Twilight's Flash Fiction / Relatos cortos crepusculares

Hyacinths The hyacinths had spread their endless scent among the black shadows of death. Death could not resist, and the newly sleeping child awoke from what was to be his eternal sleep. Jacintos Los jacintos habían esparcido su infinito perfume entre las negras sombras de la muerte. La muerte no se pudo resistir y el niño recién dormido se despertó de lo que iba a ser su sueño eterno.

Hchac The eternal night of the deep space that penetrates through the enormous eyes that open to the abyss, contrasts with the light that emanates from the soft surface of the interior of the spaceship. Hchac comes to visit me. It is a chattering being whose head resembles that of a squirrel, the name of an animal as I have been able to rescue from the general archive, and the arms and legs are exactly the same as articulated arms of four cardan joints that can rotate 360 ​​degrees in all directions. Their movements are very agile and the precision of them is millimetric. But the most striking of its qualities is its ability to scrutinize the future. For that reason, never the general council take important decisions if they do not ask him before. He can answer questions such as how many sequences of ‘almich' flows, the ones responsible for make to loose the ship’s control, we will be able to find them when approaching a multiple system of stars and ‘verhuses’. 'Verhuse...

Karl Three trillion trillion seconds ago I was born on this ship and I will surely die on it. We share this habitat with beings from other regions of the universe. Karl is one of the watchers of the control. That's what we call the ship's complex drive system. We've been close friends since he saved my life billions of seconds ago. Four eyes around his head allow him to observe everything. He doesn't need to feed himself, and what might appear to be his mouth is a small slit he uses to directly assimilate the energy of the universe that we get from swallowing food. The ship has the capacity to carry about 100,000 individuals.   Its surface is soft and viscous, and it gives easily to pressure. It resembles the skin of whales, as described in the archives of eons ago, when my planet, Earth, existed. We traveled through galaxies and black holes, practicing the universal law of enthalpy balance. We have detected 16512 moods in human beings. Karl and his f...