Twilight's Flash Fiction / Relatos cortos crepusculares

  The Revenge of the Gardens The gardens, abstracted from everything that was not their own beauty, fed on the feelings of their visitors, extracted all their energy to finally leave them inert on the ground. Thus the centuries passed until Cyrus the Great decided to invade Babylon, enter his capital, Babylon, and visit the gardens. Ciro, faced with that indescribable beauty, stayed speechless and for an instant lost his sense of reality, while the gardens prepared their own revenge from him. When Ciro woke up, a security guard stopped him, put him in the car and took him to the police station for being inappropriately dressed and disturbing public order. The gardens had banished him in time to the twenty-first century. Los jardines abstraídos de todo lo que no fuera su propia belleza, se alimentaban de los sentimientos de sus visitantes, les extraía toda su energía para finalmente dejarlos inertes en el suelo. Así fueron pasando los siglos en Babilonia hasta que Ciro el Grande dec...

 Flight 675-AH The aircraft in which I have been travelling on an intercontinental flight from Madrid to Cape Town has just landed. I am the only return passenger. When we took off from the airport there was no seat free. Approximately two hours into the flight and at a height of eleven thousand feet The aircraft began to lose speed but maintained its altitude, so that after a few minutes the aircraft stopped suspended in the air. The stewardess indicated over the loudspeakers that the cabin was being depressurized and that the oxygen masks would be deployed. Through the window I could see what looked like a huge lenticular cloud. When the masks fell, I was the only one to put them on. The other passengers got up from their seats and proceeded to the exit in an orderly manner. Then, from the lenticular cloud, a kind of walkway emerged that extended to the door of the aircraft. Each of the passengers got out and headed for the cloud through the walkway. When everyone had disembarked...

 Mother She is heaven and earth, the beginning and the end, the rain, the sun and joy. She is good thoughts, truth and life. She is the blue of the sky and the sweet mornings of childhood. She is the infinite sea and the infinite stars of every moment. She is all. Mi madre Ella es el cielo y la tierra, el principio y el fin, la lluvia, el sol y la alegría. Ella son los buenos pensamientos, la verdad y la vida. Es el azul de cielo y las mañanas dulces de la niñez. Es el mar infinito y las infinitas estrellas de cada instante. Es todo.

 Vibrations Two old friends, one of them an inhabitant of a hydrogen atom in a water molecule, and the other a being from the Andromeda galaxy, met at the midpoint of the universe to chat about the future. One of them commented: the only difference between a galaxy and an atom is size. For example, we are very similar. For eons we have met for taking beers and our points of view are very similar. The other added: it has always been like this. I remember that even before the universe was created, everything was a question of vibrations. In the case of humans, the waves materialize in bodies of flesh and blood. Souls peer into the world through the bodies that occupy the interstices of nothingness. And they think that light has the secret of relativity. However they do not know that the center of the universe is each one of them and that is why they cannot find the center. Vibraciones Dos viejos amigos, uno de ellos habitante de un átomo de hidrógeno de una molécula de agua, y el otr...

Large Hadron Collider The large particle collider has exploded, dividing the Earth globe into two equal halves, rotating between them and leaving to see the bowels of the Earth . We called the emergency room of hospital for someone to come home to save our lives. A woman's voice answered the call. Her voice cracked as she answered. They needed more help than us. The ambulances had left and the hospital lights had decided to abandon every room of every hospital. My interlocutor burst into tears and I told her that we would go help them. That we would bring a large package of electricity that we had in the pantry and that we would leave our car with them. The woman wouldn't stop crying and, after crying for a while, I also hung up the phone. El gran colisionador de hadrones El gran colisionado de partículas ha estallado, dividiendo el globo terráqueo en dos mitades iguales, girando entre ellas y dejando al descubierto las entrañas de la Tierra. Llamamos a urgencias para que algui...