Twilight's Flash Fiction / Relatos cortos crepusculares

Savannah Her black skin contrasted with her deep blue eyes. With a Sudanese father and a Norwegian mother, she had spent most of her life traveling as a reporter for a major newspaper. Now retired, she was enthusiastic about a project she had been shaping for years. Her idea was to organize the transport of food to drought-stricken areas of the world through Worldnet, the global communications network that had inherited the old Internet. The latest breakthroughs in electromagnetic transport made it possible to transform matter into energy, send it to its destination, and then transform it back into matter while preserving all its properties. To accomplish this, she had amassed a small fortune that would allow her to launch a pilot test. The plan was to send food from Sudan—rich in raw materials—to Norway, a country devastated by the climate change that had occurred a few years earlier. The pilot test consisted of sending several containers of cereals. It was the first attempt at tel...

Back to Eridani We arrived at this place a long time ago, the place in the Universe where souls lost like ours come to rest. And here, we have lived and shared almost everything. Your children—who are my children—chose to remain on Earth. This is an inhospitable place, I know, but it is our home. Helpless, I spent so many nights sitting by your bed when you were ill, outside of time, not knowing how to bring you back. I still have you, although I no longer have you. You are gone, and I am still here. Today, I visited your tomb, which is also mine. You are not here, but you are always here. You have died, yet you have not died. In spite of you and in spite of me, there is something that goes beyond us both. If returning is allowed, let us meet again in this place for all eternity. Volver a Eridani Llegamos a este lugar hace mucho tiempo, a ese rincón del Universo al que arriban las almas perdidas como las nuestras. Y aquí hemos vivido y compartido casi todo. Tus hijos —que tambié...