I took a shadow out on a date last night. 1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTJvA5Z7Rwm
We looked at each other with mutual understanding, 1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVGikVgFH7v
and on a picnic blanket nestled down to watch the fireworks.1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ26YvB53E6v
The sun’s stain oozed around the edge of the horizon,1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIPIGGLmF0g
and suddenly my date was nothing more than some 1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnCvFWwsQbt
blurry silhouette1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKGs3CnnUnP
like those weird purple-green blotches you see 1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK2ZqKKojDW
after staring at a bright light.1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Z6RmOlRVI
Cold? I asked, but there was no answer, 1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe6jqlrXpLC
and it hadn’t been a question anyway,1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDUuve4zVsH
but my date couldn’t care less about whether or not I wanted a blanket.1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfqd4IyQZWT
He was cold and unfeeling and barely there, 1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9WJsfxssJF
blotchy green and purple,1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTO7gkBeh1J
fading every few seconds into the scenery, 1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeeQCbMZ6a3
which wasn’t pleasant either, mainly rubbish and1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeoLGgKnDaL
dead bushes.
The fireworks started, only to be interrupted halfway through by1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0n6kRcxnKV
an Alien Invasion. It turned out okay though. 1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQc48tOy7dd
Their spinning starcrafts had been driving past,1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvyOaEXycJG
and they had only wanted to see the fireworks,1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfSmrpULwoO
so in true patriotic spirit we welcomed them. 1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0WgLkCinXM
How could any of us deny them such a simple wish1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtDqv1Snh1W
on such a lovely humid sticky yukky night?1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs5h1Soq7TB
Then some of the babies got scared of their glowy eyestalks, and started crying, 1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX74yNGgoYj
so the aliens got moved to a cordoned section1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXoPcNGukXL
which was for the good of everyone. 1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf1ZtUILxBr
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, 1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9yLWNwzMM1
the shadow, 1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQAue0mHvs1
in the chaos, 1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7IN4Bgmacw
so I sat next to a little old lady1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Zn36W67ay
and her grandson, and the evening got a hell of a lot weirder. 1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKrzSR7qWK3
It did get more interesting, too, and1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUTDxvaDKZ2
secretly, I thought it was probably a good thing 1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ907xgyEvLM
that the shadow had gotten left behind.1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPZ507D56nh
The little old lady then introduced herself as Connie, 1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV9NgOl5OL1
which may have been short for something else,1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2tbdJ0FCKe
and her grandson as Other Demons1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNjGT05if6l
(which I thought was not very subtle).
Because it turns out that they were demons,1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHkvlYipzz3
I could tell by the way their forked tail lashed in the long grass,1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ40rFYHI7pD
shifty eyes all yellow aglow, fogged up by some metaphors for misery,1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpcG02rUkfT
or something.1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡldauFePni2
I certainly hadn’t been expecting THAT tonight, anyway,1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHAtbVuqqQ9
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.1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2uXPSLw5yJ
If you ever meet a demon, be nice. 1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKQpfv5irHV
It had seemed random at the time.
I decided to have a little conversation,1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqtuM6idSnn
you know, get to know them a bit.1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRihyRVhqIQ
With a soundtrack of crackling thunder-like booms 1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrB2QxRwzBg
and sparks of ether raining down in the night sky,1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyJQdpllx6c
I realised that actually, they maybe weren’t all that bad. 1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkGiOmagckK
They were eccentric, but good hearted, probably.1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXBXeP8tsla
You’re welcome to come around sometime,1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiJMzlQMGvB
I said, at 84 Osborne street. 1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUNFzwHs8kl
I channelled some literature; don’t bother knocking, 1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXR1vAfXXTo
and they smiled, I think, a frowny smile, 1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWWLAd3iSbF
and went back to their home, 1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1N2qlGbePi
flapping away into the clouds on black leathery wings 1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOVLH7HBovT
which reminded me of liquorice.
Later I found out that they’d been on their way1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡclX5WfD1ol
to feast on some lonely children1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFBo0cFUSE8
but had gotten sidetracked by fireworks,1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD3qrN2bA80
as you do.
The fireworks had ended already1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQmdjpSLfUH
by the time I made my way back to the sleigh I’d parked 1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPt9tdmsa5E
between a battered Toyota 1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCHxAvodbwS
and a hulking four wheel drive.1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxzyGOuPM1i
My eight kangaroos pulled me all the way back,1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCuYXcgb5uL
up and down office buildings,1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJuz2uu6PKn
through the desert,1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡALq0Uj6X24
around and around a roundabout (we got caught in the whirl)1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUbr41u5yLg
across a river, 1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcuMEL79yQk
over the milky way,
and then we pulled up on the lawn 1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZbSjwmqn5J
of my suburban house.1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHi0MCfLN87
Walking inside, I flopped face down, doll-like,1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhYmO7oKLCu
and fell asleep on an old white mattress1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIpLwAyDSrO
under a fading southern cross.1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1eP4uVBM9L
Happy Australia Day1023Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2SplhMOgHU
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