Twilight's Flash Fiction / Relatos cortos crepusculares

Blue It was a blue lost in the ocean. Intense blue, histrionic, that every day represented its role in front of the dawn. The dawns and the blues have been lost, and only the black of the deep space remains. Eons await a new awakening with cliffs cleft by the sun, roses sculpted in space and tones of infinite colors. Azul Era un azul perdido en el océano. Azul intenso, histriónico, que cada día representaba su papel frente al alba. Las albas y los azules se han perdido, y solo queda el negro del espacio profundo. Eones esperan un nuevo despertar con farallones hendidos por el sol, rosas esculpidas en el espacio y tonos de infinitos colores.

Kubernetes Kubernetes descended from his spacecraft and kissed Tamor's ground. He had travelled through space for centuries to return to his home, an ancient planet at the confines of the Milky Way. Scourged it by hurricane winds of chlorine and decimated by blue sulphur volcanoes, the negative gravity of some areas of the northern hemisphere was requiring to take precautions not to be thrown into outer space. However, in the southern hemisphere, the strong gravitational attraction prevented aircraft from taking off from its surface if they were not equipped with the resources to generate antigravity fields. At the equator, in the transition between the enormous force of gravity in the south and the antigravity field in the north, strange phenomena was being take place. Kubernetes approached his assistant and friend Planso, located behind him, and told him to order the spacecraft to lower the precious cargo that had been stored for so long in the solitary room of that struct...

Estrangement Sometimes I'm so different from myself that at those times I wouldn't want to be my friend. Desafección En ocasiones soy tan diferente a mi mismo que en esos momentos no me gustaría ser mi amigo.

The Deception of Light The light deceives us. In order to keep its secret it allies itself with all the tricks it can, it makes us believe that bodies move through space. Space without light is not space. It is solitude and inertia. All our mind games are based on the existence of light. All our conclusions are elaborated with the background of light. The astronauts who pretend to deduce how light behaves, to imagine it, have no choice but to use light as a 'medium' to see the environment, We are prisoners of light. El engaño de la luz La luz nos engaña. Para conservar su secreto se alía con todas las artimañas que puede. Nos hace creer que los cuerpos se mueven a través del espacio. El espacio sin luz no es espacio. Es soledad e inercia. Todos nuestros juegos mentales se fundamentan en la existencia de la luz. Todas nuestras conclusiones se elaboran con el trasfondo de la luz. Los astronautas que pretenden deducir cómo se comporta la luz, imaginarla, no tienen m...

The Flight of the Butterfly And reality began to manifest itself differently before my eyes. And I didn't know how to adapt to it. And that incapacity cost me my life, but before that it gave me the opportunity to touch things and to breathe to the people around me. The enormous transparent barrier that separated me from others gradually turned into drops of sand that fell to the ground and left me naked in front of others. And in the moments before my death, everything was in peace and everything was peace. And I walked slowly along the silk thread that led me to the light, and in the end I merged with the light, I was light. El vuelo de la mariposa Y la realidad empezó a manifestarse de otra manera ante mis ojos. Y yo no sabía cómo adaptarme a ella. Y esa incapacidad me costó la vida, pero antes me regaló la oportunidad de tocar las cosas y de respirar a las personas que me rodeaban. La descomunal barrera transparente que me separaba de los demás se fue transforma...

Two Little Houses He woke up in a wheat field. Naked. She got up, and the spikes stuck to her body to protect her. She could barely move. She stood up and saw what looked like a wooden construction. With great difficulty he walked towards that little house. The sun, warm and kind, caressed her skin, and her feet could feel the damp, soft earth. When she tried to check the distance to the little house, it seemed to her that it was further and further away. She turned around and noticed that in the opposite direction there was another little house just like the first one. She hesitated for a moment, but finally she decided to move on to the little house. But each time she looked to the house, she saw it further away. She turned again and was surprised to see that the house in the opposite direction was closer, much closer. It seemed that the floor was moving in the direction of the second house and away from the first. She dropped to the floor, closed her eyes and went back ...

The Mesh After the information provided by Benfold, Hutington got down to work. He had special traps formed by metal meshes that, activated by a spring moved by light, fell on its prey preventing them from escaping. Lilith had decided to find Benfold but did not know how. Then she remembered that she could make use of a special capacity by which, like a thermal-sound sensor, she could, by means of its orientation, perfectly locate who she was looking for. Then she knew that Benfold was in the animal facility, in one of the safest cages. What the little ones didn't know is that Huntington had set the traps to try and catch them. Lilith addressed the animalarium followed by her companions. They penetrated through a small opening in the wall, in the manner of a vent, and then the unpredictable occurred. Huntington's laughter sounded thunderous. He approached the wire mesh and found that one of the small beings had fallen into it. Lilith was trapped by the mesh. ...

The boat Swayed by the waves, the boat waits for its boatman. Eager to redraw foam and blue stelae under his loving guidance. But he doesn't arrive. She quietly counts the minutes and consoles herself thinking that sometimes it has happened. But today, she doesn't know why, something tells her it's different.  She doesn't know that she will never see her boatman again. La barca Mecida por las olas, la barca espera a su barquero. Ansiosa por volver a trazar estelas de espuma y azul bajo su amorosa guía. Pero no llega. Cuenta en silencio los minutos y   se consuela pensando que algunas veces ha ocurrido. Pero hoy, no sabe por qué, algo le dice que es distinto.  No sabe que nunca más volverá a ver a su barquero.

Lilith and Benfold But Benfold didn't reveal the whole truth to Huntington. Lilith had initiated a plan to return home, directly involving Benfold. What Huntington ignored was that Lilith and Benfold were old friends. Their friendship dated back to the time when Gorga had not been exploited by bird men. Returning to the facilities that Huntington had built with great effort, the lights, bright at certain times and dim at others, accompanied the beings of the animalarium. Thus, by means of a code inserted in the beams of light, they were programmed to perform certain actions or develop abilities such as speech or telepathy. When Huntington learned of the existence of small beings, he did not lose an instant to begin his search. He was a systematic man and began his inquiries through the garden. It did not occur to him that they could be hidden in the dog house, nor did he relate the escape of the dog with the presence of small beings. His intuition was telling him that th...

WF-98765, WF-98766 and inertial systems What I couldn't imagine was that I would be visited by WF-98766, another wavefront. After that night thinking about what WF-98765 had revealed to me, I couldn't help but remind the observers and try to guess what each of them imagined about what the others were experiencing, the other inertial observers, and why not, the wavefronts. How do we measure speed? We determine a point of origin, a point of destination, and the time it takes for the mobile object to get from the point of origin to the point of destination. Both points are fixed in space, the distance between them cannot vary. If this were not the case, the measurement of speed would be wrong. Michelson and Morley made measurements with an L-shaped system, one of whose arms had the direction of motion of the Earth around the Sun, and the other arm was perpendicular to the first. The measurement of the speed of light was identical along both arms. But our experimen...

Benfold Huntington entered the animal facility and hurried to the glass urn at one end of the huge room. He was pleased to see that Benfold was looking at him calmly. It was a toad of enormous dimensions. When Huntington opened the urn, the huge toad sticked out the tongue and caressed the Huntington's face. A yellow slime impregnated his skin and Huntington experienced a very pleasant sensation. He thanked that showing of love to Benfold and began telepathic communication as they used to do every night. Benfold told him that some strange beings, of small dimensions, had entered his property. They were harmless but had frightened the dog and then they were going to try to settle somewhere else inside his house. Benfond had a gift for seeing the future and knew what Tom's friends were going to do. Benfold Huntington entró en el animalario y se dirigió a toda prisa a la urna de cristal que ocupaba un extremo de la enorme sala. Con satisfacción pudo comprobar ...

Lilith and the Huntington Family After escaping from the box that those thieves had stolen, Tom's friends took refuge in a sort of wooden house, surprisingly appropriate to their size. The joy of being together in a safe place was short-lived. A Great Dane approached the little house dangerously, his little house. Lilith, in an attack of hysteria decided to face the enormous dog and came out of the darkness showing herself openly and shouting strange phrases that made the great dog flee. The dog's owner, Mr. Huntington, saw through the window that something was wrong with the dog, and rushed out, thinking that the dog had reacted to something or someone. He went directly to the animal facility, where he had managed to collect hundreds of batrachians, his greatest treasure. He wanted to protect them at all costs, because he had managed to communicate with them and they had revealed incredible secrets. As he walked through the garden, he thought he was seeing something m...

Night It is the witch's night And I feel you so close That we are burning Noche La noche bruja Y te siento tan cerca Que nos quemamos

Dawn and Twilight Because of you, from the dawn of every day my feelings are dyed with white tears, sweet, sonorous, full of sea. Each infinite twilight, comes to reveal that the shadows, equidistant from harmony and chaos, are the refuge of the sorrows that devour my soul to reach the dawn of the next day, when I find peace, your lap. Alba y crepúsculo Por ti, del alba de cada día se tiñen de lágrimas blancas mis sentimientos, dulces, sonoros, llenos de mar. Cada crepúsculo, infinito, viene a desvelar que las sombras, equidistantes de la armonía y del caos, son el refugio de las penas que devoran mi alma por llegar al alba del siguiente día, en el que encuentro la paz, tu regazo.

WF-98765 and Light I'm going to try to explain what happened to me a few days ago while walking in the park. I was wrapped up in my thoughts about relativity, and a basic experiment came to mind. Let's imagine two extraterrestrial observers traveling in their interstellar spaceships and moving relative to each other. The ships have dimensions of three hundred thousand kilometers and in their ends they have installed some electrical devices. These devices, located at the ends of the spaceships, are designed in such a way that when they touch the respective devices of the other ship, they emit wave fronts in all directions. One of the spectacles that light offers us is the contemplation of inertial systems. But light and matter are beings of a different nature. If it were not for light, we could only discover an inertial system when we hit it. But light, by illuminating objects, allows us to see them and to know their position. And that is the problem. Let's see it: ...

Tom and Lilith Ever since they started their adventure, there was a girl in the group who made Tom nervous. When he talked to her, he couldn't find the words to express himself, his pulse accelerated, and he couldn't think. He looked like a fool in front of her. Although they were always living in darkness, when he had the chance to see her, everything was transformed around him. Her big eyes to see in the dark, a tiny mouth, a perfect nose. The moments when he could see her were moments of sugar. But now, at an unimaginable distance from her, something told him that she was in danger, that he had to save her from some imminent danger. Tom y Lilith Desde que iniciaron su aventura, había una chica en el grupo que ponía nervioso a Tom. Cuando hablaba con ella, no encontraba las palabras para expresarse, el pulso se aceleraba, y no podía pensar. Quedaba como un tonto delante de ella. Aunque siempre vivían en la oscuridad, cuando tenía la ocasión de verla, todo se ...

Blue Stones The desire to have blue stones to compose the path of the stars. Pilgrims crossing the Milky Way, and you, you drawing the dawn sky to meet them. Blue stones and pilgrims are all you need to climb infinity. Piedras azules Ganas de tener piedras azules para componer el camino de las estrellas. Romeros cruzando la Vía Láctea, y tú, tú dibujando el cielo del alba para encontrarte con ellos. Piedras azules y romeros, son todo lo que necesitas para escalar el infinito.

Smile I was going down the subway stairs and someone disguised as a Joker offered me a card. I hesitated for a moment, but his wide smile convinced me and I took it. I began to read it and was struck by the first sentence: "I'm sorry I have to do this". I couldn't read anymore. A painful sting made me bring my hand to my abdomen, as I felt a thick, hot liquid slide between my fingers. I woke up in the operating room and something on the surgeon's face looked familiar. I had seen that smile before and it made me experience a strange sensation. It was him. I waited for him in the parking lot where he left his car and killed him. Days later, the postman brought me a certificate home and his smile had something... I had no choice but to murder him, because I was sure it had been him. Then the same thing happened to me with a bus driver. So I've been chasing the Joker for several months and I don't know when I'm going to find the real culpr...

The alchemist The alchemist, in a moment of rest, was walking quietly through the garden. Seeing the beauty of those flowers he thought that his work of turning metals into gold was a trifle. He would never know how nature manages to create so many wonders, and how it has created us so that we can contemplate them. He was working in a multinational company that was in charge of many things. Heiress to the old Google, she had extended her activity to the manufacture of electro cybernetic components that used gold profusely. The robot industry, present everywhere, was being one of the main activities of the company. Suddenly he realized that one of the robots was watching him. A cold sweat ran over his body. He knew that the reports sent by the robots could lead to his being fired, and being fired meant dying of hunger and loneliness. The robots had long since taken control of almost everything. Worried, he returned to the workplace wondering what would happen. He was not al...

Patroclus And Patroclus returned from the dead to accompany Achilles. Because there are forces hidden to the living that can defeat death. These forces are present in the instants of the transit and snatch the breath, to take it to a new dimension. These forces are born when feeling is created and grows and evolves, and these vortices envelop the body and soul creating an impassable barrier to death. Patroclo Y Patroclo regresó de la muerte para acompañar a Aquiles. Porque hay fuerzas ocultas a los vivos que pueden vencer a la muerte. Esas fuerzas están presentes en los instantes del tránsito y arrebatan el hálito para llevarlo a una nueva dimensión. Estas fuerzas nacen cuando el sentimiento se crea y crece y evoluciona, y esos vórtices envuelven el cuerpo y alma creando una barrera infranqueable a la muerte.

White roses He was going to visit his wife. He brought a match to the bouquet of white roses. The petals opened and fell on that path flanked by millenary trees that was leading him to what, until a few days ago, had been his home. When he reached the door, the bouquet had died, but the universe was not going to allow him to write fate. Inexplicably, when his wife opened the door for him, beautiful white flowers was adorning the bouquet. Rosas blancas Iba a visitar a su esposa. Acercó una cerilla al ramo de rosas blancas. Los pétalos se abrieron y fueron cayendo sobre aquel sendero que flanqueado por árboles milenarios conducía a la que, hasta hacía unos días, había sido su casa. Al llegar a la puerta, el ramo había muerto, pero el universo no iba a permitir que él escribiera el destino. Inexplicablemente, cuando su esposa le abrió la puerta, unas hermosas flores blancas adornaban el ramo.

Silence Among the secret folds of your silence, there are hidden words that you did not let escape. The mirror in which you looked at yourself broke your image, and fleeting thoughts, captured in white canvases, sketched your present, which is the absence of my future. Because of your unreachable state, the roses bleed, the aquamarines weep, and the emotioned waves break over your narrow receptacle. Black habits encircle your inert body, and the lilies around you, like an insurmountable border, keep you alone, unattainable. Silencio Entre los secretos pliegues de tu silencio, se esconden palabras que no dejaste escapar. Rompió tu imagen el espejo en el que te mirabas, y pensamientos fugaces, plasmados en blancos lienzos, esbozaron tu presente, que es la ausencia de mi futuro. Por tu presente, sangran las rosas, lloran las aguamarinas, y rompen las olas emocionadas sobre tu estrecho receptáculo. Negros hábitos ciñen tu cuerpo inerte, y los lirios en tu derre...

Pluto The spaceship crashed into Pluto's ground. Someone cried on Earth. Someone who had put his dreams in the hands of one of the crew. Someone who went to Pluto to recognize the corpse, and there stayed with him to fulfill his dreams. Plutón La nave se estrelló contra el suelo de Plutón. Alguien lloró en la Tierra. Alguien que había puesto sus sueños en manos de uno de los tripulantes. Alguien que fue a Plutón a reconocer el cadáver, y allí se quedó con él para cumplir sus sueños.

Spectrums A good breakfast always helps to face the day with courage. Especially if the coffee is of good quality. The waitress greeted me kindly, and as every day she served me a coffee with very hot milk and a freshly made croissant. That morning I was entertaining myself looking at a lady who had sat close to where I was. Suddenly a spectral image just like hers began to take shape. The ghost rose from the chair and went to where I was, sat next to me and said: "I'm in love with you, and I'm not leaving you for anything in the world." It is a wonderful spectral figure. We are living together and from that day on never we have lived separated. When I see that lady at breakfast, I wonder how she'll live without her spectrum. Espectros Un buen desayuno siempre ayuda a enfrentarse al día con ánimo. Especialmente si el café es de buena calidad. La camarera me saludó amablemente, y como todos los días me sirvió un café con leche muy calient...

Lake Garda A few months ago I bought a mansion near what was Lake Garda. It is a superb mid-seventeenth-century building, but some of its outbuildings did not meet the conditions of habitability, so the foundations of part of the basement had to be revised. During the first excavation, the workers found a small metal box in which some initials had been engraved. After trying to open it unsuccessfully, there was no choice but to break it. Inside there were several objects among which were discs about 10 centimeters in diameter. I didn't know exactly what it was about and I mentally asked the World Library. Immediately, all the information concerning those disks was reproduced in my mind. According to the information stored, these were memory systems that were used in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. I visually reviewed one of them and sent it telepathically to the World Library. Again, the images and sounds on that disc were immediately reproduced in m...

Extrasounds Katy, recovered from the shock of seeing and hearing Tom, didn't know where to start looking for his mates. As they fed on the darkness, she tried to remember places where they could have taken refuge from the light. When she was a child, her uncle confessed to her that tiny beings detected ultrasound signals that humans can generate. In order to generate these signals it is necessary to adopt a certain body posture and emit a sequence of intense guttural sounds. Thinking it could work, Katy did it so. That same night, when she was getting ready to sleep, she was alerted by a tap on the glass in the bedroom window. Extrasonidos Katy, recuperada de shock que había supuesto poder ver y oír a Tom, no sabía por dónde empezar a buscar a sus compañeros. Como se alimentaban de la oscuridad trató de recordar lugares en los que hubieran podido refugiarse de la luz. Cuando era niña, su tío le confesó que los seres diminutos detectaban señales de ultrasoni...

Her Eyes That morning I went to the garden to meet her. When I arrived at the greenhouse, the large leaves of the cove concealed most of her anatomy. Even so, I could see her eyes of intense gaze, inquisitive and sweet at the same time. Slowly I surrounded the cove and saved the space that separated us. I caressed her head, and her eyes, staring at me, became damp. I believe that at that moment she was saying goodbye. It had only been a few days since I had saved her life, although I could not prevent her from being badly wounded by a crazy sniper. She closed her eyes, and I cried heartbrokenly. For a few days she had been my panther, and her eyes had expressed it all. Sus ojos Aquella mañana me dirigí al jardín para encontrarme con ella. Cuando llegué al invernadero, las grandes hojas de la cala ocultaban la mayor parte de su anatomía. Aun así, podía ver sus ojos de mirada intensa, inquisitivos y dulces al mismo tiempo. Lentamente rodeé la cala y salvé el espaci...

Antigravity Waves When Tom and the wolves moved from Letha to the planet Gorga with the intention of rescuing magical beings kidnapped by the inhabitants of Gorga, they had to activate their shields against the antigravity waves coming from the planet. These waves were preventing them from approaching its surface. The shields were actually antigravity waves of greater intensity than those emitted by the planet and generated by the group through an effect of synchrony in resonance. This allowed them to reach the surface of the planet and follow the spider that had as destiny the centers in which the kidnapped beings were interned. Ondas antigravitatorias Cuando Tom y los lobos se trasladaron de Letha al planeta Gorga con la intención de rescatar a unos seres mágicos secuestrados por los habitantes de Gorga, tuvieron que activar sus escudos contra las ondas antigravitatorias procedentes del planeta. Estas ondas les impedían acercarse a su superficie. Los escudos eran r...

Communication Kathy saw that behind that device that moved its legs with amazing agility, a herd of wolves tried to climb into the cabin from which someone was directing the movements of the huge robot. And she thought she could distinguish between the dogs and a human silhouette. Immediately, the image was enlarged and she saw the features of a young man dressed in strange clothes and who seemed to be giving instructions to the wolves. Kathy could not interpret what she was witnessing. Nor could she identify Tom because she did not know him. She kept an eye on what she was seeing and suddenly in her mind she heard Tom's voice. -I don't know who you are. As you're looking at this, I know you have the box, but I don't know where my friends are. I beg you to contact them and return the box to them so that we can communicate. Comunicación Kathy vio que detrás de aquel artefacto que movía las patas con sorprendente agilidad, una manada de lobos intentab...

Customs At customs, they had found in his suitcase the loves he lost when he was young. A security guard requisitioned his material and now he can no longer find the memories that could take him back to his old happiness. He is hollow. Aduana En la aduana, habían encontrado en su maleta los amores que perdió cuando era joven. Un guardia de seguridad le requisó el material y ahora ya no puede encontrar los recuerdos que le podían llevar a su antigua felicidad. Está hueco.

The Doorbell We were having dinner at home when the doorbell rang. It was death. I stayed calm because the door was locked and I couldn't get in. We were protected. Soon I discovered that death, although it rings the doorbell to warn us of its arrival, does not need us to open the door to be able to enter. Death is inside us. El timbre Estábamos cenando en casa cuando sonó el timbre de la puerta. Era la muerte. Yo me quedé tranquilo porque la puerta estaba cerrada con llave y no podía entrar. Estábamos protegidos. Al poco rato descubrí que la muerte, aunque llame al timbre de casa para avisarnos de su llegada, no necesita que le   abramos la puerta para entrar. Está dentro de nosotros.

Pañuelos Aquellos pañuelos habían estado abandonados en un baúl durante mucho tiempo. Alguien abrió un día el baúl y los encontró allí, inmaculados. Al cogerlos, un papelito del tamaño de una tarjeta de visita cayó al suelo y en él se podía leer: ‘Apartado de correos número 212. Clave: amapola’ Cuando abrieron la taquilla se encontraron una libreta muy gastada y una pequeña caja metálica. El primer impulso fue abrir la caja, y la sorpresa fue encontrar unos seres diminutos con forma humana que saludaban eufóricamente a sus salvadores. La libreta era un diario, y su autor había descrito con todo lujo de detalles cuándo y cómo descubrió a esos seres, que se alimentaban de la oscuridad, y su relación con ellos durante años.                                    oooooooooo0oooooooooooooo Pequeños seres Gracias a los apuntes que aparecían en el diario, se supo que a estos ...