‘My name is Lorelei’ by Phoebe Hartley

My name is Lorelei. I am their downfall. Mine is the voice in the storm. Ever since I was young,…

‘The Most Secretive Of Them All’ by Francesca Whapples

The woods are deep; the woods are vast. They sweep down from the higher ground and into the valley, encircling…

Dear Diary… The village is tranquil, separated from the hostile and inhabitable mass of woods that surround us. The village…

This story was written collaboratively by students at Boroughbridge High School: Iris, Purwa, Summer, Abi and Joe. The creaking gate…

It was a seemingly quiet place; the only way into the town was an almost invisible side road at the…

It’s there. It’s always there. The voice, the guilt, for every mistake she’s made. Wherever she goes, it follows and…

I wake up screaming. The pounding in my head is almost as painful as the scratch marks I inflicted in…

Daryl had heard more bank, house and car alarms than anyone. It was like music to his ears. He started…

All over the Arctic, polar bears are dying; starving because of melting ice which stops them hunting or left floating…

The icy cold wind brushed itself roughly against my skin. I shivered as goosebumps rose up unwillingly. The sky slowly…

Her soul is stained with your black ink, These scars won’t fade and haven’t healed with time, And still, she…

Sometimes, I still think of home. It seems alien now, as though it came from another life. There are times…

The horse’s hooves battered the ground with such a force anyone walking past would have thought it was an earthquake.…

I remember walking up and down the beach. Watching the deep, blue sea washing up and down the sandy beach,…

It was beginning to get late; the wind and rain beated endlessly upon the library windows. The bookshelves trembled against…

I don’t know why I did this. I came the closest to death that’s even possible, and it was all…

The town was small. It was quiet and tidy. The town had a main street. On the main street was…

Isolated by trees and forest, the small town of Evermay sat protected by the unknown. Brightly coloured houses and shops…

Students at Boroughbridge High School have spent our open evening on this first installment of a story set in the…

Endless fields roll over the hills, growing cabbages and other crops. Acres of farmland for the animals. The nearest town…