Mark Liam Piggott

#MilitantFactionsQuotes 72:

Wallaby’s been in the night, leaving a cabbage leaf trail and specks of blood. Miller follows the trail and behind an upturned boat finds its corpse, swarming in flies, dried blood coating bared teeth. Fetching a blunt old spade minus handle Miller tries to dig holes but the ground’s stone-baked so he gives up and places patches of spinifex on the body, knowing the ants are closing in.

“Ten Thousand Hours” was a very striking story; its plot is masterfully conducted; the setting is oppressive but never stagnant, as the story ultimately has an interesting twist." - The New Yorker.

-From "Ten thousand hours", first published by Prole Books (2011), and one of the stories in Mark Piggott's fiction/non-fiction collection "Militant Factions" available in paperback or Kindle from Amazon.