I took a shadow out on a date last night. 922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCN8KNf9Lzd
We looked at each other with mutual understanding, 922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHPkaded63s
and on a picnic blanket nestled down to watch the fireworks.922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXv7r1rSVqO
The sun’s stain oozed around the edge of the horizon,922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvM4WDxT7we
and suddenly my date was nothing more than some 922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqZcZTocyKS
blurry silhouette922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcImSpUfOaY
like those weird purple-green blotches you see 922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJD9k0TTgHf
after staring at a bright light.922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3zvgX8rr9O
Cold? I asked, but there was no answer, 922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBORGgBbRpt
and it hadn’t been a question anyway,922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcOOhaS7SNW
but my date couldn’t care less about whether or not I wanted a blanket.922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWdvUmY3DFx
He was cold and unfeeling and barely there, 922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuKcbcfmcyn
blotchy green and purple,922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSCPl9rCZxO
fading every few seconds into the scenery, 922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaHdhNmV6uV
which wasn’t pleasant either, mainly rubbish and922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXYPUbQsMZf
dead bushes.
The fireworks started, only to be interrupted halfway through by922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNbs0O1TeWV
an Alien Invasion. It turned out okay though. 922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYe04tQ0spJ
Their spinning starcrafts had been driving past,922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkoOpQgU4UI
and they had only wanted to see the fireworks,922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwV0aWGZvB0
so in true patriotic spirit we welcomed them. 922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW2CfHhQPlv
How could any of us deny them such a simple wish922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUWsYW4zQNR
on such a lovely humid sticky yukky night?922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡElfW8ndfBK
Then some of the babies got scared of their glowy eyestalks, and started crying, 922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Pamu3M9j4
so the aliens got moved to a cordoned section922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8mYeJH2ym5
which was for the good of everyone. 922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrMLRZqSdWm
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, 922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXkB2oOj3k5
the shadow, 922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF0zHbuuPqv
in the chaos, 922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRYqxdAmLQv
so I sat next to a little old lady922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU4mlN38kvp
and her grandson, and the evening got a hell of a lot weirder. 922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxGmAJaetCZ
It did get more interesting, too, and922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6vNjgffG9M
secretly, I thought it was probably a good thing 922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYDP8525gD8
that the shadow had gotten left behind.922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqCgoKvUbd6
The little old lady then introduced herself as Connie, 922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGpYOY72Hx9
which may have been short for something else,922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqTq5N4jEBl
and her grandson as Other Demons922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCJPzTXqMXK
(which I thought was not very subtle).
Because it turns out that they were demons,922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOSFKBD0Gwv
I could tell by the way their forked tail lashed in the long grass,922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNNuja4ZGL3
shifty eyes all yellow aglow, fogged up by some metaphors for misery,922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5G7XQKbVQu
or something.922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5TuJff7ATJ
I certainly hadn’t been expecting THAT tonight, anyway,922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Hf3HJNzrP
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.922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtSeelvd1ND
If you ever meet a demon, be nice. 922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Ygu40lGwU
It had seemed random at the time.
I decided to have a little conversation,922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡATruTEgBbL
you know, get to know them a bit.922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUrF2TRLT2i
With a soundtrack of crackling thunder-like booms 922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm7xSp1o5uQ
and sparks of ether raining down in the night sky,922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKeW682IHML
I realised that actually, they maybe weren’t all that bad. 922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy0pXox8YFY
They were eccentric, but good hearted, probably.922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡunLiOruTnQ
You’re welcome to come around sometime,922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBFACLnnEg7
I said, at 84 Osborne street. 922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2JHAe8GGar
I channelled some literature; don’t bother knocking, 922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4zV2Il9gRu
and they smiled, I think, a frowny smile, 922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGzasDF7kNy
and went back to their home, 922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxtl9YcoU0C
flapping away into the clouds on black leathery wings 922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhqgLit72as
which reminded me of liquorice.
Later I found out that they’d been on their way922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmzMrkkVRWm
to feast on some lonely children922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG8Jxrv2w86
but had gotten sidetracked by fireworks,922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmDWFumTZOz
as you do.
The fireworks had ended already922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoxVGD06TRu
by the time I made my way back to the sleigh I’d parked 922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqh1mdWSRBi
between a battered Toyota 922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLmHNThq1Rz
and a hulking four wheel drive.922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJSq9yFXTDl
My eight kangaroos pulled me all the way back,922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT6kGXQAwWc
up and down office buildings,922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ37FDRH90Sr
through the desert,922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNOZb2roKZp
around and around a roundabout (we got caught in the whirl)922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0ZPW1dYuzo
across a river, 922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjF9VlEhRR0
over the milky way,
and then we pulled up on the lawn 922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNAyHZIIiRD
of my suburban house.922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡahjNX7Qqez
Walking inside, I flopped face down, doll-like,922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRBo3exifEZ
and fell asleep on an old white mattress922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKnVZZfDMaF
under a fading southern cross.922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNtD1LShJF8
Happy Australia Day922Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaXL01ImCDO
