Twilight's Flash Fiction / Relatos cortos crepusculares

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 helps me face the day with courage — especially when the coffee is strong and perfectly made. The waitress greeted me kindly, as she always does, and placed before me a cup of very hot coffee with milk and a freshly baked croissant. . That morning, I found myself watching a lady who had taken a seat not far from mine. As I observed her, something began to take shape beside her — an image identical to her own. The spectral double rose slowly from the chair. It walked toward me. It sat down at my side and whispered: "I'm in love with you. I'm not leaving you for anything in the world." It is a wonderful presence.  We live together now, and since that morning we have never been apart. When I see that lady at breakfast, I sometimes wonder how she manages without her spectrum. Espectros Un buen desayuno siempre ayuda a afrontar el día con ánimo, sobre todo si el café es de buena calidad. La camarera me saludó amablemente, y...

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...