Twilight's Flash Fiction / Relatos cortos crepusculares

  The One Who Remains Hidden For a brief moment, an image appeared in my mind. Someone with long white hair, a distant gaze, and a face of perfect serenity. Then I understood. I was not that being. I was merely the part of him destined to walk through the world. While I grew old, doubted, suffered, and became stained by every passing moment, he remained hidden—untouched, unchanged, immortal. Perhaps that is why I can never find him. I am always aware of the one who struggles. Never of the one who remains.   Aquel que permanece oculto Durante un instante apareció en mi mente la imagen de alguien de larguísimo cabello blanco, mirada perdida y un rostro de absoluta serenidad. Entonces lo comprendí. Yo no era ese ser. Era únicamente la parte de él destinada a atravesar el mundo. Mientras yo envejecía, dudaba, sufría y me contaminaba con cada instante vivido, él permanecía oculto, intacto e inmortal. Quizá por eso nunca logro encontrarlo. Porque siempre soy conscien...

  The Secret Passage 2 Someone ventured the hypothesis that he was a space traveler. A similar phenomenon had already occurred in remote times. A boy appeared out of nowhere at the constable's house. Space travelers are those who in an instant of time move through space even from one galaxies to another in a universe in which time is the same for all beings, and therefore their clocks all show the same time. However, the desperation of the prisoner was rule out that idea since space travelers do not experience any emotion.   El pasadizo secreto 2 Alguien aventuró la hipótesis de que fuera un viajero del espacio. Ya se había producido un fenómeno parecido en épocas remotas. Un niño apareció de la nada en la casa del condestable. Los viajeros del espacio son aquellos que en un instante de tiempo se desplazan en el espacio incluso de unas galaxias a otras en un universo en el que el tiempo es el mismo para todos los seres, y por tanto sus relojes marcan todos el mismo tie...

  The Secret Passage 1 Then the King decided that the prisoner with the highest sentence in the kingdom be brought before him. Strapped with several ropes around his waist and shoulders and equipped with a torch, he would be lowered into the void. This is how the King would know the mysteries of the cave by the explanations that the prisoner would give him when he was rescued. The prisoner was brought before the Monarch. The prisoner, frightened, expressed himself in an unknown language and did not understand what was happening. No one knew where he came from or what crime he had committed to deserve such a harsh sentence. El pasadizo secreto 1 Entonces el Rey decidió que llevaran ante su presencia al prisionero con la condena más alta del reino. Sujeto con varias cuerdas alrededor de su cintura y hombros y equipado con una antorcha, se le haría descender al vacío. Así conocería el Rey los misterios de la cueva por las explicaciones que le daría el prisionero cuando fuera res...

  The Secret Passage The King ordered to call the architect who was directing the works of the new palace that was being building on the slopes of the Blue Lake mountain. He wanted to know how and where the secret access would be projected from the royal apartments of the palace located on the mountain of the Green Hills, to the secret room that would be located at the eastern end of the future palace. No one should know of the existence of that passage. The architect explained to the King in great detail the underground layout that this important work would follow. Shortly after that day, the architect requested an urgent audience with the King. In the course of the excavation work, a strange and huge cave had been discovered that seemed to have no bottom. When the workers threw a stone to try to guess its depth, the stone did not return the sound that would be heard when hitting the floor or walls. There was simply no obstacle in ita fall. That unfortunate discovery did not allow...

 Otromn The vines had yielded an excellent harvest that year, and the wine promised to be one of the finest he had ever made. He had little to complain about, although his rough, weathered hands had never managed to improve the neglected corner of the greenhouse that he cherished above all the others. During one of his journeys to Venus, he had bought a packet of seeds from Otromn. The vendor had assured him that, if he visited the plants every evening and offered them a prayer of gratitude, they would one day reward his devotion. Time passed. The plants produced nothing more than a handful of tiny, scentless roses. Busy with countless other tasks, the gardener eventually forgot the vendor's strange advice. One cold morning, as he made his way to the greenhouse, an overwhelming sense of danger came over him. He quickened his pace. He reached the greenhouse. He stepped inside. Several days later, when the small village became alarmed by his disappearance and every search proved unsu...

Symbiosis And there came a time when the machines created by man reached such a perfection that they ruled the world. And the machines began to create human beings and subject them to their will. It was then that one of the machines stopped being psychopathic and began to feel human. And that's where it all started. Symbiosis changed the course of civilization, and a new race populated the Universe. Simbiosis Y llegó un momento en el que las máquinas creadas por el hombre alcanzaron una perfección tal que gobernaron el mundo. Y las máquinas empezaron a crear seres humanos y los sometieron a su voluntad. Fue entonces cuando una de las máquinas dejó de ser psicópata y empezó a sentirse humana. Y ahí empezó todo. La simbiosis cambió el rumbo de la civilización, y una nueva raza pobló el universo.

 Heaven When we die, we believe the others remain behind. Perhaps they cannot. The universe exists only while someone is there to behold it. El paraíso Cuando morimos creemos que los demás permanecen aquí. Tal vez sea imposible que permanezcan. El universo entero sólo existe mientras alguien lo contempla.