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.

Jerry wasn't sure if this woman was the woman in the photograph because her face was obscured by the newspaper she held. He took another bite of his BLT and felt the crust of the bread scrape the roof of his mouth in a well-known and terrible way.

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 creature cut off the woman's head and then disappeared just as it had arrived, in a blinding flash of light. The restaurant erupted in screams of horror as blood shot from the decapitated corpse, which moments before was engaged in sipping it's coffee.