I took a shadow out on a date last night. 990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ68kb0bIneG
We looked at each other with mutual understanding, 990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB0mbQBK41T
and on a picnic blanket nestled down to watch the fireworks.990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuFpccTjkoh
The sun’s stain oozed around the edge of the horizon,990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiDqNkMWwMb
and suddenly my date was nothing more than some 990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8d2GSPofCF
blurry silhouette990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRpmFogtJAC
like those weird purple-green blotches you see 990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMfwLcPVoVB
after staring at a bright light.990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡExxPAYjBRe
Cold? I asked, but there was no answer, 990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQv6YXBO5e5
and it hadn’t been a question anyway,990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAgajPftfiH
but my date couldn’t care less about whether or not I wanted a blanket.990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIEpq6BgNbY
He was cold and unfeeling and barely there, 990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx3jdSPLluy
blotchy green and purple,990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOq5WYBd8jS
fading every few seconds into the scenery, 990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEVe1AiBDJv
which wasn’t pleasant either, mainly rubbish and990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡABaxr97qcc
dead bushes.
The fireworks started, only to be interrupted halfway through by990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBK3lbeQyel
an Alien Invasion. It turned out okay though. 990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8sjUF2cgo7
Their spinning starcrafts had been driving past,990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLyqGdNSJAU
and they had only wanted to see the fireworks,990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWncfjTjsmI
so in true patriotic spirit we welcomed them. 990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmZN2T7DU3c
How could any of us deny them such a simple wish990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr9X7Y2LcwQ
on such a lovely humid sticky yukky night?990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBcHnAVfSAO
Then some of the babies got scared of their glowy eyestalks, and started crying, 990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2liFyzUjtm
so the aliens got moved to a cordoned section990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiaW053B2ox
which was for the good of everyone. 990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeHWZYi4cU5
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, 990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfRkBHIgh1e
the shadow, 990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx2SHyZeWzn
in the chaos, 990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡndsNCLlshR
so I sat next to a little old lady990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDwLIEglpPt
and her grandson, and the evening got a hell of a lot weirder. 990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfC9a9Iq4C7
It did get more interesting, too, and990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYiv5pMZKfK
secretly, I thought it was probably a good thing 990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyxxYZPuRv4
that the shadow had gotten left behind.990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEMmv5apuuE
The little old lady then introduced herself as Connie, 990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGHOmTeY8QM
which may have been short for something else,990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfOjG1gFxLI
and her grandson as Other Demons990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2fqZjsE67E
(which I thought was not very subtle).
Because it turns out that they were demons,990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡffevqfgqmW
I could tell by the way their forked tail lashed in the long grass,990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ76uzpBJfDv
shifty eyes all yellow aglow, fogged up by some metaphors for misery,990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdVEHIyxqGd
or something.990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAgHBvSOY9n
I certainly hadn’t been expecting THAT tonight, anyway,990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPJTTfwn2o4
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.990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaTavRE9Pwp
If you ever meet a demon, be nice. 990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNTmbyDOToJ
It had seemed random at the time.
I decided to have a little conversation,990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi4JysX0viz
you know, get to know them a bit.990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkYFgi9E76k
With a soundtrack of crackling thunder-like booms 990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWMJRatCl9j
and sparks of ether raining down in the night sky,990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgQkYlJbFK4
I realised that actually, they maybe weren’t all that bad. 990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWkEh0Bqr8e
They were eccentric, but good hearted, probably.990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdnCVx1zzWi
You’re welcome to come around sometime,990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVazoh2iOLj
I said, at 84 Osborne street. 990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEUCkhfeetA
I channelled some literature; don’t bother knocking, 990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHeEo0fCNFC
and they smiled, I think, a frowny smile, 990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1EfBY0ajIV
and went back to their home, 990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMovMrdu1fm
flapping away into the clouds on black leathery wings 990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbAg1WjmQFt
which reminded me of liquorice.
Later I found out that they’d been on their way990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjbxmyKkkIS
to feast on some lonely children990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4sn5ptkrUF
but had gotten sidetracked by fireworks,990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAvotuR3qwO
as you do.
The fireworks had ended already990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlfoolaSCGW
by the time I made my way back to the sleigh I’d parked 990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgfIk57j9tS
between a battered Toyota 990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZugwSFT65A
and a hulking four wheel drive.990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUPejIwJ5fu
My eight kangaroos pulled me all the way back,990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm9MQMThicc
up and down office buildings,990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFT7m8uUTRP
through the desert,990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAfhnue65GU
around and around a roundabout (we got caught in the whirl)990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx0in9OfCUv
across a river, 990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoZqFk4vFn3
over the milky way,
and then we pulled up on the lawn 990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyC2WVhNb3P
of my suburban house.990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmagyJ6xczE
Walking inside, I flopped face down, doll-like,990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcERX41w1Qm
and fell asleep on an old white mattress990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi5IgMJqI8J
under a fading southern cross.990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcHXYuYQSAT
Happy Australia Day990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqaEHpyoneR
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