Short Stories

Later that night when everybody was in bed, I came downstairs to get a glass of milk. I sat on the new carpet drinking my milk when suddenly the carpet began to rise. Then I knew it was a magic carpet so I made a wish to go to Australia.

The magic carpet took off and flew to the sky. I saw the stars and flew around the moon. We landed in Australia where it was daytime. I saw a kangaroo jumping with a joey in her pouch. I saw a koala bear climbing a tree. The sun was shining when I fell asleep on the beach.

I woke up and it was morning time. I was on the carpet and it was all a dream.

Hollie

"My teacher’s an alien!" No it couldn’t be! But it was true. She ran home and told her Mam but would your Mam believe you if you saw an alien? Well, Sarah’s Mam didn’t believe her. Her Mam said she had to prove it. After thinking during the night, she woke up the next morning with a great idea. She went to school that day with a camera. When everyone went home she hid in the yard and took lots of pictures. Then she went home and showed her Mam the pictures.

"What will we do?" said Sarah’s Mam. The next day, Sarah and her Mam went in early next morning and showed the pictures to the teacher. The teacher laughed. She said she was going to be in the school play and it was just a costume and they all had a good laugh about it.

Emma

Today they were going out for dinner together. But Sarah decided that she wanted to go on an adventure. She didn’t want to go out with her family. Sarah wanted to explore, she wanted to look for dinosaur bones and interesting things.

She crawled very quickly and very quietly out of the house and ran down the road to knock for her friend, Peter. She asked him if he wanted to go on an adventure with her.

"Later," he said, "of course I will. What time?"

"Four o’clock. We will get the four o’clock bus to Dundalk and then to Bray. We will get off there at the forest and collect the bones from dinosaurs".

Antonia

One day she came over to my house to play after school and we listened to some music. We like the same music. We like DJ Sammy and he plays "Heaven". Also, Blue, Atomic, Samantha Mumba and Scooter. Sometimes we go to the zoo or the movies. We go to the shops for sweets.

We are best friends. We get on well together and hardly ever fight. I hope that we will always be good friends.

Jenn

All the ducks jumped out of the pond and ran, ducking away. The dragon was still there so Peter got dressed and ran down to the dragon.

Peter was shaking in fear and the dragon stood up and said, "Who are you?" and Peter cried out in fear "I’m Peter". The dragon said "I’m Emma" and Peter said "can we still be friends" and Emma said, "Yes".

They lived happily ever after because one day Peter saved her and she turned into a princess and Peter was a king.

Rose

It started at 1am and went on until the next day. We had to go somewhere else.

A policeman came to our house and spoke to my Mammy. He told her that we had to evacuate. I went to my Granny’s house.

They told us to come back later that night. When I got back the fire was still going. There were cracks in the wall of the building. When I went to bed it was still going. When I got up the next day, it was not going out. There were policemen there. There was a flood because of the water.

Jennifer

I went home to show my Mam the painting and she said, "Where did you get that?"
"A man was selling paintings," I replied.
"Well, hang it up in your room."
"Ok!"

So I hung it up in my room, then the strangest thing happened. The man who sold the picture to me knocked at my door. This time he was wearing a long sleeve top, jeans and runners. He said that the picture I had bought could change every day and he said that I could go up and look at it. When I went up, it was a picture of mountains.
"Oh my God!"
"I told you."
And then he said that after two days, it turns into a vortex.
"A vortex," I replied.
"Yes, a vortex. I was saving this picture for you."
"For me!"
"Yes, for you," he said. "But you can’t go near it," he warned.

As soon as he went, I touched the picture.

Louise

Chloe was ten tomorrow but then she thought that those presents were too babyish for a ten-year-old. So Chloe thought and thought for hours and hours and then she thought that she would go upstairs and have a little look at it because there was no one in the house. So Chloe went upstairs into her sister’s bedroom, went in, locked the door and took it from under the bed and was very surprised that it was a ring.

Chloe started to jump up and down and the ring was a bit loose and didn’t notice that the window was opened. And the ring went out of the window and her dog found it and put it in his kennel!
And when Chloe had calmed down she realised that it went out the window and into the back garden.

So, Chloe ran down the stairs, out to the back garden and searched everywhere. She searched the shed, she searched the playhouse, under the side in the black bin and everywhere else she could think of. Then she saw the dog’s kennel and her eyes lit up like two lightbulbs.

So she walked over to the kennel and bent over and there she saw the shiny gold ring there. She put her hand in and took it out.

She ran back in to the house, up to her sister’s bedroom and put it back into the box and wrapped it up again.

Then she saw lots of other presents but said that she would wait for tomorrow to open the rest of them.

So the next day, she ran down the stairs and her Mam, Dad and her sister were standing there with their pyjamas and their dressing gowns on and they had her presents in their hands.

Her Mam had three presents, her dad had four huge presents and her sister had two smallish presents in her hands. So Chloe ran over and opened all her presents but the one she liked most was the ring.

Ciara

A lot of smoke came out. When the smoke cleared, three cakes were just visible, one cake smaller than the next. The baker took the tray over to the messy worktop, spread with icings and candy cans of every colour.

As the baker was icing and writing on the buns and cakes he was distracted and a blue three-eyed alien stole a tray of fairy cakes but he still had enough for the wedding.

Anne Marie

She was walking down the road one day when she lost it.

She went back home and her Mam was in the kitchen. So Louise ran up the stairs and her Mam said, "Louise, come down."
"I did something wrong", said Louise.
"What did you do?", said her Mother.
"I lost my ring".
"I’m angry with you", said her Mam.

Louise went down the road and found her ring. She was really happy and so was her Mother!

Christine

I rushed out of the shop and ran home but there was nobody there.
"Oh no! I might be lost for ever," I said.

But I was not lost forever. I saw my friend Amy and she looked after me until I found my Mam.

Julie

Every night she dreamed that she was a mermaid. She dreamt of an under sea castle. It was so pretty, a lovely silver colour. In her dream she had a pretty green tail, long blond hair and a silver crown with gold shells. She had two sisters in her dream too.

That night while dreaming she woke up. She tried to go back to sleep but she couldn’t. So she went to the sea to swim. She swam very deep but she seemed to be able to breathe.
"I really am a mermaid after all!", she exclaimed.

I went to pick it up to put it in the bin when I noticed some paper inside it. I opened the bottle and took the paper out. It had a message on it. I could not understand it as it was written in code. I thought it must have been a secret message from somebody so I kept it.

I never tried to find out what the message said, I just have it in a picture frame at home so every body who visits can try and work out what it says.

Amy

So I went up to the dog pond and I saw reindeer. Soon I won’t be able to go to the playground because it is being knocked down to build houses. I will miss it.

Rachelle

I DIDN’T FEEL VERY WELL.

I WENT HOME AND I STILL DIDN’T FEEL WELL.

I HAD TO GO TO THE DOCTOR.

THE DOCTOR SAID I HAD THE MEASLES.

I DID NOT GO TO SCHOOL FOR A WEEK.

SOON I WAS BETTER.