I took a shadow out on a date last night. 913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNHCuSoBMES
We looked at each other with mutual understanding, 913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNIOd8Aoj3J
and on a picnic blanket nestled down to watch the fireworks.913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuKWJv5As8Q
The sun’s stain oozed around the edge of the horizon,913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5njYGNOXMa
and suddenly my date was nothing more than some 913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaumX0Ttgdl
blurry silhouette913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG9B0BrsNnc
like those weird purple-green blotches you see 913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRMXMItfpAQ
after staring at a bright light.913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhyCkJPNVtb
Cold? I asked, but there was no answer, 913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu4uQkVVnY3
and it hadn’t been a question anyway,913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwcGVt5bKpP
but my date couldn’t care less about whether or not I wanted a blanket.913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5LELWgle3Z
He was cold and unfeeling and barely there, 913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoufXxTB0md
blotchy green and purple,913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEKunt1uBDR
fading every few seconds into the scenery, 913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7YVEHafumJ
which wasn’t pleasant either, mainly rubbish and913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXnXdhmiiP0
dead bushes.
The fireworks started, only to be interrupted halfway through by913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkHw6QyXfpd
an Alien Invasion. It turned out okay though. 913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtj7AE6bXkN
Their spinning starcrafts had been driving past,913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbNWQD171ID
and they had only wanted to see the fireworks,913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQoJpPYLKjB
so in true patriotic spirit we welcomed them. 913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0tvPK5XBnB
How could any of us deny them such a simple wish913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlaUNaWVuQW
on such a lovely humid sticky yukky night?913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsc455Zw9MB
Then some of the babies got scared of their glowy eyestalks, and started crying, 913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpT1E3hi1SL
so the aliens got moved to a cordoned section913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG0xYIjHK0z
which was for the good of everyone. 913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJrfzARhNhh
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, 913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwNbamm3gql
the shadow, 913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5vXZxPuC9K
in the chaos, 913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZwy8WicmBU
so I sat next to a little old lady913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOrBzwhBnnQ
and her grandson, and the evening got a hell of a lot weirder. 913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX6DvdpCTC6
It did get more interesting, too, and913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5k9ngUkmCK
secretly, I thought it was probably a good thing 913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ60lCRsG01u
that the shadow had gotten left behind.913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGxtZsAYQUc
The little old lady then introduced herself as Connie, 913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz3ixItWtuV
which may have been short for something else,913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkzxoErN4IY
and her grandson as Other Demons913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMyI2mGzaJo
(which I thought was not very subtle).
Because it turns out that they were demons,913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUZUUGACvxD
I could tell by the way their forked tail lashed in the long grass,913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7gECYQIeyo
shifty eyes all yellow aglow, fogged up by some metaphors for misery,913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOfgfWbQ7O0
or something.913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYJZ4JTgmhs
I certainly hadn’t been expecting THAT tonight, anyway,913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaILIVifcuM
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.913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJG6pJpBsUt
If you ever meet a demon, be nice. 913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrA82jffH2w
It had seemed random at the time.
I decided to have a little conversation,913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1d0MtwHMoG
you know, get to know them a bit.913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCfKzQ8iwoI
With a soundtrack of crackling thunder-like booms 913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmltfDBWASz
and sparks of ether raining down in the night sky,913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJBwvdcCdG8
I realised that actually, they maybe weren’t all that bad. 913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxrINNpda3A
They were eccentric, but good hearted, probably.913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9d7A8JoVAF
You’re welcome to come around sometime,913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2vMYDGjlxq
I said, at 84 Osborne street. 913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZTFnCLTchE
I channelled some literature; don’t bother knocking, 913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKxAhqum8Xd
and they smiled, I think, a frowny smile, 913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡImezsbBo3H
and went back to their home, 913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXK1vDlfJLd
flapping away into the clouds on black leathery wings 913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvrIbySSpPP
which reminded me of liquorice.
Later I found out that they’d been on their way913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYKg0YPQVqn
to feast on some lonely children913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD7uMZnjt8s
but had gotten sidetracked by fireworks,913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqncM46UhOj
as you do.
The fireworks had ended already913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5kuXIEcF7t
by the time I made my way back to the sleigh I’d parked 913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUoDitV5n3f
between a battered Toyota 913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxndYQOH3ul
and a hulking four wheel drive.913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6loB7DdqLK
My eight kangaroos pulled me all the way back,913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXtORKj2wd5
up and down office buildings,913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL8fsmp90Zh
through the desert,913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXnXxWBOSJB
around and around a roundabout (we got caught in the whirl)913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8xv5LRbElI
across a river, 913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3u3BYzzgOn
over the milky way,
and then we pulled up on the lawn 913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡha3liPz42P
of my suburban house.913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLijAXQKnSf
Walking inside, I flopped face down, doll-like,913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkTTveTeqpQ
and fell asleep on an old white mattress913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDeRvJCnYSu
under a fading southern cross.913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO0NJWSDzzS
Happy Australia Day913Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6EJmUiBSnN
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