Twilight's Flash Fiction / Relatos cortos crepusculares

The Pigeon He set out to get out of his voluntary confinement. He had been for several days without a telephone, without a television, isolated from the outside world. It would be something unusual, but as far as possible it would be inside the possible, if not outside because it was three thousand meters from the ground. He opened the door to his room and headed for the living room. And a white dove came in his path, and landed on his shoulder. She had been missing him all those days, because he was the one who fed her, he was the one who caressed her, he was the one who told her every day that he loved her. And the pigeon drew his beak and caressed his face. La paloma Se dispuso a salir de su encierro voluntario. Había estado durante varios días sin teléfono, sin televisión, aislado del mundo exterior. Sería algo inusual, pero dentro de lo que cabe estaría dentro de lo posible, si no fuera porque estaba a tres mil metros del suelo. Abrió la puerta de su habitació...

WW3 The submarine, with an atomic charge capable of making the city of San Francisco disappear, docked at the pier. It was Christmas Day in 2025. A year earlier, the Russian-Chinese coalition had invaded the United States in the face of the passivity of the West, and the requests for asylum in European countries had exceeded all expectations. This massive flight precipitated the global confrontation. Now, all that remains of all that was are the thousands of artificial satellites dancing around the Earth turned into automaton zombies, accompanying the desolate planet in its course through the cold outer space. All civilizations invented their truths with the same innocence as they invented their lies. And they tried to turn man into a slave of himself and of others. The human being has not been able to discover the principle by which peace is a permanent state, and he will not discover it because already he has annihilated himself. Tercera guerra mundial El subma...

Sirius The route from Carthage to Rome: across Hispania, over the Pyrenees and through the Alps. No matter what trials he may have to face. In his heart, he always carries the memory of his father, Hamilcar, to whom he had promised that he would destroy Rome. Hannibal leads the march astride Sirius, an enormous elephant. Man and elephant create such a powerful image that every soldier in his army would follow them to his death. Some believe that Hannibal and Sirius are bound together by some supernatural spell. May, 218 BC. The army sets out from Qart Hadasht, or Carthago Nova, in Hispania. In August, it crosses the Pyrenees; in September, the Rhône. In October, it leaves the Alps behind. With far fewer troops than at the beginning of the campaign, Hannibal takes the city of Turin without encountering resistance. In November, he confronts Publius Cornelius Scipio at the Ticinus... And history continues. Much later, when Hannibal begins his retreat from Italian lands, Sirius, the ele...

The volcano It was being a closed night, and the volcano opened, showing its entrails to the world, giving birth to all that singular beauty. Its cries of birth invaded the air reaching to the other end of the world. The three universes united in one: the roars of pain, the burning color of lava, and the strong smell of birth pain. It knows that he acts as an intermediary between the pregnancies of the earth and the outside of the world, changing it surface and feeding iit from its inside. El volcán Era una noche cerrada, y el volcán se abrió, mostrando sus entrañas al mundo, dando a luz a toda aquella singular belleza. Sus gritos de parto invadían el aire llegando hasta el otro extremo del mundo. Los tres universos se unieron en uno: los rugidos de dolor, el color ardiente de la lava y el fuerte olor a dolor. Él sabe que actúa de intermediario entre los embarazos de la tierra y el exterior del mundo, cambiando su superficie y alimentándolo desde su interior. ...

Thoughts Superman met Einstein in heaven. After greeting each other warmly, Superman asked Einstein: -Master, explain to me why we cannot understand everything. -The raw material of understanding is ideas. We use ideas about things to try to go further. But deep down, it's just ideas. And they have served us well, but sometimes they don't represent the real world. The qualities of space and time are human attributes. Let's say that there is the real world, on the one hand, and the world of ideas on the other. Sometimes we think that ideas are the real world. The usefulness of ideas is manifested when they can predict the behavior of the real world. -But ideas can be more real than the real world. Real worlds can be created with ideas. I am an idea, but that idea may become a Superman in the real world in the future. -That is the miracle, the force of creation and transformation of ideas. In the future I hope to meet you again, already you being a real Superma...

A Brief Story Of Windsor It was the year 1070 of the Christian era. William the Conqueror, after the Northern Massacre that had taken place a few months earlier, had allowed himself a break at Windsor. The intense aroma of the laurel forest near the castle works, located in a hillock, was one of the pleasures enjoyed by the king every time he approached to supervise the construction. That morning a great noise was heard. William rushed out of his tent. He had been told that part of the wall had collapsed. The state was deplorable. A breach had opened from the top of the wall to its base, and some large blocks had fallen off, one of which had come to fall on a man heading for the forest of laurels. The wounded man, lying on the ground, did not stop complaining. He was a small man and he was frightened. Guillermo leaned over to find out how he was, and the man, about to die, told him: "I take care of the forest of laurels. I come every day, because there are buried ...

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...