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.

He slipped the photograph back into his pocket and patted the gun in the other one. Time to get it done.

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 smiled menacingly and snapped its thin long fingers and there was a blinding light. All is forgotten again