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 couldn't believe his eyes. After traveling the globe and back, this whole time she was here? At his hometown café?

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.

That was their child, the creature that they created. Of course all good things had to come to an end.