Twilight's Flash Fiction / Relatos cortos crepusculares

  The Return Trip When I arrived at the inner part of me, there was nothing. I tried to return to my known part, but it was impossible. So, since that happened, I feel being but I at the same time feel am not. I have lost everything except the words. The magic of words.   El viaje de retorno Cuando llegué a mi interior, no había nada. Intenté volver a mi parte conocida, pero fue imposible. Entonces, desde que eso pasó, siento que soy pero al mismo tiempo siento que no soy. Lo he perdido todo excepto las palabras. La magia de las palabras.

 Zero Space And in an instant it happened. Sipping my morning coffee, I began to notice pressure in my right eye that immediately increased and spread throughout my body. As an engineer specializing in Cosmology, he had studied the theory of zero space, but it had not found acceptance in academia. The forces that maintain the existence of space become unbalanced and space begins to close on itself and ends up disappearing. That was happening to me, my face began to narrow and my limbs snaked, losing their rigidity and shrinking and trying to communicate with my brain, but they couldn't...   Espacio cero Y en un instante ocurrió. Saboreando el café de la mañana, empecé a notar presión en el ojo derecho que inmediatamente aumentó y se extendió por todo el cuerpo. Como ingeniero especializado en cosmos, había estudiado la teoría del espacio cero, pero no había tenido aceptación en el mundo académico. La fuerzas que mantienen la existencia del espacio se desequilibran y el...

  Encounter And the alien asked the farmer about the crops he had in his fields. The farmer, perplexed by the stranger's appearance, thought he was someone going to a costume party. He hesitated for a moment about the answer and in the end decided to explain the details of the crops. He did not know that his abduction was very close. Absorbed in his detailed explanations, he did not notice the spaceship that was silently approaching the vicinity of his winepress. Everything happened very quickly. He felt nauseous and had the sensation that the ground was opening up at his feet. When he woke up, an endless expanse of unknown plant crops awaited him. He was wearing a kind of space suit and on the distant horizon he could see the incredible image of two enormous suns, each one illuminating that immense space with a different light. But, what was far in front of him? But, what was far in front of him? In some way his winepress was there. Someone had brought to this distant planet his l...

ChatGPT’s answer to the question: Could I have your opinion about this flash fiction piece?: Title: Shadow During the night, I went to the cemetery to accompany the spirit of my recently deceased wife. Sitting at the edge of the grave, I talked to her and remembered the last moments we lived together. At first, I thought I saw something moving in the distance. Intrigued, I tried to identify it. A few moments passed and that began to take shape. It was a shadow. It was a shadow cast by the moonlight. Suspicious and maintaining distance, that black shape greeted me timidly with a wave of its hand. For an instant, terror seized me. Slowly, I tried to walk away toward the exit but to increase my despair, two other shadows blocked my way a few meters away. I plucked up my courage and ran to the massive iron gate that I had left ajar. When I reached the height of the shadows, I looked at the ground and I could see my shadow going through them without any impediment. When I left the cemet...

 Shadow During the night, I went to the cemetery to accompany the spirit of my recently deceased wife. Sitting at the edge of the grave, I talked to her and remembered the last moments we lived together. At first, I thought I saw something moving in the distance. Intrigued, I tried to identify it. A few moments passed and that began to take shape. It was a shadow. It was a shadow cast by the moonlight. Suspicious and maintaining distance, that black shape greeted me timidly with a wave of its hand. For an instant, terror seized me. Slowly, I tried to walk away toward the exit but to increase my despair, two other shadows blocked my way a few meters away. I plucked up my courage and ran to the massive iron gate that I had left ajar. When I reached the height of the shadows, I looked at the ground and I could see my shadow going through them without any impediment. When I left the cemetery, under the moonlight, I ran a long way and then tried to sit down to recover my strength. It ...

 We Are Made of Time Time is the only thing we have and don't have. When you understand that time is yours, you start to control it and not allow it to control you. When you savor every moment without the time disguised as obligations enslaving you, you are the king.   Estamos hechos de tiempo El tiempo es lo único que tenemos y no tenemos. Cuando comprendes que el tiempo es tuyo, empiezas a controlarlo y a no permitirle que te controle. Cuando cada instante lo saboreas sin que el tiempo disfrazado de obligaciones te esclavice, eres el rey.

The Constest He was very fond of contests. So he participated in one and won. The prize was a trip into the unknown. The destination did not matter to him, he had an enormous desire to travel. When he arrived on the day of his departure, he appeared at the address that those responsible for the contest had provided him. He waited in a gray room for a while, until a man dressed in black appeared. He told the contester to follow him. The contester took the suitcases and the man in black turned to say to him that he could leave them there, that behind his mask of a human in a black dress he was real death and that for this trip to the unknown he did not need luggage. El concurso Era muy aficionado a los concursos. Así que se presentó a uno y ganó. El premio era un viaje a lo desconocido. No le importaba el destino, tenía unas enormes ganas de viajar. Cuando llegó el día de su partida, se presentó e, la dirección que los responsables del concurso le habían facilitado. Esperó en una sala ...

Movement Today I have verified what I had been intuiting for a long time. Light does not propagate in a vacuum. It's instant. The first attempts to measure the speed of light, Roemer's experiments in 1676, when measuring eclipses of Jupiter's moon Io, did not take into account that space is not empty. The same happened with the Michelson-Morley experiment, in which the non-existence of the ether was demonstrated. If they had carried out the experiment in a space filled with water, simulating the movement of the Earth, they would have obtained the same result. The problem is that the experiment cannot detect something that is undetectable: movement. Or put another way, light ignores what we understand by movement. For light, movement does not exist. Movimiento Hoy he comprobado lo que venía intuyendo desde hace tiempo. La luz no se propaga en el vacío. Es instantáneo. Los primeros intentos de medir la velocidad de la luz, los experimentos de Roemer en 1676, al medir los ecli...

The Hole 1 As the spacecraft approached Saturn, onboard instruments detected the presence of thoughts created by someone outside of the crew. Thoughts that were subtly transformed into concrete actions. The commander interpreted that those thoughts came from the hole. An idea that, like in The Odyssey, in which the sirens tried to convince Ulysses to lead him to a fatal destination, they tried to convince the crew to approach the hole. The event catcher system detected the way in which thoughts acted on certain crew members to promote a mutiny. El agujero 1 A medida que la nave se aproximaba a Saturno, los instrumentos de a bordo detectaron la presencia de pensamientos ajenos a la tripulación. Pensamientos que se transformaban sutilmente en acciones concretas. El comandante interpretó que aquellos pensamientos provenían del agujero. Una idea que como en La Odisea, en la que las sirenas trataban de convencer a Ulises para conducirlo a un destino fatal, pretendían convencer a los tripula...

 The Hole A thousand years had passed since astronomers discovered it, and that hole had always been there. It was a black cavity on the surface of Saturn. During all those years, they had seen that the hole devoured everything that appeared in its vicinity. In addition, he changed position with extraordinary ease. Finally, an expedition to the planet, equipped with all the mental force measuring devices, including an event trapping system, was going to discover its secret. El agujero Habían pasado mil años desde que los astrónomos lo descubrieran, y aquel agujero siempre había estado allí. Era una cavidad negra sobre la superficie de Saturno. Durante todos aquellos años, habían visto que el agujero devoraba todo lo que aparecía en sus proximidades. Además, cambiaba de posición con una facilidad extraordinaria. Por fin, una expedición al planeta, provista de todos los aparatos medidores de fuerzas mentales, incluido un sistema atrapador de eventos iba a descubrir su secreto.

Neglect He was careless for an instant and a feeling fell to the ground and broke. It wasn't just any feeling. He knelt down and began to pick up the countless bits scattered on the floor. A day passed and another day. A year passed and another year. And it happened to pass by the one who sees everything, and knowing that he would still have to be many years to complete his work, he took pity on him and asked him. "Is that feeling that has broken you so important?" "It is my mother's, which has been with me since she died and is the food of my soul to continue living". The one who sees everything gathered the pieces that were scattered on the ground and gave them to him. -It is my wish that this feeling continues to be part of you and that your soul feels protected until the end of your days. Descuido Se descuidó un instante y un sentimiento se le cayó al suelo y se rompió. No era un sentimiento cualquiera. Se arrodilló y empezó a recoger los incontables tro...

The D ream of Time You think you exist but you know very well that you are not, and you have never been, nor will you be. Your existence is not real, because you are only an instant in the dream of time. El sueño del tiempo Crees que existes pero tu sabes bien que no estás, y nunca has estado, ni estarás. Tú existencia no es real, porque solo eres un instante en el sueño del tiempo.

Elysium Mons The ship came to rest gently on the arid soil of Elysium Mons, located at the coordinates 25 N, 213 W, of Mars. The duration of interstellar travel required entire families to embark to ensure that young crew members could replace the older ones in due course and thus ensure the success of the missions. On an experimental journey through the galaxy, the ship approached the solar system and established contact with the Interplanetary Brotherhood on Earth. In fact, there was a close collaboration between the different beings that inhabited the planets and satellites of the galaxy to preserve harmony and proper functioning between them. In collaboration with the Near Space Unit of Planet Earth, they managed to find out that the little boy, confusing Mars with Earth, tried to see his friend, whom he had met on his previous trip. They found his little green body in one of the folds of the ground. No one could explain how the little boy had left the ship without anyone or the se...

 Iguanodon One rainy day, an iguanodon stumbled across a Higgs boson. He was surprised by that coincidence, especially considering that their universes were very different and that time passed differently for them as well. As both had the gift of communication, the iguanodon paid its respects to the boson by bowing its head, to which the boson responded by taking off his hat. Everyone knows that on rainy days the bosons are prone to getting cold. Our iguanodon, who inhabited the Earth a million years after humans had disappeared, had studied their behavior and knew that they hadn't behaved well with the bosons. In the particle accelerators, they had been isolated so they couldn't communicate. In fact, the disappearance of the human race was a consequence of the revenge of the bosons. For all this, the iguanodon felt a certain sympathy for the bosons and expressed it to the Higgs boson. The boson thanked him for his gift and invited him to visit his world. At that moment, the do...

 Caged in My Feelings It was at birth when it happened. My mother gave birth to me at sea. When I slipped through her vagina, the image of being among aquamarines and a strong taste of the sea penetrated my consciousness forever. That sensation of the sea, of salty air, has not left me, until today. My father grabbed my feet and turned me face down. My brain protested, and at that moment my conscious self shared the Oedipus complex with my subconscious until my father died. I had to fight many wars afterwards in a hostile and ruthless world. Years after my father's death, my loving mother succumbed to a long and painful illness, and she left me alone. The aquamarines and the taste of the sea came to comfort me, as always happened when events conspired to destroy my little energy to survive. At the bottom of the sea, in the turquoise waters where I was born, I found the peace that denied me existence. Until today. In moments of despair, I learned to sneak into the past to talk t...

Tenderness She was happy, until her daughter was born. She loved her more than life itself, and she doted on her and cared for her until she was a little woman. However, she did not allow anyone to see her in all those years. From now on she will no longer be able to protect her. Sweet and sensual lips reveal her immaculate and perfect teeth. Her skin, made of silk, inspires in her mother an eternal tenderness. A pleasant face if it weren't for that incomprehensible anomaly. Nature made a mistake and she came to decide that her eyes, of infinite blue, were born on her forehead. Two thick skin cloths covered the empty eye sockets and a recurring question invaded her soul.  Why? Ternura Era feliz, hasta que nació su hija. La quería más que a su propia vida y la mimó y cuidó hasta que se convirtió en una mujercita. Sin embargo, no permitió que nadie la viera en todos aquellos años. A partir de ahora ya no podrá protegerla. Unos labios dulces y sensuales dejan ver sus dientes inmaculad...

Time and Eternity I wandered through Eternity, and without realizing it, I came to the place where Time lives. When I entered, Time asked me about her friend Eternity. Eternity has always been separate from Time, but Time adores it. He spares no effort to get her attention, but Eternity, undaunted, ignores his claims, knowing they will never be together. El tiempo y la eternidad Deambulaba por la eternidad, y sin darme cuenta, llegué al lugar en el que vive el tiempo. Cuando entré, el tiempo me preguntó por su amiga la eternidad. La eternidad siempre ha estado separada del tiempo, pero el tiempo la adora. Éste no escatima esfuerzos para que ella le preste atención, pero la eternidad, impávida, ignora sus pretensiones, sabiendo que nunca estarán juntos.

Other Worlds World Government laws were very clear on this: any accident resulting in death would be sentenced to link the author to the family of the deceased, for whom he would work for the rest of his life. The driver got out of the car and was horrified to discover the limp body of someone, most of whom remained under the car, a tenth-generation Tesla. The torn suit was revealing part of the arm that protruded from under the side of the left front wheel. A small puddle of a green liquid spread slowly soaking up the tire and advancing towards the sidewalk. He had run over an alien. He still did not know that the alien was a diplomat from the 2A System, in charge of negotiations between the World Government and the representatives of his System to establish an economic collaboration agreement. Panic seized him. He walked a few steps and lost consciousness, falling into the puddle of green liquid. He woke up in the hospital. A Government Delegation was waiting to explain his situatio...

The Game of Chess 1 After three hundred years and endless moves in which the mastery of both contenders was manifested, Almanzor achieved checkmate. Alexius, annoyed, asked him for time to inform his people of the new world order. When the news spread around the world, the families of the contenders on both sides were happy, especially because thousands of combatants killed in combat would resume their lives, which would pass through other spaces and times as if nothing had happened. Pope Urban ll reacted energetically, reproaching Alexius 1 for the foolishness of his decision, refusing to admit the change in course of world history. La partida de ajedrez 1 Después de trescientos años y un sinfín de jugadas en las que se manifestaba la maestría de ambos contendientes, Almanzor consiguió el jaque mate. Alejo, contrariado, le pidió tiempo para informar a su pueblo del nuevo orden del mundo. Cuando la noticia se extendió por el orbe, las familias de los contendientes de ambos bandos se al...

  The Game of Chess Al-Mansur advanced White's right bishop to challenge Alexios I Comneno's black knight. It was a timeless game that took place in the center of the Universe. The two men had followed each other through time, though only in the singularity of the collision of two space-time structures had allowed them to meet face to face. Al-Mansur had learned of the existence of Alexios I in his travels in the future, and challenged the Byzantine emperor to rewrite history, so that if Al-Mansur defeated him, the first crusade would not take place, thus choosing one of the infinitely many. different futures for history. Alexios I Comneno, sure of his triumph, did not hesitate to accept that matchless challenge. La partida de ajedrez Almanzor avanzó el alfil derecho blanco para desafiar al caballo negro de Alejo I Comneno. Era una partida atemporal que tenía lugar en el centro del Universo. Los dos hombres se habían perseguido a través del tiempo, aunque solo en la singulari...

Other F utures On a trip to India, specifically to the Gujarat region where I sponsor a child, I was invited to his initiation ceremony into adulthood. I was traveling alone. Although my wife offered to accompany me, I discouraged her because I thought it could be a tiring and uncomfortable trip for her. After a while, I would regret that decision. When I arrived at the Indira Gandhi airport, someone was waiting for me carrying a sign with my name. The taxi driver drove through the streets of New Delhi until he reached a dimly lit suburb. It surprised me that someone would hire a taxi to take me to my sponsored child's home, especially because of the precarious situation in which his family lived. Everything around me made me feel a strange sensation. His father came out to meet me and we greeted each other. He invited me into his house where there was hardly any furniture or where to sit. But there, a Sikh attired in his finery awaited. He got up and bowed to me. That attitude put...

Alison 2 Alison surrendered to the evidence. The proof was irrefutable. Napoleon had hidden interests that she did not know how to decipher. She recalled that when he taught classes, it was said that he belonged to an esoteric sect segregated from the Rosicrucians, which had ties to extreme right-wing groups. At last the meeting began. Napoleon began the interventions by assuring that the cybersecurity team was preparing to unmask the author of the information leak, since he had recordings as incriminating evidence. There was an expectant silence in the room and the projection of the recording began. It showed Alison feverishly pounding on the keyboard at four in the morning at her workplace. By keeping track of what Alison was typing at the time, she made clear her authorship. Then Alison discovered that she had a double personality and that in one of them she was a delinquent. Alison 2 Alison se rindió a la evidencia. La prueba era irrefutable. Napoleón tenía intereses ocultos que no...

 Fireflies and Light Worms The sunset on Mars was spectacular. We had booked a room at the Experience Hotel, a building strategically located at the foot of the western slope of one of the Olympus Mons mountains. As night approached, millions of multicolored lights stretched along the hill. Fireflies and light worms competed in their slow ascent to crown the top. It was a spectacular image. A unique moment was transformed into a tragedy when suddenly, the sky was flooded by carnivorous little stars that pounced on those miraculous little lights. In a few moments, the darkness perched on that multicolored carpet. Two tears escaped from the eyes of my dear woman cyborg companion. Then was when I learned that machines also feel. Luciérnagas y coquitos de luz La puesta de sol en Marte fue espectacular. Habíamos reservado una habitación en el hotel Experience, un edificio estratégicamente ubicado al pie de la ladera occidental de una de las montañas Olympus Mons. A medida que se acercab...