Twilight's Flash Fiction / Relatos cortos crepusculares

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: ...