I took a shadow out on a date last night. 1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOVT9lD0lDd
We looked at each other with mutual understanding, 1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgHz2fXsHDi
and on a picnic blanket nestled down to watch the fireworks.1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9eVaNzV5wi
The sun’s stain oozed around the edge of the horizon,1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8o1NDIpeyr
and suddenly my date was nothing more than some 1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy7taVx20hK
blurry silhouette1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGU6j2wl3mx
like those weird purple-green blotches you see 1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTtnWxykDjq
after staring at a bright light.1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡotDwHsRh1a
Cold? I asked, but there was no answer, 1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqIYOZOwJ3k
and it hadn’t been a question anyway,1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVrw1EvcNAL
but my date couldn’t care less about whether or not I wanted a blanket.1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtL8TGmvEtD
He was cold and unfeeling and barely there, 1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdQKm37xrmk
blotchy green and purple,1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpkrCPMXNSJ
fading every few seconds into the scenery, 1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXTPUcaA7WV
which wasn’t pleasant either, mainly rubbish and1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHU6u8Yhnc1
dead bushes.
The fireworks started, only to be interrupted halfway through by1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcoIFxEGSxS
an Alien Invasion. It turned out okay though. 1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSxpPgQct2Q
Their spinning starcrafts had been driving past,1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmwsWIbyW9x
and they had only wanted to see the fireworks,1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3MOIMJd1H1
so in true patriotic spirit we welcomed them. 1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgqQQ9TRSDW
How could any of us deny them such a simple wish1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9A68IyJAGj
on such a lovely humid sticky yukky night?1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqVoJwOTGQu
Then some of the babies got scared of their glowy eyestalks, and started crying, 1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ06e4Y22LPk
so the aliens got moved to a cordoned section1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1GcjiLwaq2
which was for the good of everyone. 1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡffNOogsR8N
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, 1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmdfa8FrSFd
the shadow, 1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB9QQtCectc
in the chaos, 1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgx9T8xvXoD
so I sat next to a little old lady1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1STNTd2acs
and her grandson, and the evening got a hell of a lot weirder. 1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIJ4KLkJMZG
It did get more interesting, too, and1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRX4OrFQbKQ
secretly, I thought it was probably a good thing 1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlncXDKryop
that the shadow had gotten left behind.1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH5dqG4vPxV
The little old lady then introduced herself as Connie, 1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeaypoE72AM
which may have been short for something else,1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTlCQWOKzSp
and her grandson as Other Demons1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgObRgQonqM
(which I thought was not very subtle).
Because it turns out that they were demons,1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfK8DXcBrpF
I could tell by the way their forked tail lashed in the long grass,1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ04n87vr6My
shifty eyes all yellow aglow, fogged up by some metaphors for misery,1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ60Vin5R43P
or something.1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHkueKMxWLA
I certainly hadn’t been expecting THAT tonight, anyway,1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcpD2VCpffu
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.1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtY0MEoZqiN
If you ever meet a demon, be nice. 1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKoOML03PJ6
It had seemed random at the time.
I decided to have a little conversation,1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0BjOEF7vZL
you know, get to know them a bit.1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsMhaFwltv9
With a soundtrack of crackling thunder-like booms 1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhkSydSfwnB
and sparks of ether raining down in the night sky,1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTOS7zmRYEx
I realised that actually, they maybe weren’t all that bad. 1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ22MCz8BgkY
They were eccentric, but good hearted, probably.1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ8Ua87N3qu
You’re welcome to come around sometime,1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡluW193dRYE
I said, at 84 Osborne street. 1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoBZuyKZQ6f
I channelled some literature; don’t bother knocking, 1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH3N2dZt0oe
and they smiled, I think, a frowny smile, 1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyBRSyTw5f6
and went back to their home, 1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdy7DiOzNhf
flapping away into the clouds on black leathery wings 1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9KUMQw8kMu
which reminded me of liquorice.
Later I found out that they’d been on their way1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ672QrnCjVP
to feast on some lonely children1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEoj3RGuRWt
but had gotten sidetracked by fireworks,1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSXPXMwm2v8
as you do.
The fireworks had ended already1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkBFODhS9Hf
by the time I made my way back to the sleigh I’d parked 1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjMrZV6pBEP
between a battered Toyota 1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKXAddWf9HT
and a hulking four wheel drive.1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL4AmHZyEB2
My eight kangaroos pulled me all the way back,1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYjiV2Pzr7y
up and down office buildings,1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUIGb8IC6Ja
through the desert,1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYnMUFrT8gM
around and around a roundabout (we got caught in the whirl)1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRWVeIPzlAR
across a river, 1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxBu6Ona9DC
over the milky way,
and then we pulled up on the lawn 1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz93gRR6Pz9
of my suburban house.1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAuR46zKMKz
Walking inside, I flopped face down, doll-like,1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsZlNHSATNi
and fell asleep on an old white mattress1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6OG4vXOl7R
under a fading southern cross.1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqsjRYPJXYk
Happy Australia Day1089Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0fjCuVDAHl
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