I took a shadow out on a date last night. 944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0vTTGhL3J2
We looked at each other with mutual understanding, 944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYy6vU6XCHu
and on a picnic blanket nestled down to watch the fireworks.944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjcnxLjtifk
The sun’s stain oozed around the edge of the horizon,944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4gNc4SAPdM
and suddenly my date was nothing more than some 944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡixCtpQRvp1
blurry silhouette944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCkn1MC4NZY
like those weird purple-green blotches you see 944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Zzipe0cEz
after staring at a bright light.944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnaV0oHmlUS
Cold? I asked, but there was no answer, 944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsofeqBsF77
and it hadn’t been a question anyway,944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYJ1MyA73Ki
but my date couldn’t care less about whether or not I wanted a blanket.944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOUIsP8TVwi
He was cold and unfeeling and barely there, 944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyTiGPfOpHa
blotchy green and purple,944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlzlvCOrJxa
fading every few seconds into the scenery, 944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0kiwbHQ3B8
which wasn’t pleasant either, mainly rubbish and944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBmet1sy6QF
dead bushes.
The fireworks started, only to be interrupted halfway through by944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi7fUyXqBuU
an Alien Invasion. It turned out okay though. 944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQHes11EjDP
Their spinning starcrafts had been driving past,944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsNsj1KU3Oj
and they had only wanted to see the fireworks,944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF8Eu3456YE
so in true patriotic spirit we welcomed them. 944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPrr2O7hk86
How could any of us deny them such a simple wish944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOkQ9oA6In4
on such a lovely humid sticky yukky night?944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡksixp4mKoy
Then some of the babies got scared of their glowy eyestalks, and started crying, 944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOKtwkAWZOs
so the aliens got moved to a cordoned section944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWkFQVIh0ir
which was for the good of everyone. 944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWx0TJnMS9Y
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, 944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeqO2gC1CdX
the shadow, 944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJbdSbGS1Hn
in the chaos, 944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCb9S3IeeT9
so I sat next to a little old lady944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYSYwlU3UD6
and her grandson, and the evening got a hell of a lot weirder. 944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM2BWZRaC6w
It did get more interesting, too, and944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb5UGhMJrv1
secretly, I thought it was probably a good thing 944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7nym4tAzq3
that the shadow had gotten left behind.944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0wetRKZu3M
The little old lady then introduced herself as Connie, 944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNHopjGWvkm
which may have been short for something else,944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwhPCwcEuiE
and her grandson as Other Demons944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgiyLCkrVTg
(which I thought was not very subtle).
Because it turns out that they were demons,944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxdkEBllLwo
I could tell by the way their forked tail lashed in the long grass,944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡua4Ey82gpB
shifty eyes all yellow aglow, fogged up by some metaphors for misery,944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIXiZ9mmtDA
or something.944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnOpWjbb9kX
I certainly hadn’t been expecting THAT tonight, anyway,944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ97j5EiAw24
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.944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDCxOjODLfd
If you ever meet a demon, be nice. 944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy0ayQQ7gLC
It had seemed random at the time.
I decided to have a little conversation,944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgU6KNJWK0A
you know, get to know them a bit.944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdKAqd69QKI
With a soundtrack of crackling thunder-like booms 944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6vwCBt7otM
and sparks of ether raining down in the night sky,944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB9hf7hpyVK
I realised that actually, they maybe weren’t all that bad. 944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxUkfSeZmgt
They were eccentric, but good hearted, probably.944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa8FvjcQxtZ
You’re welcome to come around sometime,944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2R9KArbHMm
I said, at 84 Osborne street. 944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrZUvmDh2vK
I channelled some literature; don’t bother knocking, 944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdlaXuHIJS2
and they smiled, I think, a frowny smile, 944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgUn2Hz2VHB
and went back to their home, 944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwM3DLc1qWV
flapping away into the clouds on black leathery wings 944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUpBDm3O9Uj
which reminded me of liquorice.
Later I found out that they’d been on their way944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrkGsohc1Yb
to feast on some lonely children944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡblkemt8crp
but had gotten sidetracked by fireworks,944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaMDxQ5tePK
as you do.
The fireworks had ended already944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkHH1PsFtAV
by the time I made my way back to the sleigh I’d parked 944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXTCKSM98W6
between a battered Toyota 944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT4IOoJZjT2
and a hulking four wheel drive.944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC1E2tJoAgy
My eight kangaroos pulled me all the way back,944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSjnGFp6kL5
up and down office buildings,944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFjIXqHqtcE
through the desert,944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu6AuSDsdyL
around and around a roundabout (we got caught in the whirl)944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdjOhWPHfmB
across a river, 944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgQpDwomznE
over the milky way,
and then we pulled up on the lawn 944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSBNRZAwYxJ
of my suburban house.944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgFIKzJQR2R
Walking inside, I flopped face down, doll-like,944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHqXUx6H5KU
and fell asleep on an old white mattress944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJj1jK9nZuH
under a fading southern cross.944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn63dSC2u7v
Happy Australia Day944Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnyrwPWbEVi
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