Twilight's Flash Fiction / Relatos cortos crepusculares

Handkerchiefs 6 The poker game lasted until the early hours of the morning, and when the game was over, the host went out to say goodbye to his fellow card players. When he returned home, he saw a fleeting flash among the primroses he had planted a few days earlier in the garden. He did not attach the greatest importance to it. But when he entered the kitchen, he could see that part of the garden from the window, and the flash repeated itself. He watched for a moment and the flashes seemed to convey some sort of code. The beam was very narrow and headed for the sky. Although one might think that the light source was tiny, its intensity was remarkable. What it could be among the flowers emitting this kind of code and to whom would it be directed? The host, unable to go out and see what it was all about, tried to forget it and went to bed on the upper floor of the house. Next morning, he was awakened by a loud noise, or a kind of buzz. It was ten o'clock in the morning. He h...

Flowers And were rained flowers and rivers of butterflies overflowed. The heavens came down to earth and the earth was, for some time, happy. Flores Y llovieron flores y se desbordaron ríos de mariposas. Los cielos bajaron a la tierra y fue, durante un largo rato, feliz.

Handkerchiefs 5 The evening surprised Tom near the coast. It was the first time he had seen the sea. He didn't really know how he got there, but he was thankful because the show was extraordinary. The sunset over the sea made him tremble. He missed the black hills among which his father had built his house, but the contemplation of that sunset helped him not to feel invaded by nostalgia. Suddenly he looked directly at the sun and one of the rays stopped in front of him and invited him for a walk. When he entered the ray, it moved at the speed of light. Tom, clinging to the electric and magnetic fields, whose values was not changing over time, saw what was around him as a still photo. There was no movement of objects and the time stopped. His thoughts also froze. Finally the beam stopped at the same point where he found it, and Tom came out of the beam and thanked it. Pañuelos 5 El anochecer sorprendió a Tom cerca de la costa. Era la primera vez que veía el mar. En ...

Bl ack hole Without realizing it, a black hole found itself with a superblack hole and didn't know what to do to avoid it. The superblack hole when he realized the problem of the black hole told him: -Don't worry, the space curves where I am, but it also curves where you are. If you manage to turn fast enough you will avoid falling into my bowels and you will keep turning around me forever. He did and now there are two holes, black and superblack are inseparable. Agujero negro Sin darse cuenta, un agujero negro se encontró con un agujero supernegro y no sabía qué hacer para esquivarlo. El agujero supernegro al darse cuenta del aprieto del agujero negro le dijo: -No te preocupes, el espacio se curva donde yo estoy, pero también se curva donde tú estás. Si consigues girar lo suficientemente rápido evitarás caer en mis entrañas y te mantendrás girando a mi alrededor eternamente. Así lo hizo y ahora son dos agujeros, negro y supernegro, inseparables.

Words If words could speak, they would reveal the secrets that allow a poet's feelings to reach the souls of those who listen. Words, made of nothing, both elixir and poison, fleeting, broken, sometimes a bridge, sometimes an abyss. Expressions of the soul. Palabras Si las palabras hablaran podrían decirnos los secretos que hacen que los sentimientos del poeta, a través de ellas, penetren en el alma de aquellos que escuchan.  Palabras, hechas de la nada, elixir y veneno, fugaces, rotas, a veces puente y a veces abismo.  Expresiones del alma.

Handkerchiefs 4 The small beings that the owner of those handkerchiefs had found came from a dark planet. A planet that was crossing the outer space millions of kilometers from its star, and did not revolve around its axis, always presenting the same face to the star. Beings were living in it who used the energy of darkness to live. For this reason, they were concentrating on the part of the planet that was always hidden from the star. One of the space-time discontinuities, which manifested themselves spontaneously, had sucked those beings and moved them to Earth, specifically to the bedroom of the owner of the handkerchiefs. The difficulty of access to the wooded peaks protected the secret of the king of the mountain, Tom's father. His son had been conceived by an immortal woman, and the structure of his DNA was the secret that no one knew. When he was older, his father tried to explain to him his nature and the prodigies he could live. Pañuelos 4 Los pequeños s...

God's Tears And every human being was a tear of God. And God wept in Aramaic, wept in Muslim, wept in Christian, and wept in so many other ways that the forces of the Universe came together to make his tears the best of his work. And so his tears wrote the story that always should have been: they rained on deserts, they pierced the most barren land, and they made life have a meaning. The sad tears, from those who were suffering, also watered the earth, and also bore wonderful fruits. And God thought that his tears were what kept him alive, and then he discovered that the tears were him, and that they were not separate from him, and that everything was imagination, because everything, even him, will eventually cease to exist. Las lágrimas de Dios Y cada ser humano era una lágrima de Dios. Y Dios lloró en arameo, lloró en musulmán, lloró en cristiano, y lloró de tantas otras formas que las fuerzas del Universo se unieron para hacer que sus lágrimas fueran lo mejor de...

The Harbour And they told me they saw her by the harbour. And they told me that she was asking for me all those who came across her. And they told her that I wouldn't come back, but every day she walked along the dock, asking, crazy. And I won't be able to come back to wipe away her crying, because I'm no longer in this world, and she knows it, but she doesn't know it. El muelle Y me dijeron que la vieron por el muelle. Y me contaron que preguntó por mí a todos los que con ella se cruzaban. Y le dijeron que yo no volvería, pero ella cada día paseaba por el muelle, preguntando, loca. Y yo no podré volver para enjugar su llanto, porque ya no estoy aquí, y ella lo sabe, pero no lo sabe.

Change When pain takes refuge in memories, don't let it escape. Cover the exit with resin and surrender to the present. Cambio Cuando el dolor se refugie en los recuerdos, no lo dejes escapar. Tapa con pez la salida y entrégate al presente.

Handkerchiefs 3 Tom's companions, though well fed by the darkness and safe, did not stop worrying about him. They were worried because of him. They had always known that Tom wanted to get out of there, but they had never thought he would dare. Now they were trying to imagine what might have happened to him. They did not know how he was going to feed and whether he would know how to defend himself from all the dangers lurking outside. Tom was experiencing the first reactions to the sun's rays. He had tried to find places where there was darkness to feed himself, but his new state was beginning to change his body's metabolism. He needed dark less, and the light was beginning to provide him with some energy. That's what he was thinking about when he suddenly found the nose of a huge cat looking at him with inquisitive eyes. Tom's small size amused the cat who tried to hit him with its front paw. Tom's scare was huge and triggered his first transformation. ...