I took a shadow out on a date last night. 1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3rar1HQvpR
We looked at each other with mutual understanding, 1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡssXiA5r2p6
and on a picnic blanket nestled down to watch the fireworks.1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGEq56DcVuV
The sun’s stain oozed around the edge of the horizon,1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXsRPyV6sGA
and suddenly my date was nothing more than some 1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxIfRp59T3p
blurry silhouette1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYxNE5SCmaH
like those weird purple-green blotches you see 1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVwjvxhUIR0
after staring at a bright light.1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡClYmZk0ock
Cold? I asked, but there was no answer, 1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9noz13a8u1
and it hadn’t been a question anyway,1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3h5tXCgiTi
but my date couldn’t care less about whether or not I wanted a blanket.1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqAdf5ECv4Y
He was cold and unfeeling and barely there, 1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWf8kJUr4Kp
blotchy green and purple,1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaqQse9aCcs
fading every few seconds into the scenery, 1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHRdxgGYe9O
which wasn’t pleasant either, mainly rubbish and1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHQa5gaKnKg
dead bushes.
The fireworks started, only to be interrupted halfway through by1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgVc8QFRGZ6
an Alien Invasion. It turned out okay though. 1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqqW4efE9E6
Their spinning starcrafts had been driving past,1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfgms7dALnk
and they had only wanted to see the fireworks,1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIwX4xOSeK1
so in true patriotic spirit we welcomed them. 1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNvTT1aj5Ek
How could any of us deny them such a simple wish1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaP2Jc6H2Ub
on such a lovely humid sticky yukky night?1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTqV3LuVoEU
Then some of the babies got scared of their glowy eyestalks, and started crying, 1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXyczUYyUwR
so the aliens got moved to a cordoned section1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTsDqmj7F3H
which was for the good of everyone. 1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGDXL6Hj4oj
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, 1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm4R6roAdKb
the shadow, 1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC6CTMBgPGR
in the chaos, 1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkGzVYxSlbj
so I sat next to a little old lady1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsrEMGv6Y8G
and her grandson, and the evening got a hell of a lot weirder. 1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhx1yECCGqV
It did get more interesting, too, and1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCssODq4D92
secretly, I thought it was probably a good thing 1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJRTQZPyx6X
that the shadow had gotten left behind.1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡShTC5GUygk
The little old lady then introduced herself as Connie, 1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4SpevVsZu8
which may have been short for something else,1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGoZvr7Nf66
and her grandson as Other Demons1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡprRFt27xqp
(which I thought was not very subtle).
Because it turns out that they were demons,1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtl3zLnj7rH
I could tell by the way their forked tail lashed in the long grass,1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHtu4S6tAlP
shifty eyes all yellow aglow, fogged up by some metaphors for misery,1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIpETq1igYt
or something.1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqYpWv6jIDQ
I certainly hadn’t been expecting THAT tonight, anyway,1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9D9TCiInT7
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.1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRdXukBxNLi
If you ever meet a demon, be nice. 1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRvGl6Xl9kx
It had seemed random at the time.
I decided to have a little conversation,1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcsp0HCkLhz
you know, get to know them a bit.1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5T1lk19jAS
With a soundtrack of crackling thunder-like booms 1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2qQt4ZRZBu
and sparks of ether raining down in the night sky,1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6DBQBCDHe9
I realised that actually, they maybe weren’t all that bad. 1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrPRpzXUzsS
They were eccentric, but good hearted, probably.1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ72cnF0ayZv
You’re welcome to come around sometime,1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkiU0cwHgWc
I said, at 84 Osborne street. 1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOuWY9nkE4s
I channelled some literature; don’t bother knocking, 1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLUMkhM74D6
and they smiled, I think, a frowny smile, 1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrfgq2erxbD
and went back to their home, 1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEuTX8CkV8R
flapping away into the clouds on black leathery wings 1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWZqLtdkjZi
which reminded me of liquorice.
Later I found out that they’d been on their way1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkOpOl1jJ4X
to feast on some lonely children1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvM3E1CRDU5
but had gotten sidetracked by fireworks,1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO2c4EQC1cN
as you do.
The fireworks had ended already1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYyMdzNIqF8
by the time I made my way back to the sleigh I’d parked 1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVfhf4q9EGR
between a battered Toyota 1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLq9hyTwWhX
and a hulking four wheel drive.1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7waJUVkxr2
My eight kangaroos pulled me all the way back,1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9aOjG3wIeF
up and down office buildings,1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyOQwFTl8nG
through the desert,1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR0SBIJfeBa
around and around a roundabout (we got caught in the whirl)1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU4lpURRuQB
across a river, 1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj0uTauc0Xe
over the milky way,
and then we pulled up on the lawn 1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS6x34efWzv
of my suburban house.1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZsQp3ug64R
Walking inside, I flopped face down, doll-like,1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRBGO780osp
and fell asleep on an old white mattress1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ279L2AF91q
under a fading southern cross.1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP6w2I9Gd2g
Happy Australia Day1052Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRhgK4icwKR
and then Add to home screen.