” once more and then he said “Do you see that castle there? It’s yours for the rest of eternity.” Rose was so happy because her parents weren’t very nice to her, so Rose decided to stay there with the prince. Rose and the prince got married and lived happily ever after with lots of children.

Story by Daiana Damoc Illustration by Your Aura Pop

Some children love school, waking up in the morning, getting dressed, seeing their friends and working hard. Mary hated school, she liked working but what she didn’t like was walking into the school gates scared that someone would pick on her. Not just anyone, Georgia Fitzgerald in 6th class. Mary was only in 4th class and got bullied by Georgia everyday, going to school, in school and at home. Mary never talked about it to anyone, not even her parents. She was scared it would get even worse.

One day Mary woke up and didn’t want to go to school. She didn’t want to get bullied anymore but she couldn’t tell her mam so she went away.

Mary sprinted into the school, so Georgia wouldn’t see her but just then Georgia saw her and asked “ Where are you going?” Mary struggled to answer. Georgia asked her again. Mary muttered “ To my line.” Georgia looked at her and said “I’ll get you after school.” Mary ran to her line with tears in her eyes.

She went into her class and wanted the day to go really slow, she didn’t want to see Georgia after school.

It was time and Mary strolled home. She saw her and tried to run but couldn’t. Georgia called her nasty names like “Specky” and “Four Eyes” because she wore glasses. She punched her in the stomach too. Mary ran home crying she told her Mam what Georgia did to her. Her Mam got so angry that she went to Georgia’s house to tell her Mam. Georgia moved school because everyone hated her. Mary never saw Georgia again.

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Story By Grace Dionga Illustration by Your Craig Hoare

Once, there was a girl named Annbell. She had no friends and had a mean brother, Sam. She always got teased in school and never told anyone, except for her invisible friend, Sally. Sally may be invisible, but she cheered up Annbell most of the time. Her parents, Dave and Linda, were too busy to know what was wrong with her.

Annbell had never told anyone about her teasing before, but today was the day. She could feel it. The three meanest girls in school were Jade, Ellie and Lily. They went over to Annbell and started to make fun of her clothes.

Annbell broke into tears and said, “Leave me alone, or - or - or I’ll tell the teacher on you.” Then Annbell thought, “I should stand up to these girls and show them what I’m made of!” She eventually worked up her courage, but still, it didn’t work.

The next day, Annbell told her parents nothing, because she had a plan. She decided to tell the principal. The principle called all three of the bullies into her office. They were ordered to say sorry and write an apology. They were also suspended for two weeks.

Annbell could now eat and play in peace since they left her alone after that.

I hope they learned their lesson. All the bullies’ parents came into the school and grounded them from wearing make-up and fake nails.

Annbell is now free to do what she wants to do.

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Story by: Aoife Kelehan Illustrated by: Ciaran Mc Manus

“Bye mum, bye Dad” Harry yelled with excitement as he picked up his bag and headed in the direction of the jungle. Passing through his neighborhood he took in all the bright colourful flowers growing in between the grass. Harry wondered was he making the right decision leaving his family to go on an adventure to the worlds most dangerous jungle. It took Harry a whole two days to reach the jungle.

When he reached the edge of the jungle Harry paced forwards and backwards deciding if he should enter the jungle or not. He finally entered! He had a very confusing map, he didn’t know where he was going. He soon realised he was walking around in circles. He kept going on soon found himself at a field surrounded by little huts. He seen animals with three legs and no fur and some with no eyes! With the fright he had gotten and his bad luck, he jumped back landing in a big wet swamp. “Ughhh! This is it, I’ve had enough” weeped Harry.

He knew himself that it wasn’t a pleasant journey. It was quite funny with him falling over and he did see many interesting creatures. “I’m proud, very proud” laughed Harry as he looked up at the sky and continued walking through the cold, wet, dark jungle, on his great adventure.

Dumb Maka Story by: Soleil Lomingo Illustration by: Christopher Moynihan Maka and his wife, Mabla, were two crocodiles who lived by the river.

Mabla was very sick so they went to the doctor. The doctor said Maka had to find the heart of a monkey for his wife so she could live. So Maka set out to search for one. He looked everywhere in the jungle but couldn’t find one.

When he got home his wife was worse and he felt so ashamed of himself for not finding a heart. Meanwhile, a monkey called Brogani was watching him “That Maka will never get my heart”, Brogani laughed. He thought Maka was a dumb crocodile.

The next day Maka met Brogani and asked if he could kill him so he could have his heart. Brogani said that he had left his heart up in the tree so Maka went up and stayed there for ages looking for it. That night Maka and his wife went back to the doctor because Mabla was so sick. When they got there, the doctor told them he had a heart for Mabla because Brogani’s brother had died.

Mabla was saved and they celebrated by having a party.

Story by Cledia Luzolo Illustration by Ciaran Murphy Once upon a time there lived a fifteen year old girl named Sophia Conway.

She lived with her Mum, Dad, two Sisters and three Brothers. She lived in a castle. You can find it in Cork. One day she asked her parents to go out, but they said “What are going to do there? No! ” Sophia wanted to go to her friend’s house to play there and also stay there, because there was nothing to do in her house and it was boring.

Her friend’s names were Sarah, Leah, Jade, Jake, Jess and Bob. She wanted to go to their houses everyday when she felt bored. One night, her parents asked “Why do you want to go to your friends in the middle of the night?”

Sophia answered “Because I am so bored”. They all went to bed.

The next morning she still wanted to go to her friend’s house. Her Mum was starting to get annoyed. “Stop asking me to leave the house, your friends are coming over tomorrow so relax”. “But what time are they coming over at?” Sophia kept asking. “Oh maybe ten o’clock in the morning” her Mother said. When it was time to go to school Sophia was annoyed. In school she met her friends. When Sophia came home she went over to Sarah’s house.

It was Sarah’s seventeenth birthday. They played lots of games. Sarah won €400 euro and Sophia won €140 by playing guess who. When Sophia got home it was night time. She went to bed and had a dream about a musician and a dancer. The musician was in the circus and a dancer was in a ballet class.

Story by Kerrie Manning Illustration by Jamie O’Grady It was a dark, stormy night in Los Angeles. Ciara and Adam were fast asleep in their bed. Their house was quiet, not a sound was made. Everywhere was flooded with water. The water was 5 ft deep and cars were ruined.

Suddenly, Ciara and Adam awoke with the noise of thunder. They were terrified. They didn’t know what to do. Ciara whispered to Adam “It’s ok. Try and avoid it.” “I can’t” replied Adam. “It’s too noisy.” So, Adam went into his Mam and Dad’s bedroom and cried “Mam, Dad, I’m scared.” His Mam whispered “It’s ok. It’s only thunder. Try and go back to bed!” So, Adam went back to bed and fell back asleep.

Ciara then awoke with the sound of someone shouting “HELP!” Ciara jumped out of her bed and ran to the window. She looked out and had seen that people’s houses were flooded with water. She was amazed that the water had gotten so high. She ran out onto her landing and seen that her hall was flooded with water. She yelled “Mam, Dad, get up! Our house is in floods.” They jumped up out of bed and ran down stairs in their pajamas.

They tried to get the phone to ring the police but it was in the kitchen. So she ran in and got the phone and ran back out. She dialed 911! It rang and rang but nobody answered.

Then the electricity went out and they all got scared. They all ran back up into Mam and Dad’s bedroom and onto the bed. They prayed that the rain would stop but it didn’t. It got even worse. So they knew, if they stayed in the house, they would die. So they got out of the house and swam to safety!

The Storm

Story by Jessica Mullen Illustration by Niall O’ Sullivan

One day in a dull forest a lonely bear named Chubby was sad because he had no friends. Chubby had no friends because everybody was afraid of him. After sitting around for a while he decided to find a friend.

He was walking through forest and everyone he saw ran away from him.

Everyone was afraid of him because he was tall, he was chubby, had a deep voice and had big feet.

Then Chubby said “Does anyone want to be my friend” to the people he walked past. They shouted “Ahhhhh” and ran away.

Chubby continued walking along the forest until a little mouse popped out of the bushes. The little mouse screamed “Does anyone want to be my friend” and with that “ Chubby said “I’ll be your friend”. Chubby asked the mouse what his name was, and the mouse replied” My name is Rambo”.

Rambo and Chubby walked through the forest and went to Chubby’s house and had a lovely drink of lemonade. They became great friends and never had arguments and never nagged at each other. Chubby was happy for the rest of his life because he finally had a friend.

Story by Franka Omamina Illustration by Aura Pop

Hello my name is Rapunzel. I know that you think of me as the girl with long hair that lets people climb up my hair, but this is another Rapunzel story.

I live in New York City, where most dreams come true. I still live with my Mam and Step-Dad. Today is my 20th birthday. I am having a little party for a few of my friends and myself. We are going to order pizza and watch a scary movie.

My Mam says that if I change my mind I can have my party in the restaurant.

Sometimes I work there at the weekends to give a helping hand if any of the staff are out sick.

Whoops! Forgot that my party’s about to “Ding! Dong!” Start. I need to get out of my jeans and t-shirt and get into my new dress. Oh My God, I forgot to leave out the snacks. “Ding! Dong!” Done changing, going downstairs in my new heels “Clink! Clonk!” I open the door and my friends are standing there, so I tell them to come in. They all give me my presents and we go into the sitting room to get ready for the movie. Half an hour later we make the popcorn and begin to watch “Blood Zombie 4”. The movie isn’t that scary, no murders in it. Last year, my Step-Dad dressed up as a chain-sawer but he didn’t scare me!

It’s time for all my friends to go. I say bye o them and go to my room to get ready for bed. Soon I’m fast asleep.

Goodbye!

Charlie’s ball Story by adetoun oyinloye Illustration by Cormac walsh

Once upon a time, there was a little boy named Charlie. He was out in the woods looking for his ball. His magical ball. The magical ball could do all sorts of things, like, travel to different countries and make wishes come true.

That day the wicked witch of the woods came across Charlie’s ball. She picked up the ball and began to play with it. Then she asked herself “I wish I had more room“. Suddenly all the trees pushed away. She then though t the ball was magical. She tried another and it came true. Now the witch knew the ball was magical.

Charlie saw the witch playing with the ball and quickly ran over. Charlie asked for his ball in a polite way. The witch looked at Charlie and replied “No“ in a squeaky voice.

Charlie picked up his self-confidence and demanded the witch to give him his ball back. The witch still said “No“. Charlie was getting a bit annoyed with the witch. Charlie now asked kindly “Can I have my ball back?“. The witch still said “No“.

Charlie became very sad and started to cry. The witch felt a little sympathy for him, but she still continued to play with the ball. The witch asked him why did she want the ball so bad. Charlie then said I need it to get back or he will be stuck her for ages. The witch decided to give back the ball back to Charlie on one condition. The condition was Charlie would never come back here again. Charlie agreed and went back home.

Story by lEAH ROBINSON illustration by karen brennan

One day, a girl named Daisy started a new school. Daisy was very friendly and always nice to everyone but nobody was nice to her, except a lovely girl named Chloe.

Daisy’s birthday was coming up soon and she wanted to have a sleepover so she asked her Mam could she have one. She said yes, so Daisy asked her new friend,Chloe.

It came to the next day and Chloe asked Daisy if they could watch a scary film. Daisy said “Yes, when my Mam goes to bed.” Chloe came over at about four o’clock. Daisy’s Mam ordered the girls a pizza and soon it was midnight. They started playing “Truth Or Dare” and Chloe dared Daisy to go downstairs in the dark by herself. They both went downstairs and got some sweets. They brought a scary film with them called “Your Next!”.

They started watching the film and began to get very scared. Daisy’s Mam came in and caught them watching the scary film, she told them to turn it off and get to bed straight away. But after a while, they turned the film back on and got so scared they couldn’t even sleep.

The next day they were so tired, they were falling asleep into their cereal!

When it came to Chloe’s birthday, Daisy was invited to her sleepover. Lots of their friends from school were there. They all watched a scary film together and Daisy and Chloe stayed best friends with each other, all the way through school.

V P S L E E ER S

Super Burn-out girl!

Story by Mykela sullivan Illustration by tara foy

Louise walked into the fair, tents and stalls all around her. She loved it, it was like a circus. After being there an hour, Louise decided she needed a drink so she went to one of the stalls to get one.

Little did she know that under this fair, was a professor’s laboratory. This mad professor made all different types of potions. He came up from his lab to the fair carrying one of these special potions. He also wanted to get a drink and left his potion down on the counter. Louise accidently grabbed the potion and drank it. She then burst into flames and flew up into the sky.

She had become Super Burn-Out Girl! In a fit of rage blew up all stalls below her. Mothers and fathers ran with their children to escape.

The mad professor then ran back down to his laboratory and emerged again with two huge buckets of water. The only way to change Louise back was to drench her in water. Just as the professor got back to the fair the skies opened and it began raining very heavily. Super Burn-Out Girl fell to the ground with a huge thump!

Everyone gathered around her trying to wake her up. Eventually the professor woke her and she couldn’t remember a thing.

The Adventures of Jade City Story by Nick Oguntuase Illustration by tara foy

“Evacuate Evacuate” said the captain. “Grab a life preserver and jump off the ship”!

Jaden and Michael jumped clutching onto each other. The ship had crashed into a big rock and had a big hole in it. They looked all around and they saw and exotic island ahead and swam towards it.

Once they got there Michael got rocks and spelt S.O.S. with them while Jaden got sticks in case of quick sand. When it got dark they built a fort out of leaves and slept. Jaden woke up really early and made spears for them Then it happened. A fierce puma jumped out with no hesitation at Michael.

Then it froze and disappeared.

“I’ve got a feeling we aren’t in Detroit anymore” said Michael.

“That’s just dumb we weren’t in Detroit anyway” replied Jaden.

Soon after, they found a city full of jade. They explored the city until they found a mansion with an amber pocketknife at the doorstep but they went in and found the jade in-crusted in beds.

Eventually, when they went to bed they had a dream that a dark figure was outside the mansion. Then they woke up and the figure was there. All of a sudden, they were at Jaden’s house with a book and three times their weight in gold, jade and amber.

Story by Glen arthurs Illustration by michelle eccles

One horrible, stormy night, a little boy called Patrick awaited the birth of his new little brother. Little did he know a dangerous demon known as the Ware-Pig had cast a spell on Patrick’s parents. An evil force now controlled their innocent new baby Terrance.

As soon as his parents brought Terrance home, Patrick knew all was not well. The little baby screamed and squealed and bit every one he came into contact with. So Patrick knew that the evil Ware-Pig was controlling Terrance.

As Terrance grew up, he became more dangerous. He would fight and bite them with every opportunity he could. Terrance even attacked his own parents and bit his mother’s nose off.

Patrick was so angry he wanted to put a stop to this evil and protect his family. A bitter battle began between the two brothers and the evil Ware-Pig revealed himself. Patrick knew it wouldn’t be easy to kill him to save his family but he tried.

Patrick chopped off the Ware-Pig’s toes but too his amazement they grew back straight away! He remembered his friend told him the only way the Ware-Pig would die is if you stab him in the heart.

Terrance passed Patrick one of his toys and he stabbed him in the heart.

The Ware-Pig vanished and all the evil left Terrance. The boys were glad the Ware-Pig and his evil powers were gone forever.

The Virus Story by Nathan fitzgerald Illustration by mihaela apostol

It was a cold night. The moon was bright as a mad man jumped out in front of Gina and dragged her away. She was evacuating the city because of a virus that turns you to dust if you catch it. The virus came into existence because of a science experiment that had gone wrong. The mad man was now dragging her back towards the city.

They only had two hours to get out of the danger zone or they would turn to dust. Gina was in real trouble, she started to scream but no one heard her. She tried to escape but couldn’t. She was going to die a horrid death and she knew it. All she could do now was try and delay it for as long as she could. Eventually they reached the chemical plant and she knew what was there and what was going to happen next.

He dragged her into the main room where the virus was born. He started laughing and said “you will be the first to die as a result of my creation”. He was standing next to an open part of a barrier. So Gina said “get real” and kicked him into the vat of the virus. He started to melt. But it was too late for Gina because she began to turn to dust.

It was a hot sunny day in Aran. Sox8 was chasing down his arch-enemy Dark. He had lost him through the black market, but as he was a senior ranked agent, he was clever and had put a tracking device on him.

All the agents returned from Aran. The boss K said, “the problem is that all our agents names are on the phone Dark stole”. All the agents were now in danger. “You will go down to the training room, then the weapons room and then into the partner’s room to meet your partner” K said. “Go to your car and then to the airport. Your destination is America”.

Sox8 would have to find Dark in his office and smash the door in. The other agents Randy, Coz, Bart, Milo and Oscar were captured by Dark and were in danger. “Please you must save them,” said K. “I have done it I’m in” said Sox8 to K. “I see the phone it looks to easy.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh - secret trap door, smart!” yelled Sox8. “Ah Mister Eight, I’ve been expecting you” sneered K. Sox8 was trapped in a cage, but he had a laser and broke the lock on it. “You’re going down,” said Sox8. He had won and saved the other agents.

Story by Kian Hanlon Illustration by dan butler

I’d been assigned to watch over the biologics research team. Now a nameless fear awoke in my heart as I was being sent to investigate a strange life-form that the G.F.C had discovered on a strange planet; ‘Series’. It was there that I was attacked by a life-form I had never encountered before. It was only later that I knew the identity of my attacker: The parasitic organism we now know as X. So once again I found myself on the surface of Series.

As my ship docked on Series, my C.O. informed me that there had been an explosion in the quarantine bay. Ignoring it, I pushed on. I didn’t really get a warm welcome on that wet rainy day on Series,but I knew what had to be done. I jumped down a ditch ready to fight. Then, there it was, Mother Brain, leader of the space pirates. I began to shoot missiles at her but it didn’t work. I was done for.

Suddenly, a large ghost-like creature flew through a nearby wall and began to suck the life-force out of the brain. Thinking fast, I started the self destruct sequence, climbed out of the ditch, hopped into my ship and flew off, knowing that I owe that creature my life. If I shall ever see it again I shall help it in its time of need. My name is Seamus, and that is what happened on Series.

StorY by JASON KIDD Illustration by Greg callan

James Heller closed his eyes but it did not help. The van was flipping on it’s side. It stopped on a rail line.

James was losing blood fast but he still crawled out of the van. He screamed in pain but no one heard him he was stuck because his leg was damaged.

His wife was dead in the van. After a while he passed out and woke in a hospital bed in Dublin. He asked the doctor on duty where he was or most importantly who was he?

After a lecture about the human mind from the doctors, he was let go and told that his memory would come back eventually. Soon he started piecing his memory back together. Then it hit him like a punch. In a flashback, he could see the driver of the articulated lorry driving into them.

This image stayed in his head. He tried the media and offered a reward for information on what he said was his wife’s killer. He didn’t realise that the lorry driver had felt guilty everyday since it happened.

The driver turned himself in and James went to see him. It was a very emotional meeting. Anger, hate and heartbreak turned to sorrow and forgiveness when James heard that the driver had felt guilty everyday.

They had both suffered enough he thought.

AMNESIA

President of ireland.

Story by Rasaq Lawal Illustration by Conor Corrigan

Rasaq Lawal was after beating Michael D. Higgins in the Presidential Election. They both fought well but the best boy won. Now Higgins is out for Rasaq and is trying to get him kicked out of his job. Rasaq is wearing Nike and Adidas clothes and shoes on adverts and Michael D. Higgins is jealous and out for revenge! Rasaq Lawal says and I quote “our people are going to see change”. His slogan is “yes we can”.

Rasaq attended St Patrick’s primary school, Riversdale secondary school and ITB College so he has a fantastic education and he is a handsome man.

Michael D. Higgins said this about Mr Lawal, “you’re not going to get away with this scam and you’re just trying to take all of our money”. He also says “the people have chosen the wrong person, if Lawal is president Ireland will crumble and become one of the poorest countries in Europe. Lawal has visited some poor countries and helped them build schools and he has lent some money.

A week later Lawal went missing, Michael D. Higgins had ordered his capture and Rasaq was brought to a warehouse to be questioned. Lawal did not give into Higgins questions. Under increased pressure from the public, Higgins had to give in and admit to the people that Lawal was captured by suicide bombers in a warehouse. If anyone entered they would bomb them all. So the police brought an elite army member who has got a licence to kill. His name is Bond, James Bond. He busted into the warehouse and killed everyone in sight and got Mr Lawal out. Michael D. Higgins was sent to jail for 5 years and his last words were “I’ll get you Lawal you lousy man”.

Rasaq bought a Bugatti Ferrari and lived a great life.

I’ ll get you Lawal you lousy man!

Story by Mustapha Muibideen Illustration by Sean Finnegan

Several years ago the most evil child on the planet died in a tragic car accident. His name was Jack. Once Jack arrived in hell he instantly became friends with the devil. The devil soon realised that there was one who was even more evil than he was. Soon the evil child began to whisper ideas of the apocalypse in the ear of the devil.

So persuasive was Jack that the devil soon agreed to help him with his plan of the world’s destruction. A couple of years later, Jack was sent back to earth with all the power he would need to destroy everyone.

He began by killing all the people in every country. Every country had been destroyed in a matter of days. All that remained was Jack’s home country of Brazil. It didn’t take until only a hand full of people remained. Out of nowhere came all the angels down from heaven. God had sent them in a desperate attempt to save his people.

The devil knew that God might try this and summoned all his demons to help the evil child. The angels and demons began fighting ferociously in the sky. The battle became the most intensely violent the world had ever seen.

God and the devil knew that the other would have to intervene if either side wanted to win the battle for earth.

As God and the devil collided a huge bomb like blast went off, which destroyed everything that it touched. The world was no more. All that remained was the lifeless body of a little boy with a horrible smile etched across his little face.

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Story by sinaly nyafa Illustration by Ciara Gaughan The Anderson family were very poor. They were so poor they could only afford a shack on the edge of Lagos city. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson had two sons, Michael and James. Mrs. Anderson was expecting her third child in a few months.

They were so poor, Mr. Anderson went begging in the city everyday. He sat down and pretended to be blind. When he peaked to check how much he had collected, he saw a brown envelope in his hat. This was very mysterious so he glanced round him to make sure nobody was looking and he ripped open the envelope. Inside there was just a piece of paper with a few words written in blood red ink……”if you want money you must say the Grand Master three times”. He closed his eyes and began to say Grand Master three times. When he opened his eyes he found himself in the devil’s playground. A dark lonely figure was walking slowly towards him. In a mysterious voice he said “if you want money you must kill your family and even your unborn child”. With that the man turned and walked away laughing in an evil way.

When Mr. Anderson opened his eyes he found himself back on the street begging. After another couple of hours begging Mr. Anderson grew tired and decided it was time to go home to his family. His wife asked how much did he earn. He lied to his family and told them they were rich beyond their wildest dreams. Mrs. Anderson was so surprised that she raised her gown and started to dance happily around the shack and out into the forest.

Her husband and children followed her joining in with the dance. As they went deeper into the forest it grew quite dark. Mrs. Anderson grew worried about the darkness and decided to turn around and head back. When she turned around Mr. Anderson had his gun pointed straight at her. She let out a scream and tried to run but he fired the gun anyway, killing her. When the children heard their mother scream they both legged it back towards their shack. However they didn’t quite make it. Their father was quicker than they were. He shot them as they were still running. Mr. Anderson returned home to the shack without a backwards glance. All he could think of was the money he would get.

The next morning, he was excited to see the Grand Master and finally earn his prize.

He got out of bed only to find the bodies of his family on his bed and their ghosts in the mirror. He let out a terrified scream. The ghost of his wife struck him by the neck with fire.

Mr. Anderson fell to the ground with bloody money in his mouth. The Grand Master came out of nowhere. Mrs. Anderson and her two children fought with the Grand Master. While this was going on Mr. and Mrs. Anderson’s unborn child transformed into a snake.

The Grand Master didn’t see the snake inching towards him ready to bite. The snake bit him and filled him with poison. The Grand Master fell to the ground dead. He could no longer harm any other families with his cruel ways. With the Grand Master dead his evil spell was broken and all the hurt he caused was but right. The ghosts of Mrs. Anderson are her children were returned to their bodies were they came back to life.

The Survival Games Story by nick oguntuase Illustration by gavin geraghty

“Evacuate Evacuate” said the captain. “Grab a life preserver and jump off the ship”. Jaden and Michael jumped clutching onto each other. The ship had crashed into a big rock and had a big hole in it. They looked all around and they saw and exotic island ahead and swam towards it.

Once they got there Michael got rocks and spelt S.O.S. with them while Jaden got sticks in case of quick sand. When it got dark they built a fort out of leaves and slept. Jaden woke up really early and made spears for them.

Then it happened! A fierce puma jumped out with no hesitation at Michael.

Then it froze and disappeared.

“I’ve got a feeling we aren’t in Detroit anymore”, said Michael.

“That’s just dumb we weren’t in Detroit anyway”, replied Jaden.

“Soon after, they found a city full of jade. They explored the city until they found a mansion with an amber pocket knife at the doorstep but they went in and found the jade encrusted in beds.

Eventually, when they went to bed they had a dream that a dark figure was outside the mansion. Then they woke up and the figure was there. All of a sudden, they were at Jaden’s house with a book and three times their weight in gold, jade and amber.

Story by Tommy O’ Neill Illustration by Kaya keats

One summer’s day Sarah and her dad went horse riding. Her dad’s horse was faster. Sarah got lost in the forest and cried after her father but he left.

She heard scary noises but she was relieved that it was only birds tweeting in their nest. Then she heard a beep of a car, the horse was startled and fell under the car. Sarah cried and ran screaming for her father. She saw her father’s horse’s footsteps and followed them. She saw her dad’s hat and feared he might be dead.

Sarah was confused, upset and lost walking through the forest until she came to a river. Suddenly she slipped, falling into the river. She was unable to swim so she clung onto a rock. Out of no-where, Sarah’s father heard her screaming and ran over to rescue her. He helped her out of the river. They were so happy to see each other.

They tried to find their way out of the forest but it kept getting darker and darker and colder and colder. They came to a dark and creepy house where there was a note on the door for them. Sarah jumped when she heard a phone ringing. She found it in the flower plant and answered it.

Sarah’s wicked step-mother screamed and shouted, telling Sarah’s dad she is going to get him! Then she jumped from the house and released a vicious dog. The dog riped her father’s heart out killing him.

Sarah bravely rang the police and they arrested the mother. Sarah’s mother got locked up and died in jail. Sarah went to live with her Nanny and Granddad.

The Ghost Master Story by Dennis Abewu Illustration by Conor Redmond

The day was cold. The cave was damp, and even colder than it was outside.

Devin and I were looking for a camping spot and this cave was the best place. Suddenly we heard sounds. The Ghost Master was upon us!

We tried to run, but we were frozen to the spot with fear. Suddenly, we were all the way back to the other side of the forest. We realised that he had taken our bodies and souls and turned us into ghosts. We soon learned the only way to destroy the Ghost Master was to trap him in a mirror and smash it. The problem was how could we get all the way back to the cave?

Then I remembered, I had a Ferrari. We got to the cave an hour later and prepared to fight.

We saw the Ghost Master with our bodies and we made a plan that Devin distracted the ghost, while I trapped and smashed it. But unfortunately, it wasn’t that simple. He saw us and started choking us. But I managed to escape. Devin kicked the Ghost Master in the face and ran my way. I was hidden behind a wall and as soon as I heard the ghost coming I jumped out in front of it and trapped it in the glass. Then,with no second thought, I smashed the glass and our souls returned to us. We got up and congratulated each other. We destroyed the Ghost Master and continued our camping.

The Mysterious Phone calls Story by I.K Orumwense Illustration by Jonny Rowen

Suddenly the phone rang. Tom jumped out of the chair and ran to answer it. There was nobody there, so he put the phone back, and sat down in the great armchair. He waited for the next call. He thought it was his mum as he was expecting her home from work. She worked at a hospital.

Night fell, his mum still hadn’t arrived home. The phone rang again. He was very scared now. He turned on the lights and thought he spotted a robber in the kitchen. He ran upstairs and hid under his bed. He was horrified.

Suddenly he heard a mans voice shouting, “I’M GOING TO KILL YOU.“ Tom screamed with fright. Just then, he heard someone barging through the front door and it slammed behind them. It was a second robber. He wanted to call the police, but was too scared the robbers would get him and kill him.

Next he heard his mum’s voice downstairs. He wanted to tell her to leave but he wasn’t quick enough. The robbers had already killed her. He heard her screaming below him.

He then heard footsteps on the stairs, so Tom ran up to the attic to hide.

The attic was dark and very damp. The robber spotted Tom and followed him with a gun. Before he could take another step, He shot Tom and dragged him out to the back garden. He just lay there. The police arrived.

They caught the two robbers and shot them both dead.

Chuckie the ghost by ricky osagie Illustration by aisling smith

There were seven people in the family. One of the children called Chuckie had a doll named Devil. One day, when the rest of the family went out shopping, Chuckie was playing with Devil. Devil has a sister called Vampy.

Chuckie went to sleep. Devil got a knife and stabbed Chuckie. Suddenly Devil and Vampy heard a noise, it was Chuckie’s parents.

His father, Sean, called Chuckie. He didn’t answer because he was dead.

The rest of the children were outside. One of them, Rene, went to get Devil.

Rene crept into Chuckie’s room to try scare him but it didn’t work. Rene stood as a statue for two minutes and screamed at the top of his voice.

Everyone came sprinting upstairs. His mum, Jessica, saw Chuckie dead on his bed. Nobody could believe it.

Two weeks later, at midnight, there was a sound downstairs. Sean went to go see, no one was there. He heard it again, still no one there. The third time he checked, Chuckie’s ghost appeared and had a knife. He killed his father with a stab to the neck. He said “one down, five to go”.

It was four in the morning. Cregg, Chuckie’s older brother, went downstairs into the kitchen to get a drink; suddenly Chuckie axed Cregg’s head off. Chuckie whispered “Two down, four to go”. With a smile on Chuckie’s face, he went upstairs to kill his mother. His mother was sleeping upstairs without knowing that her husband was dead. Chuckie killed one of his other siblings instead of his mother. The next morning she died from drink driving and so the rest of the children became orphans.

Story by shauna byrne Illustration by mihaela apostol

A girl was walking her dog late one evening. Her name was Molly. The wind picked up and big drop’s of rain began to fall. She decided they would take a short cut through a field. It was quite dark as the moon was their only source of light. That’s when she felt her dog, a Golden Retriever called Max, strain on the lead. Then his collar slipped off and he ran. She found him moments later barking and scratching at what appeared to be overgrown bushes and rubbish. As Molly tried to get Max on his lead she noticed he had something in his mouth. At first she thought it was a rat but when she made him drop it she realised it was a human arm. Molly and Max ran home to tell her parents about their find. She got worried as clouds started to hide the moonlight, but they were quick and made it in time.

When they got inside their garden Molly made Max drop the arm. She staggered through the front door, Max at her heels. When her parents saw how white her face was they asked what was wrong. She told them about how Max ran away and returned with an arm; they called the police. When the police arrived they questioned everybody and took notes.

When she couldn’t recall the location because of the darkness, they agreed to collect them next morning to try to identify the exact place the arm was found. The police took the arm back to the station in a plastic bag. Max wasn’t happy because he wanted to play with it!

When Molly woke next morning the police were already there. They explained what they wanted them to do. It seemed simple. They had to walk like they did yesterday. Max was so excited when he heard the lead rattle, another walk!

Molly put Max’s collar on and made sure it was tight enough so that he couldn’t get out of it this time. Then they began to walk. There was only a small group of people with them her parents, two policemen and a detective. Max knew something was not right because he was more active than usual. Eventually they reached their destination and the police cordoned off the area to search for more body parts.

Molly saw something move in the bushes and decided to investigate. Max followed closely behind her. As she went deeper into the dense forest, she caught sight of a man dressed in black. Her heart started pounding as she realised this could be the person responsible for the arm in the field. Molly and Max lost the man in the forest and cautiously wandered back to where the police and her parents were. Suddenly the man grabbed Molly and covered her mouth so she couldn’t scream. She was terrified. Max ran ahead when he saw Molly being attacked. Then she saw a glint of metal and realised he had a knife. This was it, the end of her life. Max ran back towards the girl, barking. The man panicked and the knife moved closer to her throat. Then Max lunged at the man and barked until the police came and handcuffed him. Molly ran back to her parent’s and hugged them like never before.

After a few moments Max interrupted their emotional embrace with a loud bark. They were so elated that their ordeal was finally over.

I’m going to tell you a tale but you must never tell a soul. The story starts on Sally’s way home from school. It was a rather dull day. Sally’s mother was expecting a baby. Sally didn’t like this one bit. She snatched a balloon out of her mum’s hand. With a sharp gust of wind the balloon blew away. Sally ran to get it and a truck came around a sharp bend, and BANG! Little Sally was gone leaving both her legs and her right thumb behind her. Sally’s mum had her baby. The baby’s first present was Sally’s thumb.

Two Months later! KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK Sally said, “DID YOU REALLY THINK YOU COULD GO WITHOUT GIVING ME MY LEG BACK?” It took her mother a few minutes to realise that Sally was there, she said “Who, who are you?” “No, it can’t be you, YOU’RE DEAD!” “Oh, but mother it can be and it is!” She began to saw off her mother’s leg and then cut off her hair. She began to sew her mother’s leg on with the hair. Sally called out in a girlish screech, “Ahh! Get away. Ahh!” Knowing that her dad would run out thinking something was wrong. He ran out screaming and she cut off his leg. She then sewed her father’s left leg on with the remains of her mother’s hair. She then peered into the room and saw her baby sister but that was another tragic tale.....

Story by Rebecca Johnston Illustration by Dan butler

This all started a long time ago. A serial killer went around killing people nonstop every night. Then one night a little girl was all alone walking home from her friend’s house in the lashings of rain, when the serial killer jumped out right in front of her. He was wearing a long black cloak, black trousers and a black top.

You could hardly see him. But this little girl was so afraid of him she ran and hid in a dark alleyway. He could not see her anywhere. She thought she was safe.

“Where are you little girl? I’m not going to kill you. I want to bring you home so you will get there safely”, he said very nicely. At the entrance of the alleyway she saw him standing there with a knife in his hand. The little girl remembered that she had a Stanley knife in her pocket. She took it out on the sly and CHOP!!!

Off with his hand. After that she stabbed him to death. He fell to the ground as he was loosing too much blood. He died, lying in his own blood. The little girl became famous.

Years and years later the little girl, Violet, was no longer a little girl. She was all grown up. She owned a big mansion, three Ferrari’s, two Jeeps and a Husky. One very warm night she didn’t light the fire. Something started crawling down her chimney. She didn’t notice at all. She lay down on her sofa and turned on the TV. She felt something crawling up her leg. She let out a big scream, ran into the kitchen, grabbed a knife and said, “Whoever you are, stay back. I’ve killed someone before and I’m not afraid to do it again.”

She ran into the sitting room and right in front of her was a hand. The same hand she chopped off ten years ago. “You’ve come back to seek revenge, haven’t you?” she said in a confident tone. She ran out of the house and the hand chased after her.

She ran and ran, and ran, but the hand kept gaining on her. Now she was afraid.

What was the hands weakness, she thought to herself? He doesn’t have a weakness. I know what I’ll do. I’ll do the same thing that I did when I was a little girl. He should remember that.

So she ran into a dark alleyway and hid. The hand ran in after her. Before she could kill it, the hand jumped up and dug its nails deep into her face. It went all the way from her eye to her mouth. She screamed in pain. “That’s it. You’ve gone too far.”

She grabbed it by the fingers and threw it into a bin. Then a bin truck came and emptied everything from the bin into the bin truck. Who know’s where it is now...

Story by NANCY KUTI Illustration by greg callan

Mary and her husband George wanted to adopt, but they weren’t sure.

After a long time considering it, they finally adopted a baby girl. They called her Melissa. They thought she was the most beautiful child in the world.

What they didn’t know was that she would be the kindest, nicest, mannerly little girl that ever walked the earth. As she grew up, her parents noticed that she never did anything naughty. If children were unkind to her, she would still be nice to them.

One day as she walked home from school, a bully approached her. He was twice as tall as she was with curly hair, beady eyes and VERY bad breath!

She thought she could not stand up to him so she tried to run away. There was no escape, more of his friends arrived Melissa was terrified now. Then, she heard a voice in her head whisper “Good will always be better than bad”. She thought about that for a moment and decided to try and out smart the bullies. “If you can stand on your hands longer than I can, I’ll give you my money and new iPod. If not, you leave me and the rest of the school alone forever!” The bullies agreed to this deal, thinking they could win. They bent down and pushed themselves up against a wall, upside down on their hands.

One by one, they lost their balance and fell. The main bully lasted the longest, a whole three minutes but Melissa wasn’t worried, she knew she was going to win. After a moment of looking at them, Melissa took up her position. She sat on the ground and placed her hands under her feet. She said,” I can stand on my hands forever like this”.

The SPIRITS OF WAR Story by Amy Mannion Illustration by Conor Corrigan

Kate and her parents were moving to London. They wanted to move as soon as possible because Kate’s mum was due her baby any day now.

After traveling for two hours, they came across a British Army checkpoint.

The soldier told them that war had broken out and told them to turn back.

Suddenly, there was a deafening blast. A bomb had hit the family in their car. The soldier lay dead on the side of the road. The noise of sirens seemed to be everywhere. The family were rushed to the nearest hospital. When they woke, Kate realised that she was next to her dad in a hospital bed, but where was her mum? The nurse came and told them that mum was fine but unfortunately, their new baby hadn’t survived. They went to see her and they cried together for the loss of their new baby girl. They called her Lily.

Lily was buried in a cemetery near the hospital.

In time they were released from hospital and went to start their lives in their new home. Even though they were sad, they knew life had to go on.

Kate started school but always felt like she was not on her own. After school one day, she heard the sirens go off.

Another bomb alert. She screamed for her mum and dad but couldn’t see them because there was a blackout. She could hear a baby crying in the distance, so she followed the sound. Soon she found her mum and dad in the shelter. She asked,” where is the baby I heard crying”? Her parents looked at her puzzled, there was no baby in the shelter. Kate believes that her dead sister guided her to safety that night.

What do YOU think???

The Spirits of War

Story by Haylie Marsden Illustration by sean finnegan

Once upon a time there lived a man and woman called Brian and Jenny. The couple had a young daughter called Kim. One summer the family decided that they’d like to try a holiday to the wild jungle of America. The family chose a house on stilts in the middle of the jungle as their perfect vacation.

The family boarded the jungle plane and arrived in under an hour. Upon arrival to the jungle airport, the family took a quick water taxi to their new home. Kim gasped when she saw how amazing the stilt legged house was, and the family proceeded to carry their suitcases inside.

No sooner had the family unpacked their belongings away, when Kim started pleading with her mother Jenny to go for a swim in the pond nearby. Jenny reluctantly agreed and the pair headed for the pond. Brian shouted after them, “I’ll follow you down in a minute”.

Jenny and Kim jumped into the pond and started to swim around.

Unknown to them something else was in the pond that very afternoon.

Brian suddenly screamed from the shore, “Crocodile! Get out of the water!”

The pair screamed as the crocodile raced toward them. Then clambered up the pond’s bank narrowly missing the jaws of the giant crocodile!

Kim, who had been badly cut in all the commotion, ran into the house and called the police. The police arrived on the scene in minutes, and began to tell the tale of a boy called Malcolm who’d been eaten by the very same crocodile. The house was boarded up and the family never returned to the jungle ever again….

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Story by Caithlín monaghan Illustration by ciara gaughan

The first match of the season was on Saturday. I could hardly sleep thinking about it! What if I broke my leg or something and couldn’t play? I had to stop think like this, I’m sure everything would be fine. The guy I was afraid of was Minto. He was fantastic at the game and extremely strong. Nobody EVER beat him or got a ball past him!!

My team is great. Our goalkeeper was okay. It was one more day to the match. Our manager rang and said we had training. On my way I called for Fergie. When he answered, we ran as fast as we could so not to be late.

We finally arrived there. Our manager spoke to us about the match. He put Fergie and I up front as strikers. Damien, Dougo and Suggy were midfield.

Lar, Demo and Betsy were in defense. Chonk was in goal and Skelly and Skinny were subs. The manager told us go home and get plenty of rest.

So I went straight home and into bed. Our team was called The House of Samurai. The team we were against was Mean Machine.

When match day finally arrived, both teams were on edge. At half time, it was one all. Fergie scored for our team. The second half started. Minto came on as a sub in defense. Fergie was running with the ball towards Minto. Before he knew it, Minto knocked him off his feet. It was a disaster.

He had to get taken off the pitch. It was all down to me to score the goal. It was a penalty for us. I stood there, feeling under pressure. I felt scared.

I took the shot but hit the crossbar. Their keeper kicked the ball out. Skinny came on for Fergie. He got the ball. There was only a minute left. He ran as fast as he could and crossed it into the box. I jumped up and headed it straight into the back of the net.

IT WAS A MIRACLE!!!! The referee blew the whistle and it was all over. We had won the game two – one.

2-1

Ghost Story by Leah Murray Illustration by gavin geraghty

One day a girl called Alex moved into a house in Ireland with her Mother and Father. Alex was seven, going eight when she moved in. Everything was fine until Alex started having nightmares. But the family didn’t know that the nightmares are real!!!

On the first night Alex had a nightmare about a ghost called “It” who haunted the house. Alex woke with a fright, but It was standing over the bed and said “Lets play hide and seek”.

Alex was frightened and replied “ Your not real”. “ Yes I am, and if I find you the game is over” said the ghost. Alex agreed, and she played until she got another fright. It was her Mother and Father waking her up for breakfast.

When she got up she saw It. It said game over, and then he disappeared.

That night It grabbed a knife and went in to the Mothers and Fathers bedroom to kill them but the Mother and Father were not in there bedroom they were downstairs. Alex was fast asleep when It came in and said “Night night” and killed her. But before It killed her Alex woke up and it was all a dream.

That night It came and wrecked the whole house and left writing on the wall saying “ I will never leave” But a week passed and so did a month but nothing happened “It is gone” said Alex, and It was never seen again. But It came and wrecked Alex`s room and so Alex and her parents moved away, and so Alex and her parents were happy.

GHOST

Story by Sorrele NoutAHA Illustration by Kaya Keats

Mediator and therapy master Yogi Bear, the deluded, funny-looking brown bear lived on Mt. Iwannapeepee. First he helped Yeti to make friends by improving his posture, his charm, his manners, his vocabulary and his looks.

In the end I heard he found a friend (awh how lovely, freaky but lovely).

Then Yogi Bear helped the Grim Reaper whose problem was that he found it hard to sleep. Yogi Bear suggested that he swap his gloomy, grey cagoule for something cheerful, young and cool. People found him so funny that they couldn’t stop laughing. He managed to sleep better.

Finally it was Genie that had a problem. His problem was that he could not fit into his lamp (no wonder with all the happy meals he had ate and all the cokes he had drank). Whenever somebody tried to ask him to grant a wish he would either end up limbless, losing a body part, without clothes on, or in a desert somewhere.

Yogi bear decided to give him exercises and good encouragement. Weeks later he was slim and was able to get back into his lamp (few I thought that was going to take forever).

Yogi Bear is no stranger to strange problems, or honey.

Super Burn-out Girl!

Story by Mykela Sullivan Illustration by Conor Redmond

Louise walked into the fair, tents and stalls all around her. She loved it. It was like a circus. After being there an hour, Louise decided she needed a drink so she went to one of the stalls to get one.

Little did she know that under this fair, there was a professor’s laboratory.

This mad professor made all different types of potions. He came up from his lab to the fair carrying one of these special potions. He also wanted to get a drink and left his potion down on the counter. Louise accidentally grabbed the potion and drank it. She then burst into flames and flew up into the sky. She had become Super Burn-Out Girl! In a fit of rage blew up all stalls below her. Mothers and fathers ran with their children to escape.

The mad professor then ran back down to his laboratory and emerged again with two huge buckets of water. The only way to change Louise back was to drench her in water. Just as the professor got back to the fair the skies opened and it began raining very heavily. Super Burn-Out Girl fell to the ground with a huge thump!

Everyone gathered around her trying to wake her up. Eventually the professor woke her and she couldn’t remember a thing.

The Car Crash Story by Natasha Tuite Illustration by Jonny Rowen

It was a cold, lifeless night. The trees swayed back and forth violently.

Emily couldn’t sleep. She looked at her five year old brother Jamie. He was fast asleep. Her mum was in bed, and her dad was probably driving home from work. He worked as a scientist in Leeds. Emily tossed and turned but she couldn’t get to sleep.“That’s it. I’m going outside,” she said.

Emily snuck downstairs and rushed out the front door. It was windy and starting to rain, but she didn’t care. She saw her bike against the fence and was riding along the street in minutes. She kept pedaling faster and faster until......BAAM!!! Emily screamed as a loud bang knocked her onto the ground. She whacked her head off a large rock and it started to bleed.

Her head was throbbing with pain but she didn’t care. She ran towards the noise but when she got there, she froze. In front of her there was a blue Toyota on fire, with two police cars parked nearby. A young Welsh policeman came up to her and said,”Looks nasty. A car has crashed into a tree. Apparently the man’s name is Keith White . You know him?” Emily whispered, “he’s my dad.”

Emily ran towards the car. By now, many people were crowded around it, waiting for the ambulance to arrive. An old policeman, a different one this time, stopped her from going near the car. ”Sorry missy, you can’t go over there,” he said. “But he’s my dad!“ she shouted. “EMILY! EMILY!“ a voice said as it came nearer. “EMILY!“ It was her mum and Jamie. “What’s going on? AHHHH!“, her mum screamed when she saw her husband. “What happened?“, she shouted. Before Emily could answer, the ambulance arrived. The doctors took her dad and placed him in the ambulance. Emily, her mum, and her brother were brought to the hospital in Leeds. They rushed her dad into A&E. Emily and the rest of her family waited outside the room on a bench. She looked at the clock every 5 seconds. It felt like a lifetime. They had to wait overnight and Emily couldn’t sleep. During the night, Jamie woke up crying. He said that he thought their dad was a ghost. They all began to cry.

A couple of hours later, the chief doctor came up to them and said, “We’ve done everything we can, but.........“

POLICE

DO NOT CROSS

Story by Simone white Illustration by aisling smith

It was a rainy day. Carl woke up, he had an amazing dream! He had gone on an adventure with his father Paddy. Carl’s mother had told him his dad died when he was five. Any time Carl hears this he cries.

He went to the playground with his friend Sophie. They sat down and chatted about Carl’s little brother Tom. “There’s Tom”, said Carl. They wave to him as he swung on the roundabout. They left the playground as Sophie had to go home. Carl seen a ghost in the window of a creepy house, he thought it might have been the woman who died there long ago. He told Sophie and she said he was imagining things. They went to Carl’s house where his mother told them Tom had gone missing. “We saw him at the playground” they said together. They all went searching for Tom......

Some time later, they came to the old priest’s house, people said it was haunted but they had to check if Tom was there. They crept in quietly but the door slammed behind them. They had a look round, there were candles lighting everywhere. Carl could hear someone calling his name.

They found Tom in the priest’s house! He was scared but ok. They called the police, but the priest was never found. Together, they went home.

Their mother was so happy to see them but didn’t feel very well, she was expecting a baby. She had to go to hospital as the baby was coming early!

Carl’s mother gave birth to another baby brother.

A year later, they had moved house and they were all very happy there.

Even though Tom got into trouble sometimes, their mom didn’t mind because she was happy they were all happy, safe and well.

Field of bodies Story by Shauna byrne Illustration by michelle eccles

A girl was walking her dog late one evening. Her name was Molly. The wind picked up and big drop’s of rain began to fall. She decided they would take a short cut through a field. It was quite dark as the moon was their only source of light. That’s when she felt her dog, a Golden Retriever called Max, strain on the lead. Then his collar slipped off and he ran.

She found him moments later barking and scratching at what appeared to be overgrown bushes and rubbish.

As Molly tried to get Max on his lead she noticed he had something in his mouth. At first she thought it was a rat but when she made him drop it she realised it was a human arm.

Molly and Max ran home to tell her parents about their find. She got worried as clouds started to hide the moonlight, but they were quick and made it in time.

When they got inside their garden Molly made Max drop the arm. She staggered through the front door, Max at her heels. When her parents saw how white her face was they asked what was wrong. She told them about how Max ran away and returned with an arm; they called the police. When the police arrived they questioned everybody and took notes.

When she couldn’t recall the location because of the darkness, they agreed to collect them next morning to try to identify the exact place the arm was found. The police took the arm back to the station in a plastic bag. Max wasn’t happy because he wanted to play with it!

When Molly woke next morning the police were already there. They explained what they wanted them to do. It seemed simple. They had to walk like they did yesterday. Max was so excited when he heard the lead rattle, another walk!

Molly put Max’s collar on and made sure it was tight enough so that he couldn’t get out of it this time. Then they began to walk. There was only a small group of people with them her parents, two policemen and a detective. Max knew something was not right because he was more active than usual. Eventually they reached their destination and the police cordoned off the area to search for more body parts. Molly saw something move in the bushes and decided to investigate. Max followed closely behind her.

As she went deeper into the dense forest, she caught sight of a man dressed in black. Her heart started pounding as she realised this could be the person responsible for the arm in the field. Molly and Max lost the man in the forest and cautiously wandered back to where the police and her parents were. Suddenly the man grabbed Molly and covered her mouth so she couldn’t scream. She was terrified. Max ran ahead when he saw Molly being attacked. Then she saw a glint of metal and realised he had a knife. This was it, the end of her life. Max ran back towards the girl, barking.

The man panicked and the knife moved closer to her throat. Then Max lunged at the man and barked until the police came and handcuffed him. Molly ran back to her parent’s and hugged them like never before. After a few moments Max interrupted their emotional embrace with a loud bark. They were so elated that their ordeal was finally over.

St Patrick’s Senior National School, Corduff St. Patrick’s Senior National School, Corduff, came into existence on November 1st 1978. Ms. Mary O’Riordan became the Principal of the school in 2011, following the retirement of Mr. Michael Shanley. In 1978, the Senior School building was still under construction and classes were located in the Junior School. As classrooms were finished in the Senior School building, classes were moved over during the first six months of 1979. The school reached its peak in terms of student numbers in September 1983, when there were 568 pupils. Currently, there are 320 pupils enrolled in St. Patrick’s SNS. There are also 20 teachers, 5 Special Needs Assistants, a secretary and a caretaker working in the school.

Acknowledgments The Creative Digital Media course at ITB are most grateful to the talented, and creative sixth class students at St. Patrick’s Senior National School, and appreciate the time and effort afforded to sharing their imaginative stories with us. Many thanks to the staff of St. Patrick’s, in particular the School Principal Mary O’Riordan, and sixth class teachers Laura Mulligan, Nigel O’Hara and Suzanne Burns.

Many thanks to Tom Clarke at PrintFusion.ie for his patience, advice and publication of the project.

Acknowledgment for the valuable work carried out by Adrienne Harding in the ITB Access Office should be recognised,without whose assistance and expert guidance this collaboration would not be possible.

Congratulations to all the Creative Digital Media second year students for their wonderful illustrations. Online versions of many of the “Little Big Imagination“ stories can also be found at: www.creativedigitalmedia.ie/littlebigimaginaton.

Niamh O’Hora, Editor

www.creativedigitalmedia.ie/litlebigimaginaton.