Twilight's Flash Fiction / Relatos cortos crepusculares

Waterfalls Thomas went round and round in bed. The next day his parents would take him to see the falls, and he was so excited that he couldn't sleep. He had always thought of the cataracts as if they were a living thing. They arrived very early. When he saw the water fall from that height he was moved, it was an impressive spectacle, impossible to imagine. That day, the waterfalls were scrambled and needed to swallow someone. "Where will so much water come from?", he wondered at the same time as he was invaded by a sense of immensity. The deafening noise and the force of the water forming an enigmatic body. The waterfalls had already chosen their victim. Thomas dangerously approached a fence, and it gave way. In an instant he fell into the void. In the background, the rocks seemed happy to receive him. The sound of the water did not let his cries of despair be heard, and as he fell, his thoughts went to his parents. At the same time he realized that the ...

Evolution On the way to Jerusalem a warrior came upon a monk. After waging countless battles and traveling the world a hundred times, the defeated warrior asked the monk to reveal to him the secret of life. And the monk said to him: "In the waking state there is a place in the mind from which one can see everything in peace. From this place, events and feelings are devoid of negative thoughts or feelings. When you find this place within you, your life will change." Evolución En el camino hacia Jerusalén un guerrero se cruzó en el camino con un monje. Después de librar innumerables batallas y recorrer cien veces el mundo, el guerrero derrotado le pidió al monje que le revelara el secreto de la vida. Y el monje le dijo: -En el estado de vigilia hay un lugar en la mente desde el que se puede ver todo en paz. Desde este lugar, los acontecimientos y los sentimientos están desprovistos de pensamientos o sentimientos negativos. Cuando encuentres e...

Links And he closed his eyes to this world, perhaps unknowingly, to open them in another place and at another time. Perhaps to be eternal. Lazos Y cerró los ojos a este mundo, quizás, sin saberlo, para abrirlos en otro lugar y en otro tiempo. Quizás para ser eterno.

Gaia's Revenge Tonight, in my dreams, I thought I heard the agonizing voice of the planet. The most frightening thing was to discover the plans it has carried out to end the human race. In the same way that a genetic mutation in primates gave rise to what we are now, a genetic mutation has already occurred in insects, providing them with intelligence far superior to ours. That is Gaia's plan. It is not strange, given our behavior with the planet, that it want to get rid of us, dictating the cruel destiny of our death having the insects as executioners.  It is necessary to think about how we are going to face them, because from one moment to the next they will begin to do their macabre work! La venganza de Gaia Esta noche, en sueños, me ha parecido oír la voz agonizante del planeta. Lo más aterrador fue descubrir los planes que ha llevado a cabo para terminar con la raza humana. De la misma forma que una mutación genética en los primates dio lugar a lo q...

Her voice Where is the voice that moves me, where is the voice that comforts me? I am lost without it. How can I continue? Melody that drew the sensations and emotions of each moment. Sounds, multicoloured nuances of instants that remain in the memory. Her voice. Su voz ¿Dónde está la voz que me emociona, dónde la voz que me consuela? Perdido estoy sin ella. ¿Cómo podré continuar? Melodía que dibujaba las sensaciones y las emociones de cada momento. Sonidos, matices multicolores de instantes que perduran en la memoria. Su voz.

Deliriums Emotions stick to objects that remind us of the moments in which we love, in those moments, joys are sheltered in the interstices of the soul. And, at the end, when we say goodbye to everything, the eternally fleeting instants go away leaving us alone. Desvaríos Las emociones se pegan a los objetos que nos recuerdan los momentos en los que amamos, en esos momentos, las alegrías se cobijan en los intersticios del alma. Y al final, cuando nos despedimos de todo, los instantes eternamente fugaces nos dicen adiós.

The Three Wise Men It is the midnight of the day of The Wise Men. I anxiously await the moment when the Three Wise Men descend through the chimney. Although I don't understand how they are going to lower the bicycle that I have asked them for. I have been trying to find a solution to the problem for several days. Maybe they dismantle it, lower the pieces and then assemble it, but even so, I think that the wheels can't fit through the chimney. Of course, but since they are Magicians, they can do whatever they want. I would need to borrow their magic to help my parents. They're always fighting, saying they want a divorce. I get scared and start crying, but in those moments it's as if they don't see that I'm there. There are other worse moments, when they fight and hurt themselves. That's why, apart from toys, I'd like them to be able to do some magic so that my parents love each other like they used to. That would be the best gift from the Wise ...

Memories When I went to live on Earth, I was surprised that only one star illuminated its firmament. I think that was the first lasting impression that remained in my mind for several days. I am from the planet Ast, which rotates following an orbit   with eight-shape around two stars and has a variable rotational motion on its axis. That makes the cycles of light and darkness not resemble those of Earth. When my ancestors went to colonize it, they found deserts and fertile zones, there was no trace of animal life. There were some types of trees and bushes. A long time has passed since then. Anyway, there must had been one or several advanced civilizations, because in the excavations that were carried out shortly after arriving on the planet, vestiges of constructions were found as well as skeletons of animals that by their morphology seemed to have been able to walk upright. Recuerdos Cuando fui a vivir a la Tierra, me sorprendió que solo una estrella iluminara...

The thousand wives The cold of winter came and King Solomon told his wives: It is necessary to arrange everything so that the cold does not penetrate your rooms. A thousand rooms, a thousand beds, a thousand chimneys. A thousand nocturnal visits. A thousand whims. Three thousand years later, a thousand descendants of the King, in a program of advanced genetics intend to bring him back to life. The secret lies in the collaboration of the thousand descendants so that each one contributes a part of the genetic composition necessary to configure the complete map. Through a process of replication and integration it is possible to breathe life into the cells formed from the genetic information of all the descendants. It is as if Solomon knew that he had to beget at least a thousand children to ensure his passport to eternity. And so it has happened. Solomon has awakened from a dream of more than three thousand years and will help us to understand the past and the future. ...

The stranger Apparently, he came from distant lands and settled in the valley. Of a sullen character, he had hardly any contact with the neighbours of the small village. He had installed weird artifacts on the roof of his house, which aroused the suspicion and curiosity of those who lived in the surrounding area. So much so that they decided to discover what he was doing, and thus, when they knew that he would be absent for several days, they forced the door of his house and entered. At first glance there was nothing unusual about the rooms on the ground floor, except for some references to India, such as posters, paintings and statues of Buddha distributed throughout the living room furniture. However, they decided no longer inspect the house,   but the basement was yet to be seen. As they came down, a special, intense smell, similar to the scent of the Incan mattiola surprised them. Once downstairs, and after turning on the light, they saw several images coming from ...

The edge of the universe The pursed on the edge of the universe is full of eternal beings, who see to it that it does not fall out into nothingness. In its expansion, the edge of the universe stretches and nothingness shrinks. And the eternal beings multiply in order to purse the new diameter of the universe. The nothing is not worring about that. It is a fun, dense nothing that exists because the universe exists. One cannot live without the other. When a cosmonaut got travelling to the edge of the universe, he wanted to know from when eternal beings controlled their limits, and he asked one of them. Neighboring eternal beings who wanted to hear the conversation swirled around the cosmonaut and inadvertently created an island in nothingness with the cosmonaut in the center. Without knowing it they began to create a small universe that from that moment began to expand... El filo del universo El fruncido del filo del universo está plagado de seres eternos, que vela...

Photons A photon saw a particle passing by at full speed, and I asked a neighboring photon: “What is that?” The neighboring photon replied: “It turns out that there are blind particles, which they don't need to see, so they can go faster than us. They have the virtues of experiencing travels through the universe in an instant, and they do not collide with others because they can detect gravity microwaves. And they don't have time to talk to anyone, they just run.” “So what about Max Planck and Albert Einstein?” “Well, their theories are part of a more general theory...” Fotones     Un fotón vió como pasaba una partícula a toda velocidad, y le pregunto a un fotón vecino: -¿Qué es eso? El fotón vecino le contestó: -Resulta que hay partículas ciegas, que no necesitan ver, así que pueden ir más rápido que nosotros. Tienen las virtudes de experimentar viajes a través del universo en un instante, y no colisionan con otras porque pueden detectar m...

Temper 2 Once home, she took time to think about her next movements. The pregnancy was still going on, and she had been informed that she would give birth thirty days after insemination. And, according to the agreement, she should be in Xona for childbirth. There was no way he was going to leave her children on that strange planet, with those beings of greasy and repulsive skin. So she was having to work out a plan to achieve his ends. The food shipments were reaching the huge hangars installed in what were the deserts of most of the planet. Spacecrafts, with the size of big cities, were staying some meters over the ground, unloading the big bales with all kinds of products, and then disappeared through the cloudy skies. Carácter 2 Una vez en casa, dedicó tiempo a pensar en sus próximos movimientos. El embarazo seguía su curso, y le habían informado que daría a luz a los treinta días terrestres desde la inseminación. Y, según el acuerdo, debería estar en Xona p...

Temper 1 She was in a difficult situation. Food in exchange for a drastic turn in his life. Without spending a second meditating on it, she accepted the commitment.   With a gesture from the Supreme, two guardians approached and led her into a dimly lit amber room. After a few moments, two people half humans half alien came in and made her lie down on a stretcher. A blue gas penetrated through his nose and a heavy sleep made him close his eyes. When he woke up, he watched with astonishment the excessive increase of his belly. But at the same time, when she sat up, she felt lighter, lighter than ever. He did not notice the weight of the creature or creatures she carried in her womb. He found that it had only been a few hours since he arrived in Xona, and he was perfectly well, looking forward to returning home. Carácter 1 Estaba en una difícil situación. Los alimentos a cambio de un drástico giro en su vida. Sin dedicar un segundo a meditarlo, aceptó el ...

Temper That winter was very hard. The great snow dunes of the Arctic had destroyed all the crops despite having protected them very carefully. In addition, on Mars, in the area where the company had invested a great deal of money, a meteorite had fallen and destroyed hundreds of hectares of crops. The feeding of many people depended on those crops, as well as the elaboration of medicines, some of which were essential for patients of Rowland's diseases, -the name of the first man to set foot on Mars. On his return he suffered a series of disorders which eventually led to his death. She always showed determination in the face of problems. She was a woman of great temper, and this time she was not going to give up either. There was the remote possibility of finding reserves in Xona, a planet of the so-called neighboring stars, populated by a hybrid race, the Esgas, crossing of humans and extraterrestrials, with whom there was no relationship whatsoever. She prepared her s...

Together And then I discovered that when you spill yourself on the earth, I will spill with you, and together we will reach the clear and transparent depths where the eternal begin exists. Juntos Y entonces descubrí que cuando te derrames en la tierra, me derramaré contigo, y juntos llegaremos a las profundidades claras y transparentes donde existe el eterno comienzo.

Will to live All his relatives had died, and he barely had the strength to survive. He wandered from place to place, lost. Someone told him about a remote region where souls are transformed. And he went in search of it. Crossing the river he reached the shores of the immense sea. When he arrived he realized that what had transformed him had been the journey, because the region of wonders was nothing but an excuse to start the movement, to get on the road. To live, to dress each day with the strength of a titan and to undress at night from the wounds suffered in the thousand battles. The little fish sailed upstream again to return home, to a house where he would never again feel loneliness. Ganas de vivir Habían muerto todos sus familiares, y apenas le quedaban fuerzas para sobrevivir. Deambulaba de un sitio para otro, perdido. Alguien le habló de una región remota en la que se transforman las almas. Y fue en su busca. Surcando el río alcanzó las orillas d...