‘Gerome built a machine that could form humans out of dust’

Fighting Words 2020: Gerome’s Great Inventions, a story by Straidbilly Primary School, Co Antrim

Illustration: Claire Mullan

Class: Primary 6 and 7
School: Straidbilly Primary School, Liscolman, Ballymoney, Co Antrim

Gerome's Great Inventions

Gerome lived in a rocky world and he travelled in a spacecraft to bring his made-up humans to Earth. This asteroid was five million light years away in space. Only one person had walked on this rocky world and that was him. Gerome had built a machine that could form humans out of dust.

Somebody reported to the FBI that he was killing people. The FBI came to the rocky world and took him to a jail in Poland. They had got it wrong. He was actually cloning people. But he didn’t make it to the jail in Poland because Doge, his best friend who lived on another asteroid, saved him with a getaway “robot Doge”.

Their friendship started when Gerome was made by another inventor. Afterwards Gerome copied the machine. They met when Doge crashed his asteroid into Gerome’s asteroid when he floated up into the air by accident. Doge had had an asteroid licence for one day only!

Illustration: Claire Mullan