I took a shadow out on a date last night. 1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHTvyu7Xw15
We looked at each other with mutual understanding, 1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡykb7my9Sem
and on a picnic blanket nestled down to watch the fireworks.1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcJNzNGxm14
The sun’s stain oozed around the edge of the horizon,1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB60uBZ6uUu
and suddenly my date was nothing more than some 1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYICDHsBO04
blurry silhouette1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0TNSVLFcq7
like those weird purple-green blotches you see 1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmxpvxJU0L8
after staring at a bright light.1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjDN56p9vVu
Cold? I asked, but there was no answer, 1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOQSgf1aK3E
and it hadn’t been a question anyway,1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNIHt9Oc9Q0
but my date couldn’t care less about whether or not I wanted a blanket.1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUHUAl5KOj7
He was cold and unfeeling and barely there, 1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0TkKPF3Cup
blotchy green and purple,1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqUPp1K8ejD
fading every few seconds into the scenery, 1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgTowq1I6zA
which wasn’t pleasant either, mainly rubbish and1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY9Aj09Csx0
dead bushes.
The fireworks started, only to be interrupted halfway through by1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH62SWqssOr
an Alien Invasion. It turned out okay though. 1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsMXkodHJ0T
Their spinning starcrafts had been driving past,1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLH9itZwsZf
and they had only wanted to see the fireworks,1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAoeJZIhYgn
so in true patriotic spirit we welcomed them. 1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPcFXSUJTCK
How could any of us deny them such a simple wish1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡObWmAoBrhB
on such a lovely humid sticky yukky night?1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvNKZQY5ud6
Then some of the babies got scared of their glowy eyestalks, and started crying, 1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdy4sFy4TwU
so the aliens got moved to a cordoned section1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHmWYGG1SOf
which was for the good of everyone. 1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvjh3p6hcAs
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, 1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfDLEleX0Q2
the shadow, 1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpQV0CUeGlj
in the chaos, 1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzsyOXRMoU9
so I sat next to a little old lady1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCQYGT4HYeB
and her grandson, and the evening got a hell of a lot weirder. 1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsMM4dJqinq
It did get more interesting, too, and1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTqc8xLGjnj
secretly, I thought it was probably a good thing 1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡakLnmMW84h
that the shadow had gotten left behind.1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5frzBcUeqt
The little old lady then introduced herself as Connie, 1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPQOWGiqb6f
which may have been short for something else,1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu5m9i7lFfP
and her grandson as Other Demons1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ54RQi9DaKj
(which I thought was not very subtle).
Because it turns out that they were demons,1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaDJ8tN3MS5
I could tell by the way their forked tail lashed in the long grass,1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk0mkyFjXiw
shifty eyes all yellow aglow, fogged up by some metaphors for misery,1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9UplH7nYHp
or something.1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡILblze0F5d
I certainly hadn’t been expecting THAT tonight, anyway,1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmFJHPfjQsl
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.1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI8CCf6hTa0
If you ever meet a demon, be nice. 1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUwwqizlN1H
It had seemed random at the time.
I decided to have a little conversation,1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVlhETVHTZq
you know, get to know them a bit.1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrAxdf7Q6Oq
With a soundtrack of crackling thunder-like booms 1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRkN7asDDY3
and sparks of ether raining down in the night sky,1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdrsO6TATZE
I realised that actually, they maybe weren’t all that bad. 1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmXn1k0d4RQ
They were eccentric, but good hearted, probably.1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbpdykxSfHJ
You’re welcome to come around sometime,1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCwrUMpcW7g
I said, at 84 Osborne street. 1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxrmnlayJb4
I channelled some literature; don’t bother knocking, 1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP30yhxgs1L
and they smiled, I think, a frowny smile, 1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxDGXehBsPL
and went back to their home, 1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXabXATzxuA
flapping away into the clouds on black leathery wings 1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBHQi2TogjH
which reminded me of liquorice.
Later I found out that they’d been on their way1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Qnlrzh8yn
to feast on some lonely children1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ24czrgqRO4
but had gotten sidetracked by fireworks,1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDRPxq3joII
as you do.
The fireworks had ended already1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0IdtZuWE7Z
by the time I made my way back to the sleigh I’d parked 1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9jzBDEQfi3
between a battered Toyota 1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ80t7wHoxot
and a hulking four wheel drive.1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS4tOSybBzY
My eight kangaroos pulled me all the way back,1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuRWzOo2hcY
up and down office buildings,1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUBL0ieKB8N
through the desert,1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkHUa8S0w65
around and around a roundabout (we got caught in the whirl)1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFYCmgO70Bz
across a river, 1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHlhG5UTN8X
over the milky way,
and then we pulled up on the lawn 1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsr4NCPQTZp
of my suburban house.1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4VeS8vuuta
Walking inside, I flopped face down, doll-like,1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFPhhfCj6nc
and fell asleep on an old white mattress1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpBPlzcVgil
under a fading southern cross.1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuFCm0jNaS5
Happy Australia Day1019Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVAvehn3LzM
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