Story Seeds - Adventures Across Limerick and Beyond, Volume 2

Story Seeds:
Adventures Across
Limerick & Beyond
Volume 2
A collection of stories
by primary school students
from Limerick and Clare

About Story Seeds
The Story Seeds project features new stories that celebrate the areas where
we all live, work and play. After the first hugely successful collection on the
northside of Dublin, further collections followed from schools in Dublin South,
Dublin West, Drogheda, Co. Louth, Co. Wicklow and Limerick City.
The collection you hold in your hands now is the second volume written by
primary schools in Limerick City, with the inclusion of schools in Co. Clare.
This project is funded by Creative Ireland and Limerick City and County Council
through Creative Ireland Made in Limerick.
We think you will agree that each story is full of action and fun starring a huge
range of inventive characters in adventures from New York to the Oval Office,
from waterfalls to secret lairs, tacos and lots of cheese!
Congratulations to all the young writers for a fantastic achievement. Enjoy!
Fighting Words
Fighting Words is a creative writing centre established in 2009 by Roddy Doyle
and Seán Love in Dublin. Fighting Words aims to help students of all ages to
develop their writing skills and to explore their love of writing.
Fighting Words is extremely grateful to our project partners at Limerick
Libraries. This project is funded by Creative Ireland and Limerick City and
County Council through Creative Ireland Made in Limerick.
Copyright of the work created at Fighting Words rests with the authors, with permission
granted to Fighting Words to feature the creative work in any of their publications,
promotional material and websites.
www.fightingwords.ie
Story Seeds:
Adventures Across
Limerick & Beyond
Volume 2
A collection of stories
by primary school students
from Limerick and Clare
Contents
The Betrayals 1
Cheese Mayhem 15
Guff Saves the Day 29

The Betrayals
• Chapter One: Mary Queen of Ireland Girls National School,
Shannabooly, Caherdavin, Limerick, 4th Class
• Chapter Two: Salesian Primary School, Farranshone,
North Circular Road, Limerick, 5th Class 1
• Chapter Three: Salesian Primary School, Farranshone,
North Circular Road, Limerick, 5th Class 2
Chapter One: A Trip to the Real World
Once upon a time in a magical world, a flying toenail
named Jimmy was celebrating his 964th birthday. Jimmy
was green, crusty and nine feet tall!
Jimmy’s best friend Amelia walked in. She looked divine
and was even taller!
“Hi Amelia,” he said blushing.
“Hi Jimmy,” Amelia replied. “Happy Birthday! I hope all
your wishes come true today!”
“Thanks Amelia, I’m delighted that I retired on my
birthday,” said Jimmy.
“I have a retirement/birthday present for you,” said
Amelia, handing him a green box.
Suddenly, a chunky pig named Porky flew out of the box
and snorted in Jimmy’s face!
“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! OH MY LORD!”” cried
Jimmy. “What is this monstrosity?!”
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“It’s a flying pig. I thought you’d like a ride!” Amelia
giggled.
“I’ve one more present for you,” Amelia told him. “Hop
on the flying pig. I’m going to take you to the REAL
world.”
“What do you mean?” Jimmy asked.
“We are going to NEW YORK!” Amelia gushed. “Hang on
tight!”
They crash-landed in New York and realised they were
only normal sizes in the real world.
Jimmy looked up, saw Amelia had vanished and felt
guilty. He dropped the beautiful toenail to the ground
and ran looking for her.
Out of the corner of his eye, he spotted Amelia with
another foot! This foot was dazzling, with the cleanest
toenails ever, resembling six-pack toes, with a perfectly
groomed moustache.
Jimmy felt sad and jealous and stormed away. He
suddenly heard a loud wheezing noise and was swept up
by a street cleaner’s bin, which mysteriously opened up
a portal door…
“OMG, why is everything so big?” wondered Jimmy. “My
toenail is chipped, what will I do?”
He noticed humans walking around with beautiful
bippetybops on their feet, and fell in love with them
instantly.
“What are these beautiful bippetybops?” asked Jimmy.
“They are houses for feet, it seems,” Amelia replied. “I
think they are called shoes!”
Jimmy found a bippetybop with a toenail inside. It was
a shiny, bright red high heel with a perfect French tip
toenail inside. Jimmy fell in love at first sight and kissed
the toenail.
Amelia’s face dropped in shock. She hopped away in
despair, muttering, “How could he!” under her breath.
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Chapter Two: TOE-tal Drama
The portal door opened to a parallel universe and Jimmy
saw a version of himself called ‘Muscle Toe.’ He had two
twig arms with two big muscle biceps.
Muscle Toe gave Jimmy some advice.“If you want to win
Amelia over, you have to let that French tip go!”
Jimmy started crying because he was ashamed about
kissing the French tip toenail. He invited Muscle Toe into
the real world with him.
In the real world, Muscle Toe (or MT for short) spotted a
beautiful finger gliding around the streets like a model.
Her name was Olivia and she bashed into MT on the
street, spilling her coffee everywhere.
It was love at first sight for MT.
“A pretty finger like you shouldn’t be roaming the streets
alone! Let me buy you a new coffee?” he said.
“Leave me alone, I am perfectly capable of walking the
streets by myself!” Olivia replied. “But I guess I could use
another coffee - I’m very tired.”
Meanwhile, Jimmy was begging and pleading with
Amelia to forgive him but she was fed up. “This is not the
first time you kissed another toe nail!” she said angrily.
Jimmy was both devastated and heartbroken. He hopped
on Porky and returned to the magical world. Amelia
stormed off in a huff and headed to a nearby coffee shop.
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“Wait, I think I recognise that guy! It’s Muscle Toe, my
new friend! Who is he with?” she said to herself.
It must be his sister, she thought. She walked over to the
table and blurts -
“Hi Pookie Bear, I didn’t know you had a sister!”
“NO! I’m not his sister, I’m his girlfriend,” Olivia said, as
she leaned over to MT and kissed him!
Suddenly, Olivia’s husband Alan arrived over. “Olivia!
I thought we were happy together these past seven
years?!”
Olivia threw her coffee aggressively over MT and he
screamed in pain.
“He’s just some guy who bought me a coffee and then
tried to kiss me!” she said desperately.
“It’s not my fault Olivia! You’re the one who tried to kiss
me!” cried Muscle Toe.
“Yeah,” agrees Amelia, who immediately started flirting
with MT, while Olivia stormed out with Alan trailing
behind, clutching their daughter Pinky in his arms.
“Wait,” thought Amelia. “What about Jimmy?”
She searched the streets and couldn’t find him anywhere.
Jimmy was nowhere to be seen…
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Chapter Three: Jimmy Gone Rogue
Amelia was still searching on the streets of New York and
screamed in despair, “Jimmy, Jimmy, come back!”
“I’ll help you look,” said MT.
Meanwhile, Jimmy was flying back to the magical world
but soon realised that life was meaningless without
Amelia and decided to punish himself by going to the
poisonous mushroom world.
While in mid-air, he chose to paint his toenails in case
he bumped into Amelia again. This varnish transformed
him into a buff and handsome mature nail!
As Amelia was still looking for Jimmy, a magic nail
varnish brush appeared in front of her, dropped from a
phoenix-like toenail clippers.
“That’s odd,” she said, petrified. Sensing Amelia’s
despair, MT came up with the idea to ride the magic nail
varnish brush to the magical world together. The magical
brush called all his friends and they formed an army to
search for Jimmy.
While flying through the magical world, they saw Jimmy
going in the opposite direction. The army followed him
just in time to see Jimmy lying down, slowly dying in the
mushroom world.
Suddenly, Jimmy saw MT and this brought up a fire in
him. He jumped up super high and pushed MT off the
magic brush in frustration. When he fell to the ground,
he wanted to have beef with Jimmy.
Luckily, Jimmy is a vegetarian, so he can’t have beef with
anyone! Amelia rushed over to MT to check if he is okay,
and she wiped his forehead.
To her horror, pimples appeared due to the poisonous
mushrooms. Slowly, MT’s muscles began to shrink,
omitting a low farting sound. Then he realised he was
slowly turning back into his teenage self!
He had been using balloons for muscles all along!
Amelia noticed that MT had become ugly and begged for
forgiveness from Jimmy.
“I don’t forgive you, you chose MT instead of me!” Jimmy
declared.
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“What can I do for you to ever forgive me? I’ll even give
you some of my nice toenails,” Amelia responded. “MT is
just a kid who tried to look like a man.”
Jimmy was disgusted at Amelia’s behaviour. She was
behaving even more childishly than MT. Jimmy hopped
on Porky and flew through the portal, landing in Limerick
City. He headed for Salesian Primary School, where he
meets Alan and Olivia.
“Who are you?” says Jimmy.
“We are the best people ever,” Alan said. “Isn’t that
right, Pookie Bear?”
“Would you ever just leave me alone to have a
conversation?” Olivia huffed.
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They were bickering so much that Jimmy walked away.
He thought to himself, “The best people in the world?
More like the worst people in the world!”
Jimmy was walking up Condell Road when he saw a girl
that looked just like him.
“Hi, why are you looking so sad?” asked Jimmy.
“I’ve just lost my brother,” she replied. The girl’s name
was Lily.
“OMG, where? That’s so sad. Can I help?” Jimmy
answered.
“No, silly, I lost him in Roblox!” she said.
“Oh, what is Roblox?” he asks.
“It is a 3D computer game, where you play loads of
different games!” Lily told him.
Suddenly, Lily’s phone began to vibrate in her pocket.
“What’s going on with your phone?” Jimmy asked.
Lily grabbed her phone from her pocket and unlocked
it, where a message had popped up: Press to open the
Roblox app.
Lily pressed it and they both got sucked into the game.
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Cheese Mayhem
• Chapter 1: Christ the King BNS, Shannabooly,
Caherdavin, Limerick, 5th class
• Chapter 2: Christ the King BNS, Shannabooly,
Caherdavin, Limerick, 5th & 6th class
• Chapter 3: JFK Memorial school, Ennis Rd,
Farranshone, Limerick, 6th class
• Chapter 4: Meelick Primary School, Stonepark,
Co. Clare, 3rd & 4th class
Chapter One: The Chickpea Chase
Once upon a time, a villain named Bad Gangsta Bruce
(BGB) opened his doors to release the mighty Ohio
Chickpea into the wild. His mission was to track down
Ripindra and find his location. BGB’s lair ran under
King John’s Castle in Limerick, while Ripindra lived in
underground ruins nearby.
Ohio Chickpea passed cobwebs, dust, fifty year old
skeletons and electric sparks in the water along his
tunnel journey.
Suddenly, Ohio Chickpea heard a noise, a muffled bang. It
was Ripindra, upgrading his sword to Version 3.
He cried, “Yippee, I am finally upgrading my sword!”
Riprindra heard footsteps outside the tunnel and turned
around. He saw Ohio Chickpea on the floor and says:
“Oh my God, it’s the Great Ohio Chickpea!” Ripindra was
terrified but then realised that the electrical currents from
the upgrade had electrocuted him. He was momentarily
paralysed.
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Weirdly, Ripindra heard a voice coming from Chickpea,
he knew he recognised it but couldn’t recall who it is. It
seems to be coming from a microphone on Chickpea…
“Chip, chip, chip,” said the microphone. This was a
danger code to alert BGB that Ripindra was in the tunnel!
Ripindra hurls Ohio Chickpea into a little cell before he
recovers.
Meanwhile, BGB used his engineering skills to finish the
hover bike he had been building. The hoverbike’s wheels
were horizontal, with flames flickering under the tyres.
There was even a magic button that transforms it back to
a normal bike.
The hoverbike journey was a smooth five minutes but
when he reached the lair, the tunnel was blocked by a
very tall turtle named Bob.
Bob was Ripindra’s sidekick, tasked with protecting the
lair. He had created a sophisticated security system that
had malfunctioned due to the strong current. BGB tried
to negotiate his way into Ripindra’s lair with a piece of
his favourite cheese - GOUDA!
“If I give you a piece of this cheese, will you let me into
the lair?” asked BGB.
“No way, it will take way more than that for me to let you
in!” replied Bob.
BGB offered one tonne of the finest aged Gouda to Bob
as well as the hoverbike. Bob bounced his head off the
magic button and zoomed off with the cheese to his cosy
cottage in Fermoy.
Ripindra walkie talkied Bob, “Is there anyone outside?”
There was no reply. Ripindra is worried. Meanwhile, BGB
pulled out his laser gun on his way to save his best friend,
Ohio Chickpea. Ripindra and BGB got into position to
fight but Ohio Chickpea activated his nuclear powered
laser door cutter to escape the cell and help BGB.
“I’m back, Master! Let’s destroy Ripindra together,” he
said.
Ripindra grips his Version 3 sword with both hands and
prepares for battle. Suddenly, Bob the Turtle crashed
through the roof and landed on Ohio Chickpea, who
exploded into hummus!!!
BGB fled in fear…
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Chapter Two: Chickobot’s Revenge
The crazy turtle explosion knocked Ripindra out.
Suddenly, a reboot card spawned on top of Ohio
Chickpea’s remains and all his loot fell to the ground. In
the loot, there was a shiny gold tommy gun along with a
flap juice.
Just then, BGB returned with a teleportation device, so he
sneakily picked up the reboot card and ascended to the
reboot van. He inserted the card into the van and a blue
light shot upwards in a flash. Ohio Chickpea levitated
in the blue light and slowly landed in a mysterious cave
filled with enchanted animals.
Inside the cave, there was a fierce leader named Crocobot
but he had been replaced by his brother, KingCroc. Once
Crocobot saw Ohio Chickpea, he gave him laser upgrades.
“Now you better do everything I say, or I will roast you!”
said Crocobot.
Ohio Chickpea was shocked. “Golly gee, you’re not as OG
as me!”
Crocobot then charged his own laser guns to fight Ohio
Chickpea. They both blasted their laser guns in a flash of
light and the cave exploded once again!
Awoken by the noise, Ripindra went to see what all
the commotion was about. BGB had been searching
everywhere for Ohio Chickpea and finally discovered the
cave. But Ohio Chickpea had exploded into hummus once
again. The paste had covered Crocobot and actually took
possession of his body!
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Chapter Three: Cheesemageddon
Bob was sitting on a ledge above the fighters, when
his precious Gouda fell through a ravine in the lair. He
jumped down and landed on top of Ripindra, BGB and
Chickobot, knocking them out.
Bob saw the Stampede 3000 laying on the ground and he
merged it with his Gouda cheese. He was now the Ultimate
Cheese Holder with a weapon that could turn anyone or
anything into cheese!
“If you think you’re the king, I’m the KING!” said Bob.
Suddenly, Ripindria, BGB and Chickobot woke up and
they saw their weapon had been taken over.
“Are you serious right now, bro?” Crocobot’s last words
echoed through the lair.
“With this new body I will rule the world!” annouced the
newly created Chickobot.
BGB witnessed this all unfold and was furious at
Chickobot’s betrayal. Ripindra, who has also witnessed
this transformation, decided to team up with BGB.
“Let’s combine your laser gun with my Version 3 sword
to create the ultimate weapon,” said Ripindra. “The
weapon, Stampede 3000, will be unstoppable!”
BGB wielded the two weapons together with his amazing
engineering skills, all while Bob was happily eating his
cheese..
A gruesome battle ensued and the victor was…
“Why did you betray us, Bob??” shouted Ripindra.
Bob didn’t respond as lightning suddenly started
sparking in the sky.
“NOOOOOOO, my cheese is melting!” shouted Bob.
Chickobot responded, “That cheese has Gou-da go!”
“That was so cheesy,” laughed Bob.
Out of nowhere, a mysterious person arrived. His name
was Menacing Moe, he had a robotic eye that could freeze
people in their tracks. He stared at the fighters and they
were all immediately paralysed, but nothing could stop
Bob from eating his melted cheese.
“What’s up, my G?” said Moe.
Bob replied, “Sup my broski?” with cheese oozing out of
his mouth.
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Their plan for a worldwide cheese empire had begun. Bob
uses BGB’s hoverbike to travel to Washington, DC with
Menacing Moe.
“Get on bro, it’s time for us to build a cheese empire!”
said Bob.
They landed with a bang on the roof of the White House,
crashing into the Oval Office! Bo Jiden, the President,
pressed an emergency button under his desk, shouting,
“Get out of here!”
Bob replied, “Stop talking Bo, we are going to cheese you up!”
Moe started to confidently plant stinky cheese bombs
around the Oval Office. Before any of the bombs could take
effect, Bo Jiden takes out his fully automated machine
gun and opens fire!
Bullets ricochet off Bob’s turtle shell, causing chaos in
the Oval Office. Security tried to get into the office, but
Bob had turned the door handles into mozzarella with his
ultimate cheese sword.
Meanwhile, back in the lair, BGB built a hoverboard
from scraps. He cleverly planted a tracking device on
the hoverbike. Ripindra, Chickobot and BGB hop on the
hoverboard and follow the hoverbike-tracking device.
From the pressure of the atmosphere mid-flight,
Chickobot begins to separate back into Crocobot and
the hummus, i.e. Ohio Chickpea. He flew off into the
atmosphere, leaving Crocobot to resume his body.
Ripindra, BGB and the newly returned Crocobot landed in
the Oval Office. Menacing Moe took out a cheesy remote
with a large red button.
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Before he could click it, the President’s security came
crashing through the windows…
Chapter Four:
Cheese Flood in the Oval Office
Bob screamed as one of the security guards shot him with
hot nacho cheese from his gun. The hot cheese dripped
onto Menacing Moe’s remote and then melted the red
button.
“Noooooooo! That button was going to turn the whole
world into cheese!” cried Moe. The hot nacho cheese
spread around the Oval Office and even melted Moe’s
hand off!
Yuck!
Ohio Chickpea’s dog, Cheesy Chicken Nugget, suddenly
fell through the roof, landed on the cheesy sword and
ate it whole! Cheesy Chicken Nugget’s tail could grow
and it reached into the atmosphere and pulled Ohio
Chickpea back down to Earth. Chickpea was sick of being
turned into hummus all the time, so he started shooting
everybody with his new space gun.
“Arrrrghh”! roared Chickpea as shooting stars streamed
out of his space gun, unmelting everything and turning it
back to normal.
“Well that was cool,” said Chickpea. Chickpea and his dog
then took a grappler and zipped over to the next building,
away from the chaos.
Bo Jiden started repairing the Oval Office but stepped on
a stinky cheese bomb, which detonated and triggered all
the stink bombs in the office.
“Oooooooh noooooo!” bellowed the President.
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The security team shouted, “We don’t want to be stinky!”
and they jumped out the windows.
“I love this smell,” said Bob the turtle and he tried to eat
it but it turned all mouldy and maggoty. Bo Jiden decided
to ban cheese from the city for good as a result.
Chickpea started crying because his cheesy nugget dog
had been banned from the city. Chickpea took a magic
potion, poured it on his nugget dog and washed all the
cheese away.
Bob also started crying as his plans for world cheese
domination are now kaplowee. His tears actually flooded
the Oval Office!
Bo Jiden almost drowns but a yellow yarn bomb rolled in
the window with a smirk on his face. His name was Super
Real Sam II. His superpower was to soak up any liquid he
could find.
Ohio Chickpea returned to the Oval Office and saw a
slingshot on the floor, so he wanted to check it out. He
tripped over the carpet into the slingshot, which sent him
shooting off into space where he got stuck in a meteor
shower.
Super Real Sam II rolls over Bo Jiden, who fell out the
window into a pool outside. But he can’t swim…!
Bob, Menacing Moe, BGB, Crocobot and Ripindra took
over the presidency and un-ban cheese from the city.
They rode off into the sunset, joined by Ohio Chickpea
and his dog on a floating asteroid.
They were about to live happily ever after when a
McLonalds worker saw them and shouted, “Hey, you
forgot to pay!”
“Oh Bo Jiden, love of my life!” cried Super Real Sam II.
“Eeewww!” said Bo Jiden, kicking the yarn ball away in
disgust. When the yarn ball soaked up all the water, he
became invisible.
Meanwhile, Ripindra, BGB and Crokobot decided they
were sick of this mess and so they leave to get McLonalds.
When they returned, they threw it at Bo Jiden as revenge
for banning cheese.
“Stop doing that!” said Bo Jiden. “And what are ye still
doing here? Get out!”
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Guff Saves the Day
• Chapter 1: John F. Kennedy Memorial School,
Ennis Road, Farranshone, Limerick, 6th Class
• Chapter 2: Corpus Christi Primary School,
Moyross, Limerick, 2nd Class
• Chapter 3: Thomond Primary School, Ballynanty,
Limerick, 2nd Class
• Chapter 4: Meelick Primary School, Stonepark,
Co. Clare, 5th & 6th Class
Chapter One: Jill’s Conundrum
Once upon a time, a probation officer named Jill was
watching the news from her work desk and saw a villain
named Susan had escaped jail.
Jill had her headphones on and she couldn’t hear what was
happening behind her. Her best friend, Robert 647, was
violently pulled from his work chair as Susan the Spanish
Warlord left the police station with illegal records in tow.
Suddenly, the news helicopter zoomed in on the police
station and Jill realised that Susan was actually leaving
her station, while also kidnapping Robert 647! She had
him captured in a Louis Vuitton bag and she was dragging
him along the ground outside. Jill climbed up on top of the
roof and took out a machine gun that was full of frozen
Brussels sprouts!
Jill started violently shooting at Susan to try and stop her.
At the speed of light, Susan pulled out a freeze ray and
froze the machine gun.
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“You will never stop me now!!” said Susan laughing.
“HEEHEEHEE!”
A van pulls up at Susan’s exact location. The driver yelled,
“Get in, Susan!” in a Spanish tone.
Jill sadly realised she wouldn’t be able to catch up but
thought that Robert 647 would be fine.
Susan escaped to her fortress and went to visit Timmy,
Jill’s father, who was being held captive in a dark crevice
of the complex maze that was the prison.
All of a sudden, Jill saw Timmy (her father) and Robert
647 hanging from chains inside the fortress. She ran to
save them.
“Hurry up!” yelled Robert.
Suddenly, Jill got bashed by an evil mutant pig called
Hogtrotter the Third. Jill became unconscious and Susan
took the opportunity to cuff her up as well…
Susan phoned Jill back at the office and demanded, “Give
me €10,000 or I won’t let your father and best friend go
from my fortress!”
Jill responded, “If you don’t let them go, bad things will
happen to you!” while hanging up.
As Jill was trying to locate the fortress, she remembered
that one of the Brussels sprouts was stuck to Susan’s
jumper. The Brussels sprouts were specially made to
include a tracking device. Jill hopped on her private
flying orca on her way to Susan’s fortress. She looked at
her mobile app, where she saw the Brussels sprout and
followed it.
As she was about to walk slowly into the fortress, she
realised it was lunchtime, and she could not miss Taco
Tuesday. Just as Jill was about to leave, Susan shouted
from a megaphone, “I have tacos in my fortress if you
want them!”
Jill shouted back, “I already have a JustEat order placed!”
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Two: Taco Time
Suddenly, Jill woke up, realised she had been captured
and screamed, “AHHHHHHHH!”
Glass around her shattered. “I’m not giving up yet!”
She saw scissors on the ground and picked it up, rolled
into a corner and cut herself free. She took out her carrot
gun, and shot carrots to the other corner of the room to
distract the pig. The carrot-loving mutant pig ran over to
gobble up the carrots, leaving Jill free to escape.
She ran to the door but discovered it has a thumb scanner.
Jill grabbed a pillow, threw it out an open window and
jumped to safety.
Susan came into the room then and saw the carrots on
the ground. She picked them up, but Hogtrotter the Third
charged at her and started biting her for the carrots. Joe,
Susan’s sidekick, heard her screams and burst into the
room to save her!
Whilst the pig and Susan are fighting, Jill ran back into the
lair and tried to find a key to free her father Timmy and
her best friend Robert 647. She slammed the door to lock
them in, and said, “Bye guys! You have only ten seconds to
find a way to escape before you’re locked in forever!”
Jill searched the liar for the keys but couldn’t find them
anywhere. She thought to check the roof and believed that
they may have fallen into the river below! She jumped
into the fast-flowing river and the current carried her
toward a gushing waterfall.
Jill swam deep under the water and found a safe there.
She guessed the passcode to break the safe lock. She
then found a bunch of twenty keys inside and had no
idea which one would work. She climbed up onto the
riverbank, found a secret entrance and ran back to the
lair to free the prisoners.
Meanwhile, Joe and Susan have escaped the room and
the carrot-loving evil mutant pig. They searched for Jill
in the river. Jill finally reached the cells and tried all the
keys, and found the correct two keys to release Timmy
and Robert.
“Yippee! We’re FREE!” they cried happily, hugging in
celebration.
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Suddenly, the giant orca zoomed in with the tacos from
the JustEat order on his back.
Timmy said, “Oh no, they forgot the taco sauce and the
drinks!”
Joe and Susan heard the happy reunion and ran back into
the lair to capture Timmy, Jill and Robert 647 once again.
But when they get into the cell, there is no one to be seen…
Chapter Three: The Spy Club
Robert 647, Jill and Timmy had escaped through a secret
door at the back of the cell Jill found a secret code hidden
in the JustEat taco wrapper.
She quickly entered the code, raced through the secret
door and managed to clamber outside. But when they got
there, there was an army of Gardaí waiting outside.
Timmy asked quietly, “Do any of ye have a phone?”
“No,” they all responded.
“Why don’t you check your own pockets?” asked Jill.
“Oh, I have one!” realised Timmy and he rang his brother
Jack to organise an escape.
“Can you come to pick us up, we’re in a little bit of a
pickle?!” asked Timmy.
“I’ll come to collect ye now,” answered Jack. “Just hold on!”
They all jumped into the car when Jack arrived, to avoid
suspicion. Susan and Joe realised that they had escaped
and ran out to chase them. They jumped onto the
spoiler on the back of the car and used a rope to balance
themselves on it.
In the middle of this high-speed chase, Susan and Joe
spotted a van and jumped into it. Luckily, Jack’s car was
faster because it was a supercar - a red jeep Lamborghini
with big wheels and a super engine.
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“Oh no, Susan and Joe are gaining on us!” said Jill.
The Guardaí had now joined the chase, following the van
and pulling them over. They asked Susan and Joe to pull
down the window but Susan and Joe sped off instead!
Jill, Jack, Robert 647 and Timmy were winning the chase,
all while enjoying their tacos and ice cream. Susan and
Joe caught up with them though, but the gang threw their
ice cream on the windscreen of Susan and Joe’s car to
block their view.
When Susan and Joe try to wipe the windscreen with the
wipers, it just made everything worse. The ice cream
wouldn’t rub off!
Suddenly, Jack’s supercar ran out of power and stopped
in the middle of the road. Susan and Joe jumped out of
the ice cream-ruined van, picked up a rock and smashed
it through the front window of the supercar! Jack quickly
checked the boot and found a charger for the supercar.
They drove off again.
One of the Gardaí called dispatch: “We’ve got a runner!!”
Joe opened the back of the supercar and threw out loads
of spike traps, which burst the tyres, causing the Guardaí
to lose control.
“Oh no, the tyres have popped,” said the Guards, “but
luckily we have called for backup!”
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Meanwhile, the Guardaí snuck up behind Susan and Joe
and handcuffed them.
“You’re going to jail!” they bellowed.
In a haste, Susan called Aoibhíonn, her friend who worked
as a Garda spy.
“Don’t worry Susan, I’ll be right there,” said Aoibhíonn
on the phone.
Aoibhíonn arrives at the scene and acts like she was going
release Susan but actually tightens the handcuffs!
“What are you doing, I thought you were my friend?!”
cried Susan.
Chapter Four: The Guffer Gang
Meanwhile, Jack, Jill, Robert 647 and Timmy were back
at home, relaxing when they received an emergency call
from the Gardaí.
“Susan has escaped!” the Guards yelled. “Can you come
back here to the crime scene ASAP?”
“OK, we are on our way!” the gang responded.
They zoomed back in their battered and broken-down
supercar. Their bumper scraped off the road as it went,
making scrap, bump, scrap, bump noises. The car then
screeched to a halt beside a forest.
“I’m an undercover good Guard, not your friend,”
Aoibhíonn told her.
“How could you?! I thought you were here to save me!”
said Susan.
Little did Susan and Joe know that Jack could do magic.
He conjured a smoke bomb, which created a sea of mist
around them. In a puff of smoke, the supercar with Jack,
Jill, Robert 647 and Timmy disappeared home…
In the meantime, Aoibhíonn is mocking Susan. “Bye
Susan, you’re by yourself now!!” she jeered.
Out of nowhere, the mutant pig, Hogtrotter the Third
appeared and bit at Susan’s cuffs, allowing her to escape
but leaving Joe behind…
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The gang heard a noise coming from a big tree nearby.
They saw an 18-wheeler truck with a large fluffy bird at
the wheel emerging from the forest. Robert 647 fainted
at this sight! The bird’s name was Guff and he came out
of the car and said in a screechy voice, “Do you guys need
a ride?”
“Yes!” they all answered in unison, and decided to call
themselves the Guffer Gang.
Guff picked up their supercar and placed it at the back
of the 18-wheeler. He took off into the air, with the
help of five flying hamsters called Sir Fluffington of
Hamstershire Minus the Third. Eminem songs blared
from the speakers of the 18-wheeler on the way.
Meanwhile, back at the crime scene, Joe realised why
Hogtrotter released Susan. He had been nibbling at her
taco-smelling hands and had mistakenly let her go! Joe
had eaten no tacos, hence why he wasn’t accidentally set
free. He was still in handcuffs.
Just then, the 18-wheeler landed roughly at the crime
scene. It was eerily quiet until Susan jumped from a
small building nearby and retrieved Joe with a machine
gun in her hands. The Gardaí play warped kahoot music
in an attempt to neutralise her. She escaped, however, on
her 100-wheeled roller skates, spraying Brussels sprout
bullets behind her and damaging the engine of the 18-
wheeler!
“What in the world? Get after them!” shouted the Gardaí
to the new gang the Guffers.
“Isn’t that yer job?” Guff responded.
“Not anymore, we quit!” they told him. The Guffer Gang
climbed aboard Guff, who flew off chasing Susan and Joe.
The gang had pencil-loaded guns to protect themselves.
Guff then dropped small pebbles, which tripped Susan
up. Guff landed the second that she tripped, catching her
before she fell. He scooped up Joe, too, and took them
back to his base.
At Guff’s base, the gang also used his tools to repair the
18-wheeler.
Joe admitted that Susan made him help her all along,
so the gang decided to separate them for interrogation.
During the interrogation, Susan suddenly said, “Where
am I?”
“What do you mean? You’re in our secret base, obviously.
But it’s not so secret now,” Guff replied.
“Who are ye?” responded Susan sheepishly.
Jill realised that Susan was hypnotised and the hypnosis
has begun to wear off. “It must have been the tacos,”
thought Jill.
Out loud, Jill asked, “Who are you, really?”
“I’m just a taco server called Tootsie Taco,” replied Susan
- or rather, the newly awoken Tootsie Taco. “What’s
been happening? Why am I here?”
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“Oh wait, what about Hogtrotter?” asked Robert 647,
thinking the mutant pig could be the culprit.
Little did they know that Hogtrotter was actually a human
in disguise trying to plot his revenge on Jill, all this time!
THE END
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Authors
The Betrayals
Illustrations by Shauna Callanan
CHAPTER 1 – A Trip to the Real World
Mary Queen of Ireland G.N.S. Shannabooly,
Caherdavin, Limerick
4th Class
Teachers: Karen McMahon
SNA: Aoife Murray
Jersey Leigh Casey
Faye Graham Ryan
Riley Cronin
Sophie Scanlon
Louiseanna O’ Halloran
Sienna Glasheen
Beth Cadogan
Emma O Donnell
Taylor McNamara
Anna Jablonska
Sofia Chovhan
Hollie Nolan
Destiny Faulkner
Ruby Howard
Kaia Bennis
Claudia Navenicka
Lily Clarke
Jemima Layode
Cattaleya Bourke
Sumer Almadani
Amina Mustapha Garba
Emily Lillis
Tala Elsheikh
Grace O’ Rahilly
Emily Ryan
Ruby Howard
CHAPTER 2 – Toe-tal Drama
Salesian Primary school, North Circular Rd ,
Farranshone, Limerick
5th Class
Teacher: Michelle O’Connell
CHAPTER 3 – Jimmy Gone Rogue
Salesian Primary school, North Circular Road,
Farranshone, Limerick
5th Class
Teacher: Eimear O’Reilly
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Cheese Mayhem
Illustrations by Shauna Callanan
CHAPTER 1 – The Chickpea Chase
Christ the King BNS, Shannabooly, Caherdavin, Limerick
5th Class
Teachers: Mike Cronin, Ellen O’Leary, Deirdre Noonan
Ashley McCarthy
Cayden Kelly
Colin Stacke
Danny McDonagh
Elliot Cronin
Franciszek
-Konopczynski
Jacob Fitzgerald
Jake Tinney
Jay Cremins
Jerard Walshe
Kevin Bisiriyu
Luke Ahern
Adam Casey
Martin Philpott
-O’Gorman
Michéal Delahunty
Mohammed Alkhaled
Nathan O’Mahony
Nathan Shinners
Robert Veilands
Ryan Ribu
Sean Bourke
Sean Irwin
Sean Kirwan
Taimur Choudhry
Warren Wallace
Cillian Nolan
Cathal Sarsfield
Cián Slattery
Daniel O’Riordan
Conor O’Meara
Fionn Ryan
Jamie Nestor
Julian Forde
Morgan Sheedy
Niall O’Meara
Vivaan Tilak
CHAPTER 3 – Cheesemageddon
JFK Memorial School, Ennis Road, Farranshone, Limerick
6th Class
Teacher: Eadaoin Heffernan
Shayan Abu Bakar
Abdulmenem Ahmed
Pierce Begley
Toby Conlon
Oisín Dillane
Adam Dunajsky
Tristan Finc Curtis
Conor Flanagan
Philip Foks
Gael Garcia Rabadan
Brendons Hanzens
Luke Hartnett
Jinsong He
Adam Healy
Md. Shahriyr Hossain
Luke Kelly
Kai Maj-Dissanayake
Anton Nieuwoudt
Sean O’Callaghan
Cian O’Donnell
Aaron O’Keeffe
Rozel Pepito
Ruairi Riordan
Hugo Roberts
Kiril Rozvodovsky
Kristian Slavov
Evan Waters
CHAPTER 2 – Chickobot’s Revenge
Christ the King Bns, Shannabooly,
Caherdavin, Limerick
5th & 6th Class
Teachers: Eddie Hassett, Brian Campbell, Deirdre Noonan
SNA: Jonny O’Shea
Ahmed Mustapha
-Garba
Aidan Walsh
Alan McCarthy
Ashton Lillis Hayes
David Leonarczyk
David Picarra
Jack Clarke
Jake O’Loughlin
James Rooney
John Walsh
Jonathan O’Donoghue
Kyle Carey
Nathan McKevitt
Reece Power Morgan
CHAPTER 4 – Cheese Flood in the Oval Office
Meelick Primary School, Stonepark, Co. Clare
3rd & 4th Class
Teacher: Anne Jordan
Joey Power
Mikey Kelly
Matthew Broggy
Anna Ringrose
Izabella Polczak
Sinead Power
Lucy Prieto
Michael Aherne
Lily Tobin
Jack Riordan
Molly Prieto
Penny Ross
Maeve White
James Kennedy
James O’Carroll
Tadhg Byrnes
Emma O’Connor
Ross Galligan
Denis Kuzmins
Maebh Moloney
Daniel Cannon
Hailey Burke
Alvah Quinn O’Toole
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Guff Saves the Day
Illustrations by Shauna Callanan
CHAPTER 1 – Jill’s Conundrum
JFK Memorial School, Ennis Road, Farranshone, Limerick
6th Class
Teacher: Róisín Synnott
Aaron O’Donoghue
Aidan Keane
Alex Kiely
Alexander Khudenko
Ben Mutsters
Caden Ó Casaide
Cillian Riordan
Conor Cosgrave
Darren Moriarty
Denis Medveckis
Dylan Ward
Ehan Shoaib Hasan
Gavin Hayes
Hayden Walton
Khaleed Salami
Kion Vaughan
Liam Cantwell
Marcel August
Mark Awoudou
Michael Bazarov
Najeeb Alikhail
Nathan Mutsters
Oliwier Nowak
Rhys Bodie
Sa’id Kamel
Salih Mohamed Agaarib
Seán Dowling
Shay Ryan
Trijal Pradeep Rai
Yevhenii (Gek) Slodzik
CHAPTER 3 – The Spy Club
Thomond Primary School, Ballynanty, Limerick
2nd Class
Teacher: Kate Hurley
James Costelloe
Bradley Toomey -
Moloney
Joshua Vaughan
Jason Kelly Ryan
Ifechukwu Ajufo
Harry Johnson
Jason O’Halloran
William Faulkner
Brooke Dillon
Mila Brisk
Laciann Wyse
Terri Ann Harris
- O’Callaghan
Teresa Marie Shannon
Ella Doyle
Mackenzie Fitzgerald
Lucy Dillon
Kourtney Hayes Ryan
Amelia Costelloe
Jessica Myles
Chloe O’Dell
Freya Griffin
Alisha Panray
-Ramchurn
CHAPTER 2 – Taco Time
Corpus Christi Primary School, Moyross, Limerick
2nd Class
Teachers: Mr T. McGuane, Mr T. Harnett, Ms. H. McAlea
CHAPTER 4 – The Guffer Gang
Meelick Primary School, Stonepark, Co. Clare
5th & 6th Class
Teacher: Denis O’Donnell
Volodymyr Bryzhan
James Connolly
Jack Crawford
Amelia Duffy Cislikauskaite
Zara Hanlon
Isabella Horton
Aubree
-McMahon Butler
Neala Noonan
Jamie O’ Donnell
Layla Mae O’ Donoghue
Cole Hoare
Jayden Ryan
Kleo Ryan
Faye Sheehan
Harry Smith
Beth Tubridy O’Connor
Kelly Weng
Kevin Weng
Tara Goff
Conor O’Brien
Harry Stokes
Orla White
Faye Geary
Emily Lyons
Aoife Fitzgerald
Caoimhe Collins
Clodagh Riordan
Emily Concannon
Emma Neylon
Maggie Mae Moloney
Oscar Bynres
Matias Sacramento
Kara O’Dwyer
Nathaniel Ciju
Chloe Thorne
Rebecca Ross
Owen Stokes
Elliot McCutcheon
Danny Galligan
William O’Carroll
Michaela Lane
Tom Walsh
Aishling Concannon
Layla Grimes
Sebastian Moldawa
Sam Prieto
Danny Prieto
Cian Markham Keyes
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Acknowledgements
Story Seeds: Adventures Across Limerick & Beyond Volume 2
would not have been possible without:
• All the young writers who contributed to each story that celebrate
the communities where we all live.
• All the class teachers, special needs assistants, principals and
the administration staff for coordinating the workshops and
supporting our team at the library.
• The library staff at Watch House Cross Community Library and
Rathkeale Library in Limerick for organising and facilitating all
the workshops, especially Michelle Dunning, Sarah D’Arcy and
Shauna Callanan.
• This project is funded by Creative Ireland and Limerick City and
County Council through Creative Ireland Made in Limerick Grant
2023. We are grateful for the support of Limerick Arts Council, in
particular Creative Communities Engagement Officer Sarah O’
Farrell.
• The design skills of Philip Elliott and of Pete and Louis Moreau at
Central Press, Bray, for the beautiful Story Seeds logo and book
design.
Workshop Facilitators
• Michelle Dunning
• Sarah D’Arcy
• Shauna Callanan
Story Illustrators
• Shauna Callanan
• Jack Harrison
Project Coordinators
• Michelle Dunning
• Sarah D’Arcy
Editors
• Sara Bennett
• Michelle Dunning
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