Twilight's Flash Fiction / Relatos cortos crepusculares

Time Timing to see things upside down, to see them face up, to never have ever seen them, to begin them again. Time to have time, to undo the road, to break molds and break times. Tiempo Tiempo para ver las cosas al revés, para verlas boca arriba, para des verlas, para empezarlas de nuevo. Tiempo para tener tiempo, para desandar lo andado, para romper moldes y para romper tiempos.

De buenos y malos (I) Y la noche se adueñó de la luz. Lucifer, sentado a la entrada de la gruta, esperaba ansioso la llegada de los asesinos. Nunca persiguió representar ese papel. Tampoco supo cómo llegó a fundirse con el personaje. Pero el caso es que allí estaba, cumpliendo escrupulosamente las órdenes del jefe. En algún momento de lucidez había pensado en renunciar, pero el mercado de trabajo estaba muy mal. Ensimismado en sus pensamientos, no se percató de la llegada de los condenados. Éstos, por otra parte tampoco hicieron mucho ruido. Eran miles, procedentes de las interminables guerras que se producían por doquier. Lucifer estaba convencido de la importancia de su misión. Pensaba en voz alta: -Si yo no existiera, la función de recibir y encarcelar a todos estos ¿quién la llevaría a cabo?, ¿quién los metería en el fuego para que no hicieran más daño? Los condenados, encadenados y cabizbajos, pasaban lentamente por delante de él. Al azar, le pidió a uno de ellos q...

Little lights Every afternoon, when I came home from work, I saw in a window in the face of a girl who, through the glass, looked out at the street. Her lost and sad gaze awakened in me the instinct to protect her and to offer her affection. So was day after day. Until after a few months, the eve of the Wise Menkings arrived. That day it occurred to me to disguise myself as a magician king and take her some presents. The little girl opened the door with difficulty. "Ho ho ho. I'm King Melchior and I've come to bring you the toys you asked for. As you see, I come bearing this sack full of toys for many children, but to look for your gifts I need to know your name." "My name is Luna. But I didn't ask for any toys." "Are your parents not here?" "I don't have parents." From inside the house someone called the girl. "Luna, who is it?" Luna looked at me with his sad eyes and told me: "She's m...

Punishment and Forgiveness Punishment forgave forgiveness and they became friends again. Before, forgiveness had punished punishment to forgive all punishments enemies of all forgivenesses. Now punishment and forgiveness live together in the hearts of all human beings. Castigo y perdón El castigo perdonó al perdón y volvieron a ser amigos. Antes, el perdón había castigado al castigo a perdonar a todos los castigos enemigos de todos los perdones. Ahora el castigo y el perdón viven juntos en los corazones de todos los seres humanos.

Tomorrow It'll be tomorrow. I've decided that tomorrow I'm going to reveal my secret. A secret that only you can understand without judging me and that affects you directly. You're the only woman in my life. That's why, after several medical consultations and being certain of the diagnosis and its deadly consequences, I couldn't believe what the doctor confessed to me, which happens to be the same doctor who treated you a few years ago. That the deadly disease I'm suffering from has been passed on to me by you. Note: AIDS has caused more than 35 million deaths. Mañana Será mañana. He decidido que mañana voy a desvelar mi secreto. Un secreto que solo tú puedes comprender sin juzgarme y que te afecta directamente. Tú eres la única mujer de mi vida. Por eso, después de varias consultas médicas y de tener la certeza del diagnóstico y de sus mortales consecuencias, no podía creer lo que me confesó el doctor, que casualmente es el mismo que te...

Pensando en ti cada día, treinta años se han marchado. Treinta más se marcharán y no habré sido capaz de decirte cuánto más mi alma te adoraría.

Pensar que no pienso, sentir que no siento, soñar que no sueño, ansiar que no tengo. Porque si no tengo, ni sueño, ni siento, ni pienso, todo mi universo cabe en el bolsillo de tu arrobamiento.

Cry ... and suddenly she started to cry on my shoulder. I would have sold my soul for having her in my arms in another time, and now, suddenly, all my images had disappeared. There was nothing The dry damp of her tears only inspired me a deep sense of grief. Llorar … y súbitamente se puso a llorar en mi hombro. Con lo que yo hubiera dado por tenerla entre mis brazos en otra época y, ahora, de repente, todas mis imágenes habían desaparecido. No había nada. La húmeda sequedad de sus lágrimas no me inspiraban sino una profunda sensación de pena.

Sunday It's Sunday and I'm looking forward to Monday. The road is full of traps. First of all, my boss has scolded me. I'm late for work. And on Sundays, a lot of customers come to the office. I have an essential position. I'm in charge of scaring the customers.  I'm one of the dinosaurs working at Jurassic Park. Domingo Es domingo y estoy deseando de llegar al lunes. El camino está lleno de trampas. Para empezar, mi jefa me ha recibido con una bronca. He llegado tarde a trabajar. Y los domingos vienen muchos clientes a la oficina. Yo tengo un puesto imprescindible. Me dedico a asustar a los clientes. Soy uno de los dinosaurios que trabaja en Jurassic Park.

A Christmas Tale For Childs These were the last days of 1899. A girl was leaning against the wall, tired. The snow was covering his scarce clothes, and his little trembling hand stretched asking for an alms. A horse carriage stopped in front of her. The coachman hurried to open the door, and an old man, with some difficulty, descended from the carriage.   “Hello little girl.” “Sir...” “I am coming to get you.” “Why?” “It's Christmas Eve and I want you to come to dinner with my family.” A smile was drawn on the girl's face. The old man took her by the hand and helped her into the carriage. When they reached the palace, a maiden escorted her to a large room. After bathing her in hot water, she helped her put on a beautiful pink dress that was on a large bed. That Christmas Eve was very special. The next day, the girl told the old man: “I must go. Thank you very much for your kindness. You are a wonderful family.” And the old man answered her: “I have a s...

Nap Surprise me. Play with me before you take a nap. That nap that allows you to open a hole in the real world and reach the shore of the immeasurable. But first, let's play those games of ours that start at the edge of the bed, and continue on Pakistan's soft rug. And always, when you return from your nap trip, I look forward to the descriptions you make of the places you visit. The intensity of your gaze when, hypnotized, I dedicate all my attention to you, makes me lose the sense of what surrounds me. Finally, and after going through the endless corridors of your mind, your gods and your exotic places, I caress your face again and make an offering to the god of the gods for allowing me to have you. Siesta Sorpréndeme. Juega conmigo antes de dormir la siesta. Esa siesta que te permite abrir un agujero en el mundo real y alcanzar la orilla de lo inconmensurable. Pero antes, juguemos a esos juegos nuestros que comienzan en la orilla de la cama, y q...

Solmium In a grotto in the Himalayas, under a small slab, I hid the secret that will allow you to live forever. You must go there alone, and when you enter the grotto remember that you have to pronounce the sacred words.... My immortal nature comes from the stars. Through thousands of eons I have come to understand the secrets of the multiverses. Get up and make the secret yours! Spread this truth to all those who want to hear it, and claim the right to immortality that this universe offers you! Solmium guessed a deep sadness in Alomn's eyes. Both knew that Alomn had lost many of his relatives in the Himalayas. Solmium could be everywhere at the same time and visit the past and the future at will. "You must return to the Himalayas. I'm there now, too." "It is very difficult to revisit the places where I lost my family." Solmium En una gruta de los Himalayas, bajo una pequeña losa, oculté el secreto que te permitirá vivir etern...

Despiértame Despiértame si me duermo, no quiero que mi alma me culpe luego de perderse lo que tu alma le dice, lo que tu alma siente. Wake Me Up Wake me up if I fall asleep, I don't want my soul could blame to me after her get lost what your soul tells her, what your soul feels.

Cockroaches He slipped into the white sheets envelope with his brain full of cockroaches, toads and snakes. It was the consequence of the bad life he led. However, as he entered the envelope he slipped gently into a slow, warm and amiably sonorous universe until he fell asleep. It was the place with no place, it was time without time. The cockroaches turned into chrysalis and then into luminous butterflies of infinite colors. The toads in fabulous beings that gave him self-confidence, and the snakes turned into blue dragons, capable of taking him to the furthest away from the galaxy in the blink of an eye. Sometimes, throughout the day, when someone tried to inoculate cockroaches into his brain, he would remember that state and try to explain why it happened, so that he could experience it during the vigil. He never found out. What he observed some time later was that this state began to manifest itself during the hours of twilight shyly, and grew and grew until it occupied all...

The ring I'd never been able to go down to the basement alone. I was afraid of it. I had just turned nine years old when, on a cold, rainy and sad winter morning, I was awakened by strange noises coming from the basement. I was home alone. From bed, I concentrated as hard as I could to identify them. I've never heard anything like it. Then, over the years, I could try to describe them as if someone with their fingernails or the claws of an animal would be scratching a door. That strange experience lasted only a few minutes. I didn't leave the bedroom until my father came home at noon. My mother had died a year earlier. As he known I was fearful, I didn't tell him anything about what had happened to me, but from that day on I tried not to stay home alone. Forty years have passed and today I return to my parents' house, which I inherited from my recently deceased father. I have left the country where I have been living for many years and I intend to live i...

Drops  Among the millions of raindrops of that day, a drop of blood crashed into the ground. And then came others and others, until dyeing the wet and defenceless sand with crimson red. Millions of frightened eyes gazed at the scene, helpless. Drops of rain and hot blood, fighting between them to conquer space and time. Bullfighter's and bull's blood, together, like sisters. Death in the  plaza filled of water. Water and blood, blood and water. Gotas Entre los millones de gotas de lluvia de aquel día, una gota de sangre se estrelló contra el suelo. Y luego vinieron otras y otras, hasta teñir de rojo carmesí la mojada e indefensa arena. Millones de ojos asustados contemplaban la escena, impotentes. Gotas de lluvia y sangre caliente, luchando por arrebatarse el espacio y el tiempo. Sangre de torero y de toro, juntas, hermanas. Muerte en la plaza de agua. Agua y sangre, sangre y agua.

I already know you have died I know you have died because you visited my dreams tonight. Because you told me so yourself. You also told me you're okay. I already know that you are well because that change of state is very familiar to me, since, I don't know how, I have developed the ability not to forget my previous existences. The truly miraculous thing is that we are eternal, and we eternally change our existences to other worlds, but we unfailingly return, as in a wheel and in certain periods of time, to this place of this universe. The passage through each world has its own memory, and to be able to penetrate into all those memories and keep them present at all times is our task. In this way we will be able to avoid mistakes of the past. Ya sé que has muerto Sé que has muerto porque esta noche has visitado mis sueños. Porque tú misma me lo has dicho. También me has dicho que estás bien. Yo ya sé que estás bien porque ese cambio de estado me resulta muy ...

Siempre que empiezo a empezarte nunca llego a terminarte. Terminarte es imposible, aunque para terminarte tuviera yo que empezarte haciendo lo inconcebible.

Shades Human beings, weightless shades, lightweight specters that during the brief moment of their existence dream that they are immortal. Sombras Seres humanos, ingrávidas sombras, livianos espectros que durante un instante del Universo sueñan que son inmortales.

Tobacco He parked the wheelchair to go buy some tobacco and when he came back he had a fine for improper parking. Tabaco Aparcó la silla de ruedas para ir a comprar tabaco y cuando volvió tenía una multa por estacionamiento indebido.

You I called you and you turned around. You were another, but you ended up being you. Tú Te llamé y te diste la vuelta. Eras otra, pero acabaste siendo tú.

Reality Reality does not exist. You build and destroy it all the time. Reality is what you want it to be. Realidad  La realidad no existe. La construyes y la destruyes cada instante. La realidad es lo que tú quieres que sea.

Dreams She fell asleep with her hand on my arm. In this way she managed to keep away the fear she felt when imagined that our encounter could be the last one. Sueños Se durmió con su mano sobre mi brazo. Así conseguía alejar de su alma el miedo de que nuestro encuentro fuera el último.

The runes During the last days of the Christmas of the year in which the nineteenth century ended, the expedition led by Robert Ustinov managed to reach the North Pole. Robert Ustinov, had consumed his last energies to get the goal before the end of the year, and had instructed to his friends to install the tents a few hundred meters from the geographic North Pole. Once the members of the group were accommodated and following an irrational impulse, he tried with a torch to explore the surroundings. In the distance he saw an almost human figure. The stars of the polar night illuminated the loneliness of a snowman. He was approaching to the snowman, advancing with difficulty, walking through the frozen ground and when he was near of it, he discovered a kind of wooden scaffold on which there were runic letters. At that time he cursed he did not learned their meaning before. But he did not give time to anything else. The ground gave way and fell to the void with the ...

Un pequeño favor Asómate a mis ojos y entra por mis oídos. Acurrúcate en mi alma y dime que me quieres. Es el pequeño favor que te pido cuando mis luces se apaguen. A small favor Look into my eyes and enter through my ears. Snuggle yourself up in my soul and whisper yourself to me that you love me. It's the little favor I ask you when my lights go out.

Kisses The kisses you did not give me wander orphans for your indecisive lips, waiting for the moment to travel from your soul to mine. Besos Los besos que no me diste vagan huérfanos por tus indecisos labios, esperando el momento para viajar de tu alma a la mía.

Frío Cuando nació, hacía tanto frío fuera que volvió al lugar en el que estaba y se acomodó para no salir nunca más. Cold When he was born, it was so cold outside that he returned to the place where he was and settled down to never leave it again.

La noche de los cruzados. El emir Bishr preside el acto. Se trata de la conmemoración de un suceso histórico que tuvo lugar en Tierra Santa. Salima, visiblemente alterada, sube a la tribuna para acompañar a su padre en el acto. Se celebra la noche en la que los cruzados atacaron las tiendas de campaña del ejército musulmán que rodeaba la ciudad de Jerusalén. A pesar de sufrir un ataque por sorpresa, en una reacción inesperada, las huestes del emir consiguieron obligar a huir a los atacantes. Situada la tribuna en la gran llanura de la Luna, los muyahidines, o soldados de la fe extienden su formación hasta el límite del horizonte. En el momento culminante de la celebración, un muyahidín sobre un caballo al galope se dirige a la tribuna. El soldado se abalanza sobre el emir y blandiendo su alfanje se dispone a acabar con su vida. Más rápido que el rayo, una espada cristiana se interpone en la trayectoria del arma del asesino y al mismo tiempo una daga divide en dos su corazón...

El buzo En la noche de San Juan se iba a llevar a cabo una importante operación en las azules aguas de la Guayana Francesa. Las luces de cientos de hogueras en la playa se reflejaban en un bote anclado cerca de la orilla, a bordo del cual un buzo estaba preparando su traje de buceo. Es Carlos de Ayanz, descendiente directo de Jerónimo de Ayanz, el ingeniero navarro que diseñó un traje de buzo en 1606, el que va a tratar de inspeccionar los restos de una nave del siglo XVI cerca de la costa. Una nave en la que pereció su antecesor. Había hecho miles de inmersiones. Tenía miles de experiencias. Sin embargo, esta vez era distinto. Por alguna razón, era la primera vez que experimentaba cierto temor al pensar en las profundidades marinas. Llegado el momento, Carlos de Ayanz, enfundado en su traje de buzo, empezó a descender despacio hacia el lugar en el que se encontraba la nave. Animales marinos se acercaban para tratar de advertirle de algo. Él, absorto en sus pensamientos, ...