Mark Liam Piggott

#MilitantFactionsQuotes 83:

-When I was a kid, he said, -mum took me to the big shop in town and I sat on Father Christmas’s knee and he got a boner. Never liked Christmas since.

Well that set them off, Giles spraying warm mist, Coll fluttering those long eyelashes and Smithy looking round to make sure they were laughing then laughing too with additional gusto. Gaz a bit irritated at the way they’d received his little anecdote he’d held inside like a hairy great turd these forty years and decided he didn’t fancy getting pissed tonight he’d see his kids ex or no.

-From "Fathers 4 Jaundice", first published by Literary Commune (2015), and one of the stories in Mark Piggott's fiction/non-fiction collection "Militant Factions" available in paperback or Kindle from Amazon.