Twilight's Flash Fiction / Relatos cortos crepusculares

Handkerchiefs 10 Tom never ceased to be surprised by the experiences he was living. His father had also warned him of the dangers of his desires. He should learn to control his desires, because they would become reality. Thus, Tom, without realizing it, remembered his friend, the person who saved his life and his companions and who was no longer in this world. He was again surprised by the ray of light that invited him into it. Tom agreed to his request and closed his eyes. Suddenly he was invaded by an intense smell of violets. When he opened them, he found himself in front of his friend, the one with the handkerchiefs. An intense emotion appeared in his eyes. Then he learned that this world is a place of passage, and that the spirits of those who leave it populate distant planets. The ray of light had transported him instantly to that planet where the perfume of violets and the pink light of the horizon welcome those who, like him, escape from the second world. Pañuelo...

Handkerchiefs 9 It was a cold, rainy night. Katy was driving slowly. She was on her way back from the supermarket when her cell phone rang. She answered the call and someone told her that her uncle had just died under strange circumstances. Sadness and amazement. Without passing by her house she went to her uncle's house on the other side of the city. She remembered that they had not seen each other for years. Her uncle had always been a little strange, and she had never guessed why. She climbed the stairs to the first floor and two police officers flanked the front door to the house. Coming from the inside was the loud voice of someone in charge of the case. One of the officers entered to warn superintendent she was there, and then the superintendent went out and Katy told him who she was. Without a comment, the commissioner took her to the bedroom. Her uncle's body, covered with a sheet, was on the bed. Nearby was an open trunk and someone had taken out part of its con...

Handkerchiefs 8 That was the beginning of thirty years of friendship. He did not confess to anyone that extraordinary and long relationship, and so that his friends would stay safe when he was passed away, he thought of confining them in a box in a post office box. During those thirty years he knew that they were extraordinary beings whose fundamental characteristic was the sacrifice for others and the importance that friendship had for them, something that is not often given among human beings. They lived at his home all that time, always trying to communicate with the beings on their planet. Meanwhile, moments of melancholy and sadness gave way to hope and kind confidences, to the extraordinary stories of their lives, far away, on that cold and dark planet, but at the same time, the planet was their sweet home. Pañuelos 8 Aquello fue el principio de treinta años de amistad. No le confesó a nadie aquella extraordinaria y larga relación, y para que sus amigos se mant...

Handkerchiefs 7 He ran down the stairs and approached the hole. Remains of primroses were scattered everywhere, and the land on which he had planted them had disappeared. Next to the remains of the flowers were metal fragments and bits of crystals. He could also see a small hole in the center of the hole. When he tried to enlarge the hole with a small shovel, he discovered that there was a corrugated tube that should not be there. When he tried to extract it, a very weak cry for help made him stop. He didn't know what to do when he saw a small being asking for help coming out of the tube. He thought he hadn't woken up yet and that it was all a dream, but his insistence on asking for his help brought him back to reality. He stretched out his hand and that being climbed up to his palm and told him that in the subsoil there were installations in which other beings like him took refuge. Pañuelos 7 Bajó atropelladamente las escaleras y se acercó al socavón. Había ...

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 could tell us the secrets that make the poet's feelings, through them, penetrate the soul of those who listen. Words, made of nothing, elixir and poison, fleeting, broken, sometimes bridge and sometimes 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...