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.

Nope. Wasn't her. He would have to continue his search elsewhere. But where? All of the clues he had found so far led to this cafe and she very definitely was not here. Jerry began to doubt his detective skills when a voice called across the cafe, "You missed her Jerry."

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.

Jerry knew in an instant the creature was the cryptid he had been chasing since leaving West Virginia. He had to act quickly before it killed him, and wore his body like a Halloween costume. He pulled his sidearm and aimed and, anticlimactically, shot the beast in the head.