I took a shadow out on a date last night. 966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8rrQCPag55
We looked at each other with mutual understanding, 966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCFLOZfVMib
and on a picnic blanket nestled down to watch the fireworks.966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Q1WrTjiLU
The sun’s stain oozed around the edge of the horizon,966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF2d8P8fSqu
and suddenly my date was nothing more than some 966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxZuQkes1MB
blurry silhouette966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCLLLngNDhq
like those weird purple-green blotches you see 966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIdGNeb8ZXk
after staring at a bright light.966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPTJ0bJeP0E
Cold? I asked, but there was no answer, 966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP49aEEpgzd
and it hadn’t been a question anyway,966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHrc8iPvoXc
but my date couldn’t care less about whether or not I wanted a blanket.966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKd9cg1aIQu
He was cold and unfeeling and barely there, 966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQel47fIwYt
blotchy green and purple,966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCID4Cum5OV
fading every few seconds into the scenery, 966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRSCvL01Wdf
which wasn’t pleasant either, mainly rubbish and966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKhMoIFyAva
dead bushes.
The fireworks started, only to be interrupted halfway through by966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7coC7ieEiT
an Alien Invasion. It turned out okay though. 966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8q1z91xJVM
Their spinning starcrafts had been driving past,966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSkz93x3Zr8
and they had only wanted to see the fireworks,966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXMtgYUDZET
so in true patriotic spirit we welcomed them. 966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwf1qOF7LA6
How could any of us deny them such a simple wish966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaNuha7i929
on such a lovely humid sticky yukky night?966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKJyGo7ITFk
Then some of the babies got scared of their glowy eyestalks, and started crying, 966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZWYDOIPGGs
so the aliens got moved to a cordoned section966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡamIhTUFNkj
which was for the good of everyone. 966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoDFylKqUtr
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, 966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgIdva1l5kR
the shadow, 966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbYRfxmCvQE
in the chaos, 966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFs6JCqs8BJ
so I sat next to a little old lady966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi4p5tqoLz2
and her grandson, and the evening got a hell of a lot weirder. 966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5q5M2QxTBB
It did get more interesting, too, and966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1MKk4aWpBU
secretly, I thought it was probably a good thing 966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRzveGCQlMU
that the shadow had gotten left behind.966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxndZ3qWBVL
The little old lady then introduced herself as Connie, 966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUDsyP0qpSr
which may have been short for something else,966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiJkLOVOFHz
and her grandson as Other Demons966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYBPydLc3ay
(which I thought was not very subtle).
Because it turns out that they were demons,966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfU86pClakn
I could tell by the way their forked tail lashed in the long grass,966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmVeYkEmDbw
shifty eyes all yellow aglow, fogged up by some metaphors for misery,966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUQEPVILu4h
or something.966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5KzL96iQh3
I certainly hadn’t been expecting THAT tonight, anyway,966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHvSaDrIGkd
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.966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUMn7NuRW3p
If you ever meet a demon, be nice. 966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡban31y3L8Y
It had seemed random at the time.
I decided to have a little conversation,966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH7lrNFnqpK
you know, get to know them a bit.966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYrIxXYzyo0
With a soundtrack of crackling thunder-like booms 966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXH1iK74JxR
and sparks of ether raining down in the night sky,966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgxtLH1pBUk
I realised that actually, they maybe weren’t all that bad. 966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG2kV6GGUYg
They were eccentric, but good hearted, probably.966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvZh44st7EM
You’re welcome to come around sometime,966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJrNRjbxnNb
I said, at 84 Osborne street. 966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgsXxLIQWIl
I channelled some literature; don’t bother knocking, 966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPqK5l6c9dL
and they smiled, I think, a frowny smile, 966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡENgokWCjyy
and went back to their home, 966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPW8xZy99OL
flapping away into the clouds on black leathery wings 966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqAlPFKtQq7
which reminded me of liquorice.
Later I found out that they’d been on their way966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVxbz34IO6H
to feast on some lonely children966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWPURiKMnKP
but had gotten sidetracked by fireworks,966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHbtwry3MR6
as you do.
The fireworks had ended already966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAZsSnzhplO
by the time I made my way back to the sleigh I’d parked 966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKGAheUfAAg
between a battered Toyota 966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT3zTwLhmji
and a hulking four wheel drive.966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9W8VzsxwoZ
My eight kangaroos pulled me all the way back,966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4LzHwTV2LT
up and down office buildings,966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe7mHhmjKE5
through the desert,966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCeXrP0gbmc
around and around a roundabout (we got caught in the whirl)966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0zrao3Ha7P
across a river, 966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtVAgJRLLVh
over the milky way,
and then we pulled up on the lawn 966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡERSI49DVoA
of my suburban house.966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPv2uWAXtyG
Walking inside, I flopped face down, doll-like,966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmwyav5rmLs
and fell asleep on an old white mattress966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5gPUUtOXj0
under a fading southern cross.966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlV8MVzE0xI
Happy Australia Day966Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSzgyAdjKnc
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