I took a shadow out on a date last night. 918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPkE2hcsFdE
We looked at each other with mutual understanding, 918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBnQ5jlChpJ
and on a picnic blanket nestled down to watch the fireworks.918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDbuS7atNeE
The sun’s stain oozed around the edge of the horizon,918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuOJBITbjEJ
and suddenly my date was nothing more than some 918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH42rCyHoN6
blurry silhouette918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbymnNeTwCw
like those weird purple-green blotches you see 918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW8uPs5bv1s
after staring at a bright light.918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaU7WVxx61c
Cold? I asked, but there was no answer, 918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoBvLnOEGt8
and it hadn’t been a question anyway,918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1ZTEbPkUpP
but my date couldn’t care less about whether or not I wanted a blanket.918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPkop0JzD7D
He was cold and unfeeling and barely there, 918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ08hSRVpPyt
blotchy green and purple,918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVYyFq2PZyA
fading every few seconds into the scenery, 918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9ZqMCSnTW4
which wasn’t pleasant either, mainly rubbish and918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDSXSdDIOrb
dead bushes.
The fireworks started, only to be interrupted halfway through by918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBZmPWr2cDg
an Alien Invasion. It turned out okay though. 918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2gAf4Klwdw
Their spinning starcrafts had been driving past,918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9aAGytDQ6p
and they had only wanted to see the fireworks,918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOFOR3uRwDX
so in true patriotic spirit we welcomed them. 918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB8ZlJN0Cl3
How could any of us deny them such a simple wish918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3dECpa1nUC
on such a lovely humid sticky yukky night?918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAnrvsGtxTi
Then some of the babies got scared of their glowy eyestalks, and started crying, 918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9ZLWB9rP8U
so the aliens got moved to a cordoned section918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEgc7rsDHbp
which was for the good of everyone. 918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF0uu1KdVF7
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, 918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlO66jfoaHS
the shadow, 918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0XlzOYvYMj
in the chaos, 918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeFJxzx1x5V
so I sat next to a little old lady918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLFPEp3C6GA
and her grandson, and the evening got a hell of a lot weirder. 918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwzMi00HBlC
It did get more interesting, too, and918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM95Gw7gSqT
secretly, I thought it was probably a good thing 918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL1D5CGT9TL
that the shadow had gotten left behind.918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKlCq3X9Otn
The little old lady then introduced herself as Connie, 918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlIyZxp0DTZ
which may have been short for something else,918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7stok9IsEh
and her grandson as Other Demons918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡitMMQxeP4g
(which I thought was not very subtle).
Because it turns out that they were demons,918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9bCLZZqCMU
I could tell by the way their forked tail lashed in the long grass,918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX64dPLayPx
shifty eyes all yellow aglow, fogged up by some metaphors for misery,918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY5biBR7qzC
or something.918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZtxHXdqPQX
I certainly hadn’t been expecting THAT tonight, anyway,918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ94uDPqyEnH
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.918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsBBkEAFQWg
If you ever meet a demon, be nice. 918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5EnpMkvOk5
It had seemed random at the time.
I decided to have a little conversation,918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMdxGtrnnvB
you know, get to know them a bit.918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQihq9NhN6t
With a soundtrack of crackling thunder-like booms 918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhsXLGte9KL
and sparks of ether raining down in the night sky,918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnrrrDIoIyt
I realised that actually, they maybe weren’t all that bad. 918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkYeNuq91wW
They were eccentric, but good hearted, probably.918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbY0oitDqJ5
You’re welcome to come around sometime,918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzVnFhZK84G
I said, at 84 Osborne street. 918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAtMPGehYUI
I channelled some literature; don’t bother knocking, 918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuMk5wUqCxv
and they smiled, I think, a frowny smile, 918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1ueGyYLe30
and went back to their home, 918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKPz87oKLhf
flapping away into the clouds on black leathery wings 918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT4UKUkxHNG
which reminded me of liquorice.
Later I found out that they’d been on their way918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡONi4ZcmsxQ
to feast on some lonely children918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmIuuKo3WZ5
but had gotten sidetracked by fireworks,918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhqkjPKCH6D
as you do.
The fireworks had ended already918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjgyIKP6W4Y
by the time I made my way back to the sleigh I’d parked 918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCaeGFozNtl
between a battered Toyota 918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHgc4OKfIc8
and a hulking four wheel drive.918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ71MHfSiqVj
My eight kangaroos pulled me all the way back,918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO6OYdbbzRf
up and down office buildings,918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdUTCtAgCbn
through the desert,918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbUUvbaaZRB
around and around a roundabout (we got caught in the whirl)918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4QZVdPH0mQ
across a river, 918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKQxoK2nSm9
over the milky way,
and then we pulled up on the lawn 918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIgKzd6OVRl
of my suburban house.918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzXaLkX3Jcq
Walking inside, I flopped face down, doll-like,918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiARASt6hxQ
and fell asleep on an old white mattress918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLmMxnQOZss
under a fading southern cross.918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm4RZIvfdjB
Happy Australia Day918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkNpJPnHQ4x
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