I took a shadow out on a date last night. 931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9fvv8V9Sgg
We looked at each other with mutual understanding, 931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsucqQoA94U
and on a picnic blanket nestled down to watch the fireworks.931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW7W4eFOEo1
The sun’s stain oozed around the edge of the horizon,931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIevk3fqzGa
and suddenly my date was nothing more than some 931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHeLYNjRWaI
blurry silhouette931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWZKmU493rV
like those weird purple-green blotches you see 931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhOL2rhWiMc
after staring at a bright light.931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU3qE45opPc
Cold? I asked, but there was no answer, 931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHx9D4yhdH4
and it hadn’t been a question anyway,931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKUQO2dfR2l
but my date couldn’t care less about whether or not I wanted a blanket.931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoLBpkSJNGM
He was cold and unfeeling and barely there, 931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3At43LEDVV
blotchy green and purple,931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡovqpYgxEuw
fading every few seconds into the scenery, 931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO8qB0RwTWl
which wasn’t pleasant either, mainly rubbish and931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk6uonwzlSw
dead bushes.
The fireworks started, only to be interrupted halfway through by931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdmW0223BVu
an Alien Invasion. It turned out okay though. 931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1TuGRKCEWL
Their spinning starcrafts had been driving past,931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdW2c5GnLwW
and they had only wanted to see the fireworks,931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq351g2J6cE
so in true patriotic spirit we welcomed them. 931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsHe5eqbdyR
How could any of us deny them such a simple wish931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt2Fio2AVTN
on such a lovely humid sticky yukky night?931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA2qfZr1ZAl
Then some of the babies got scared of their glowy eyestalks, and started crying, 931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM5uc9s2Dd4
so the aliens got moved to a cordoned section931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYuGzfzRFH5
which was for the good of everyone. 931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpnCwko6kHX
They’d gotten a little rowdy,
if you know what I mean—
of course you do.
Doesn’t everyone?
I’d gotten separated from my date, 931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyNvSGYnWWi
the shadow, 931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgAIxJORmVY
in the chaos, 931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmJIjqCktDp
so I sat next to a little old lady931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh8ecIWjmTf
and her grandson, and the evening got a hell of a lot weirder. 931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpSLHjKy60Y
It did get more interesting, too, and931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM0IqCWqJmb
secretly, I thought it was probably a good thing 931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Av1vNiEJc
that the shadow had gotten left behind.931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ848guDkG6r
The little old lady then introduced herself as Connie, 931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAFHTpNUWs2
which may have been short for something else,931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiIVdJ19VYg
and her grandson as Other Demons931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmthroqXkSc
(which I thought was not very subtle).
Because it turns out that they were demons,931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpiTKdu1URl
I could tell by the way their forked tail lashed in the long grass,931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ02T41d4Wvg
shifty eyes all yellow aglow, fogged up by some metaphors for misery,931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3STlWJsGNW
or something.931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjzHrFIAkLC
I certainly hadn’t been expecting THAT tonight, anyway,931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZtQ2TLvUCm
and to be honest I was unsure of what to do.
I began to realise why they’d been sitting a little apart from the others.
Over the course of the night, I remembered my grandma’s advice.931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE9pSV1tZ8g
If you ever meet a demon, be nice. 931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdLGz54qLcj
It had seemed random at the time.
I decided to have a little conversation,931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5WNDGgSJc4
you know, get to know them a bit.931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXNBZRxaLw0
With a soundtrack of crackling thunder-like booms 931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6clpgnwYFo
and sparks of ether raining down in the night sky,931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7FnvtrCZ7n
I realised that actually, they maybe weren’t all that bad. 931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiAvpxRkqEm
They were eccentric, but good hearted, probably.931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp1TAlCakDo
You’re welcome to come around sometime,931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpnWfXrSlWy
I said, at 84 Osborne street. 931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWwE8QTSTdt
I channelled some literature; don’t bother knocking, 931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtjWBi9wToX
and they smiled, I think, a frowny smile, 931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLKLbdEkTWo
and went back to their home, 931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnIhhbZ5cYi
flapping away into the clouds on black leathery wings 931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnbaDQoeEUF
which reminded me of liquorice.
Later I found out that they’d been on their way931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVKkxu0XgKV
to feast on some lonely children931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPFEaxYBb7I
but had gotten sidetracked by fireworks,931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVLA1OruOMs
as you do.
The fireworks had ended already931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4O0IO5fFz4
by the time I made my way back to the sleigh I’d parked 931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlvf3DBjeth
between a battered Toyota 931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdsrGpctcG8
and a hulking four wheel drive.931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBxU7kV0BiF
My eight kangaroos pulled me all the way back,931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl8tNbkuT2C
up and down office buildings,931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3M8RuLu0zC
through the desert,931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3qLKahZpuc
around and around a roundabout (we got caught in the whirl)931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡunWGUsVHQJ
across a river, 931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmz9zt3DIUD
over the milky way,
and then we pulled up on the lawn 931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAuITpDRa7W
of my suburban house.931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyclf946Xc8
Walking inside, I flopped face down, doll-like,931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡckvF8miynw
and fell asleep on an old white mattress931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQJIjAtG9rD
under a fading southern cross.931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr35oSVzpY6
Happy Australia Day931Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL5V9fgVe5v
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