Twilight's Flash Fiction / Relatos cortos crepusculares

Pluto The spaceship crashed into Pluto's ground. Someone cried on Earth. Someone who had put his dreams in the hands of one of the crew. Someone who went to Pluto to recognize the corpse, and there stayed with him to fulfill his dreams. Plutón La nave se estrelló contra el suelo de Plutón. Alguien lloró en la Tierra. Alguien que había puesto sus sueños en manos de uno de los tripulantes. Alguien que fue a Plutón a reconocer el cadáver, y allí se quedó con él para cumplir sus sueños.

Something Felt Wrong That Morning Previously published as “Spectrums”. A good breakfast helps me face the day with courage — especially when the coffee is strong and perfectly made. The waitress greeted me kindly, as she always does, and placed before me a cup of very hot coffee with milk and a freshly baked croissant. . That morning, I found myself watching a lady who had taken a seat not far from mine. As I observed her, something began to take shape beside her — an image identical to her own. The spectral double rose slowly from the chair. It walked toward me. It sat down at my side and whispered: "I'm in love with you. I'm not leaving you for anything in the world." It is a wonderful presence.  We live together now, and since that morning we have never been apart. When I see that lady at breakfast, I sometimes wonder how she manages without her spectrum. Aquella mañana algo no iba bien Publicado anteriormente como “Spectrums”. Un buen desayuno ...

Lake Garda A few months ago I bought a mansion near what was Lake Garda. It is a superb mid-seventeenth-century building, but some of its outbuildings did not meet the conditions of habitability, so the foundations of part of the basement had to be revised. During the first excavation, the workers found a small metal box in which some initials had been engraved. After trying to open it unsuccessfully, there was no choice but to break it. Inside there were several objects among which were discs about 10 centimeters in diameter. I didn't know exactly what it was about and I mentally asked the World Library. Immediately, all the information concerning those disks was reproduced in my mind. According to the information stored, these were memory systems that were used in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. I visually reviewed one of them and sent it telepathically to the World Library. Again, the images and sounds on that disc were immediately reproduced in m...

Extrasounds Katy, recovered from the shock of seeing and hearing Tom, didn't know where to start looking for his mates. As they fed on the darkness, she tried to remember places where they could have taken refuge from the light. When she was a child, her uncle confessed to her that tiny beings detected ultrasound signals that humans can generate. In order to generate these signals it is necessary to adopt a certain body posture and emit a sequence of intense guttural sounds. Thinking it could work, Katy did it so. That same night, when she was getting ready to sleep, she was alerted by a tap on the glass in the bedroom window. Extrasonidos Katy, recuperada de shock que había supuesto poder ver y oír a Tom, no sabía por dónde empezar a buscar a sus compañeros. Como se alimentaban de la oscuridad trató de recordar lugares en los que hubieran podido refugiarse de la luz. Cuando era niña, su tío le confesó que los seres diminutos detectaban señales de ultrasoni...

Her Eyes That morning I went to the garden to meet her. When I arrived at the greenhouse, the large leaves of the cove concealed most of her anatomy. Even so, I could see her eyes of intense gaze, inquisitive and sweet at the same time. Slowly I surrounded the cove and saved the space that separated us. I caressed her head, and her eyes, staring at me, became damp. I believe that at that moment she was saying goodbye. It had only been a few days since I had saved her life, although I could not prevent her from being badly wounded by a crazy sniper. She closed her eyes, and I cried heartbrokenly. For a few days she had been my panther, and her eyes had expressed it all. Sus ojos Aquella mañana me dirigí al jardín para encontrarme con ella. Cuando llegué al invernadero, las grandes hojas de la cala ocultaban la mayor parte de su anatomía. Aun así, podía ver sus ojos de mirada intensa, inquisitivos y dulces al mismo tiempo. Lentamente rodeé la cala y salvé el espaci...

Antigravity Waves When Tom and the wolves moved from Letha to the planet Gorga with the intention of rescuing magical beings kidnapped by the inhabitants of Gorga, they had to activate their shields against the antigravity waves coming from the planet. These waves were preventing them from approaching its surface. The shields were actually antigravity waves of greater intensity than those emitted by the planet and generated by the group through an effect of synchrony in resonance. This allowed them to reach the surface of the planet and follow the spider that had as destiny the centers in which the kidnapped beings were interned. Ondas antigravitatorias Cuando Tom y los lobos se trasladaron de Letha al planeta Gorga con la intención de rescatar a unos seres mágicos secuestrados por los habitantes de Gorga, tuvieron que activar sus escudos contra las ondas antigravitatorias procedentes del planeta. Estas ondas les impedían acercarse a su superficie. Los escudos eran r...

Communication Kathy saw that behind that device that moved its legs with amazing agility, a herd of wolves tried to climb into the cabin from which someone was directing the movements of the huge robot. And she thought she could distinguish between the dogs and a human silhouette. Immediately, the image was enlarged and she saw the features of a young man dressed in strange clothes and who seemed to be giving instructions to the wolves. Kathy could not interpret what she was witnessing. Nor could she identify Tom because she did not know him. She kept an eye on what she was seeing and suddenly in her mind she heard Tom's voice. -I don't know who you are. As you're looking at this, I know you have the box, but I don't know where my friends are. I beg you to contact them and return the box to them so that we can communicate. Comunicación Kathy vio que detrás de aquel artefacto que movía las patas con sorprendente agilidad, una manada de lobos intentab...

Customs At customs, they found in his suitcase the loves he had lost in his youth. A security officer confiscated them. Now he can no longer find the memories that once led him back to the happiness he had once known. He is hollow. Aduana En la aduana, encontraron en su maleta los amores que había perdido en su juventud. Un agente de seguridad se los confiscó. Ahora ya no puede encontrar los recuerdos que lo devolvían a la felicidad que una vez conoció. Está vacío.

The Doorbell We were having dinner at home when the doorbell rang. It was death. I stayed calm because the door was locked and I couldn't get in. We were protected. Soon I discovered that death, although it rings the doorbell to warn us of its arrival, does not need us to open the door to be able to enter. Death is inside us. El timbre Estábamos cenando en casa cuando sonó el timbre de la puerta. Era la muerte. Yo me quedé tranquilo porque la puerta estaba cerrada con llave y no podía entrar. Estábamos protegidos. Al poco rato descubrí que la muerte, aunque llame al timbre de casa para avisarnos de su llegada, no necesita que le   abramos la puerta para entrar. Está dentro de nosotros.

Pañuelos Aquellos pañuelos habían estado abandonados en un baúl durante mucho tiempo. Alguien abrió un día el baúl y los encontró allí, inmaculados. Al cogerlos, un papelito del tamaño de una tarjeta de visita cayó al suelo y en él se podía leer: ‘Apartado de correos número 212. Clave: amapola’ Cuando abrieron la taquilla se encontraron una libreta muy gastada y una pequeña caja metálica. El primer impulso fue abrir la caja, y la sorpresa fue encontrar unos seres diminutos con forma humana que saludaban eufóricamente a sus salvadores. La libreta era un diario, y su autor había descrito con todo lujo de detalles cuándo y cómo descubrió a esos seres, que se alimentaban de la oscuridad, y su relación con ellos durante años.                                    oooooooooo0oooooooooooooo Pequeños seres Gracias a los apuntes que aparecían en el diario, se supo que a estos ...