Here A um! Feast yer een, ladies! Painch stawed wae wurms an berries, thrapple throbbin wae seelie sang! Whit a specimen, eh?
Haud oan! Wha’s this baloo? Sum full-throatit joker’s edged intae ma patch. Och, A cannae ootdae that…
Sae be it. Time tae pit ma yella neb tae wurk.
Written for the Scottish Book Trust’s 50 Word Fiction competition (“Blackbird” March 2022)