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.

And he became involuntarily angry, as if he had lived this moment before. He thought that this moment was the last time he would see his brother where he used to leave him.

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 feeling of fear that came, that was what it was like to be drowned in silence amidst the screams. He grabbed a sign on the ground and ran for his life to the creature. Just as he hit the creature, he received a slap on the back of the neck. Suddenly he found himself looking..