Twilight's Flash Fiction / Relatos cortos crepusculares

The Eye of God In ancient Greece, in the garden of the academy, a philosopher, surrounded by his students, spoke about infinity. The infinite is an abstraction of the mind. Surely we, the human beings arrive at this idea from arithmetic, of thinking of an infinite number of numbers. But the existence of infinite distances is only a conception of the mind.  "Teacher, if there are no infinite distances, what is the structure of space? Is there anything beyond space?" "To think of the existence of something beyond space contains the same thought of infinity. It is a game of the mind. There is nothingness." "But the mind cannot apprehend nothingness." "Beyond the universes there is nothing. The whole of the existing is metaphorically called The Eye of God. Space is made up of light. The straight line trajectory is another invention of the mind. There is no straight line except in our mind." El ojo de Dios En la antigua Grecia, en...

Criticism He applied to study at Harvard. His intellectual abilities far were exceeding the standards required by the University. His father was a recognized politician and his mother a successful businesswoman. And they rejected his application. Reason: Potentially dangerous person. His school records indicated so.   He came to the Secretariat with a firearm. Several security guards riddled him with bullets. The gun he was carrying was a toy. When they searched his clothes, they found a note saying: Who is really dangerous? La crítica Presentó la solicitud para estudiar en Harvard. Sus capacidades intelectuales superaban ampliamente los niveles exigidos por la Universidad. Su padre era un reconocido político y su madre una empresaria de éxito. Y rechazaron su solicitud. Motivo: persona potencialmente peligrosa. Sus antecedentes escolares así lo indicaban.   SE presentó en Secretaría con un arma de fuego. Varios guardias de seguridad lo acri...

Charlemagne and the leper The frost of that cold morning had fallen on the camp, located in one of the narrow places, between the steep mountains, near the gorge of Roncesvalles. Charlemagne had summoned his nephew Roland to his tent to specify the route to follow on the way back to France. When the soldier left the tent in search of Roland, he stumbled upon a leper.    The leper asked the soldier to take him to Charlemagne, who had something very important to tell him. Why are you here? Your leprosy will infect my whole army. The leper knelt and answered him: If you'll allow me, I'll tell you what will happen in Roncesvalles. Speak! - Alda, Roland's wife sends me to tell you that because of the suffering caused in these lands and the destruction of Iruña, the Basques are going to attack the rear of your army, and in that attack will die the person she loves most in the world, Roland. For this reason, Roland's wife asks you to try to reconcile with ...

Electrolips A few years ago, a cancer ended up consuming my lips. Since I have had electrolips implanted, my life, and above all my perceptions, have changed radically. I say perceptions, because apart from the sense of touch that has multiplied by a thousand, the electrolips perceive through electromagnetic fields, the brain waves of the people around me. These waves carry the information that allows me to know hidden desires and thoughts. With this information I can anticipate the comments of my interlocutors in a conversation, as well as apply strategies to get what I want from them. Electrolabios Hace unos años, un cáncer acabó consumiendo mis labios. Desde que me han implantado unos electrolabios, mi vida, y sobre todo mis percepciones, han cambiado de forma radical. Digo percepciones, porque aparte del sentido del tacto que se ha multiplicado por mil, los electrolabios perciben mediante campos electromagnéticos, las ondas cerebrales de las personas que me rodea...

Puzzle If someone were to ask me how I managed to compose the puzzle of my life, I wouldn't know what to say. A puzzle that has changed over time, so that now all the pieces, family, work, health, my hobbies, and so on fit together perfectly. All of them? Well, between the pieces there is one in black and I don't know what it contains. Besides, this black piece has appeared after overcoming a state of coma of several months, as a consequence of an accident. When I ask my family, they tell me that it's a product of my imagination, but I know that the piece is real and it's there, waiting for its moment. And its moment came the same morning that I left the hospital. A young man approached me and rebuked me, called me a murderer and tried to hit me. When I tried to talk to him, my son pulled my arm and put me in his car. I found the explanation later at home, when I was resting in an armchair. It occurred to me to turn on the radio and the news left me frozen:...

Amanda The new stage of my life began with my divorce.   It was an original divorce. We had a party in the underwater city of Smarna. And that's where I met Amanda. Amanda was a blue girl with huge honey-colored eyes. Her skin, light blue and transparent in some areas of her body, was allowing her to show her incredible and attractive interior. When she felt weakness for someone, her hands changed to a pink blue. And that happened to her when we met. My ex-wife was a friend of hers and introduced me to her. Seconds later, she swam away to the surface. Several days later, chance brought us together in a ship bound for the limits of the solar system. It was then that I kidnapped her with my submission to her wishes, and the journey extended beyond the infinity. And we have not returned to our starting point. Amanda La nueva etapa de mi vida empezó con mi divorcio.   Fue un divorcio original. Celebramos una fiesta en la ciudad submarina de Smarna. Y fue all...

Maya Between the realities of birth and death, there is only Maya. Maya Entre las realidades del nacimiento y la muerte, solo existe maya.

Waterfalls Thomas went round and round in bed. The next day his parents would take him to see the falls, and he was so excited that he couldn't sleep. He had always thought of the cataracts as if they were a living thing. They arrived very early. When he saw the water fall from that height he was moved, it was an impressive spectacle, impossible to imagine. That day, the waterfalls were scrambled and needed to swallow someone. "Where will so much water come from?", he wondered at the same time as he was invaded by a sense of immensity. The deafening noise and the force of the water forming an enigmatic body. The waterfalls had already chosen their victim. Thomas dangerously approached a fence, and it gave way. In an instant he fell into the void. In the background, the rocks seemed happy to receive him. The sound of the water did not let his cries of despair be heard, and as he fell, his thoughts went to his parents. At the same time he realized that the ...

Evolution On the way to Jerusalem a warrior came upon a monk. After waging countless battles and traveling the world a hundred times, the defeated warrior asked the monk to reveal to him the secret of life. And the monk said to him: "In the waking state there is a place in the mind from which one can see everything in peace. From this place, events and feelings are devoid of negative thoughts or feelings. When you find that place within yourself, you will understand the meaning of life." Evolución En el camino hacia Jerusalén un guerrero se cruzó en el camino con un monje. Después de librar innumerables batallas y recorrer cien veces el mundo, el guerrero derrotado le pidió al monje que le revelara el secreto de la vida. Y el monje le dijo: -En el estado de vigilia hay un lugar en la mente desde el que se puede ver todo en paz. Desde este lugar, los acontecimientos y los sentimientos están desprovistos de pensamientos o sentimientos negativ...

Links And he closed his eyes to this world, perhaps unknowingly, to open them in another place and at another time. Perhaps to be eternal. Lazos Y cerró los ojos a este mundo, quizás, sin saberlo, para abrirlos en otro lugar y en otro tiempo. Quizás para ser eterno.