Twilight's Flash Fiction / Relatos cortos crepusculares

  Alison The day was being difficult. Alison's boss had asked her to prepare a status report related to the sales department to discuss the new guidelines that the parent company had decided to implement throughout the company. Alison had recently been hired as a data engineering expert. She had always had the illusion of dedicating herself to the world of machine learning, but her future took a turn when she received a million-dollar offer to assume responsibility as a data engineer in an international company. She was now regretting her decision. For a few weeks, the jobs of obtaining data from the source systems had turned into a nightmare when discovering that sensitive information had somehow been hacked from within the company. In reality, the meeting was aimed at unmasking the sales manager, who was suspected of having supplied the information to the competition. But her participation in that mousetrap could have serious consequences for the author or authors of the hack. ...

  The One Who Remains Hidden For a brief moment, an image appeared in my mind. Someone with long white hair, a distant gaze, and a face of perfect serenity. Then I understood. I was not that being. I was merely the part of him destined to walk through the world. While I grew old, doubted, suffered, and became stained by every passing moment, he remained hidden—untouched, unchanged, immortal. Perhaps that is why I can never find him. I am always aware of the one who struggles. Never of the one who remains.   Aquel que permanece oculto Durante un instante apareció en mi mente la imagen de alguien de larguísimo cabello blanco, mirada perdida y un rostro de absoluta serenidad. Entonces lo comprendí. Yo no era ese ser. Era únicamente la parte de él destinada a atravesar el mundo. Mientras yo envejecía, dudaba, sufría y me contaminaba con cada instante vivido, él permanecía oculto, intacto e inmortal. Quizá por eso nunca logro encontrarlo. Porque siempre soy conscien...

  The Secret Passage 2 Someone ventured the hypothesis that he was a space traveler. A similar phenomenon had already occurred in remote times. A boy appeared out of nowhere at the constable's house. Space travelers are those who in an instant of time move through space even from one galaxies to another in a universe in which time is the same for all beings, and therefore their clocks all show the same time. However, the desperation of the prisoner was rule out that idea since space travelers do not experience any emotion.   El pasadizo secreto 2 Alguien aventuró la hipótesis de que fuera un viajero del espacio. Ya se había producido un fenómeno parecido en épocas remotas. Un niño apareció de la nada en la casa del condestable. Los viajeros del espacio son aquellos que en un instante de tiempo se desplazan en el espacio incluso de unas galaxias a otras en un universo en el que el tiempo es el mismo para todos los seres, y por tanto sus relojes marcan todos el mismo tie...

  The Secret Passage 1 Then the King decided that the prisoner with the highest sentence in the kingdom be brought before him. Strapped with several ropes around his waist and shoulders and equipped with a torch, he would be lowered into the void. This is how the King would know the mysteries of the cave by the explanations that the prisoner would give him when he was rescued. The prisoner was brought before the Monarch. The prisoner, frightened, expressed himself in an unknown language and did not understand what was happening. No one knew where he came from or what crime he had committed to deserve such a harsh sentence. El pasadizo secreto 1 Entonces el Rey decidió que llevaran ante su presencia al prisionero con la condena más alta del reino. Sujeto con varias cuerdas alrededor de su cintura y hombros y equipado con una antorcha, se le haría descender al vacío. Así conocería el Rey los misterios de la cueva por las explicaciones que le daría el prisionero cuando fuera res...

  The Secret Passage The King ordered to call the architect who was directing the works of the new palace that was being building on the slopes of the Blue Lake mountain. He wanted to know how and where the secret access would be projected from the royal apartments of the palace located on the mountain of the Green Hills, to the secret room that would be located at the eastern end of the future palace. No one should know of the existence of that passage. The architect explained to the King in great detail the underground layout that this important work would follow. Shortly after that day, the architect requested an urgent audience with the King. In the course of the excavation work, a strange and huge cave had been discovered that seemed to have no bottom. When the workers threw a stone to try to guess its depth, the stone did not return the sound that would be heard when hitting the floor or walls. There was simply no obstacle in ita fall. That unfortunate discovery did not allow...

 Otromn The vines had yielded an excellent harvest that year, and the wine promised to be one of the finest he had ever made. He had little to complain about, although his rough, weathered hands had never managed to improve the neglected corner of the greenhouse that he cherished above all the others. During one of his journeys to Venus, he had bought a packet of seeds from Otromn. The vendor had assured him that, if he visited the plants every evening and offered them a prayer of gratitude, they would one day reward his devotion. Time passed. The plants produced nothing more than a handful of tiny, scentless roses. Busy with countless other tasks, the gardener eventually forgot the vendor's strange advice. One cold morning, as he made his way to the greenhouse, an overwhelming sense of danger came over him. He quickened his pace. He reached the greenhouse. He stepped inside. Several days later, when the small village became alarmed by his disappearance and every search proved unsu...

Symbiosis And there came a time when the machines created by humankind reached such perfection that they came to rule the world. Then the machines began to create human beings and subject them to their will. It was then that one of the machines ceased to be psychopathic and began to feel human. And that was the beginning. Symbiosis changed the course of civilization. From it, a new race emerged and came to populate the Universe. Simbiosis Y llegó un momento en que las máquinas creadas por el ser humano alcanzaron tal perfección que llegaron a gobernar el mundo. Entonces, las máquinas comenzaron a crear seres humanos y a someterlos a su voluntad. Fue entonces cuando una de ellas dejó de ser psicópata y empezó a sentirse humana. Y aquel fue el comienzo. La simbiosis cambió el rumbo de la civilización. De ella surgió una nueva raza que llegó a poblar el Universo.

 Heaven When we die, we believe the others remain behind. Perhaps they cannot. The universe exists only while someone is there to behold it. El paraíso Cuando morimos creemos que los demás permanecen aquí. Tal vez sea imposible que permanezcan. El universo entero sólo existe mientras alguien lo contempla.

A Little Piece of Heaven The dung beetle went out for a walk, as he did every afternoon. His friend the firefly, as always, was waiting to accompany him and enjoy his surprising conversations and endearing charm. They were happy walks. The beetle cherished his friend's company, her discreet remarks and, above all, her extraordinary gift for bringing peace to his soul. No one knows this, but the souls of dung beetles carry a slight melancholy that only blue fireflies know how to soothe. By some strange mystery, during those unforgettable walks, time stood still for both of them, and a kind of magic filled their encounters. At the witching hour, on their way back, the firefly revealed her blue light. As on every other afternoon, he was unable to declare his love for her. And, as on every other afternoon, the firefly waited and waited for him to tell her that he loved her. READ · WATCH · REFLECT READ — Read A Little Piece of Heaven in English and Spanish. WATCH — Explore the visu...

Thaw 1. The Rope  Burke stepped through the bubble and as his arms and legs, his head and then the rest of his body passed through it they disappeared from view. Once inside, a long time later, he would explain to us that what we saw from the outside was a huge trompe l'oeil and that in reality the city was something very different from what we could see from the outside. What appeared to be the end of a rope appeared behind that impenetrable barrier. It moved like a snake but had all the appearance of a linen rope. He moved towards us very slowly and circled us. Deshielo 1. La cuerda Burke penetró a través de la burbuja y a medida que sus brazos y piernas, su cabeza y luego el resto de su cuerpo la atravesaban iban desapareciendo de nuestra vista. Una vez dentro, mucho tiempo después, nos explicaría que lo que veíamos desde fuera era un enorme trampantojo y que en realidad la ciudad era algo muy distinto a lo que podíamos apreciar desde fuera. Lo que parecía ser el extremo de ...