Twilight's Flash Fiction / Relatos cortos crepusculares

The New Scenario (1) January 2022: as a consequence of the global pandemic declared at the end of 2019, the countries of the European Union have decided to dissolve it due to the ineffectiveness of their institutions. Africa, the continent hardest hit by the pandemic, has lost more than half of its population. After the worst humanitarian catastrophe in its history, the United States has given up world leadership because of the unstoppable force of China. Russia has managed to rehabilitate the ghost of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Following the impressive evolution of electronic money during this short period of time, the new financial system has undermined the old order. The money as we knew it until now has disappeared and transactions worldwide are carried out with cryptocurrencies. Wealth has changed hands. The richest are citizens residing in the countries least affected by the pandemic. The price of food products has multiplied by two hundred in the e...

The New Island Surprised, she got up to flee from the proximity of those birds that looked at her strangely and caused her a certain dislike. With her clothes ragged and numb, she tried to find a glimpse of buildings or signs that the island was inhabited. Nothing she could see from there allowed her any hope. She walked slowly away from the beach towards a small forest. She had always dreamed of the creatures that populate the forest, ever since her mother told her about their existence. With a certain suspicion, she approached that magical place and the branches of those enormous trees interwoven a cloak that hardly let sunlight pass. She went into the thicket and when she could barely see the entrance to the forest as a small luminous spark, she felt fear. Not for long, because as she advanced in the middle of that gloom, her feet gave way and she began to fall and fall ... La isla nueva Sorprendida, se levantó para huir de la proximidad de aquellas aves que la miraban extra...