Night Owls

Jerry glanced down at the photograph in his hand, then back up again at the woman sitting alone at the back of the cafe.

She didn’t look up, focused intently on the morning newspaper. She was close to his age and he thought perhaps they had met before but he could t think of where or when.

All at once a blinding light coursed through the space. Jerry and the woman froze. And then a creature appeared, seemingly from the air itself.

The woman screamed. Without hesitation, Jerry leaped onto the back of the beast and wrestled it to the ground.