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April winners – adult writers
For April, we asked for 50 word fiction stories featuring wellies.
Congratulations to the winners of our April competition. Feeling inspired? Have a go at this month's prompt.
Adult winner
Steven Lemprière
Green-fingered, you rejected cremation, wishing to nourish soil, so today you're destined to journey six feet further from me.
Respects offered, mourners retire, some scattering earth on your coffin. I delay. Wearing your garden wellies; I toe a clod of boot-impressed soil beyond the grave’s margin — reuniting body and sole.
Gaelic winner
Anna NicAmhlaigh
Thuirt i ris gun robh e ceàrr. Nach dèanadh na bòtannan a shàbhaladh san stoirm. “Chan eil tuigs’ agad air saidheans,” ars esan, “Insulators a th’ annta.” Nuair a leag an dealanach e, gun deò air an talamh, ceò às na bòtannan, cha robh aiceise ach “Seadh dhut!”
Translation by The Gaelic Books Council
She told him he was wrong. That the wellies wouldn’t protect him during the storm. “You don’t understand science,” said he. “They’re insulators.” When the lightning knocked him to the ground, not breathing, with smoke coming from the wellies, all she said was, “There you go!”