Twilight's Flash Fiction / Relatos cortos crepusculares

Movement Today I have verified what I had been intuiting for a long time. Light does not propagate in a vacuum. It's instant. The first attempts to measure the speed of light, Roemer's experiments in 1676, when measuring eclipses of Jupiter's moon Io, did not take into account that space is not empty. The same happened with the Michelson-Morley experiment, in which the non-existence of the ether was demonstrated. If they had carried out the experiment in a space filled with water, simulating the movement of the Earth, they would have obtained the same result. The problem is that the experiment cannot detect something that is undetectable: movement. Or put another way, light ignores what we understand by movement. For light, movement does not exist. Movimiento Hoy he comprobado lo que venía intuyendo desde hace tiempo. La luz no se propaga en el vacío. Es instantánea. Los primeros intentos de medir la velocidad de la luz, los experimentos de Roemer en 1676, al medir los ecli...

The Hole 1 As the spacecraft approached Saturn, onboard instruments detected the presence of thoughts created by someone outside of the crew. Thoughts that were subtly transformed into concrete actions. The commander interpreted that those thoughts came from the hole. An idea that, like in The Odyssey, in which the sirens tried to convince Ulysses to lead him to a fatal destination, they tried to convince the crew to approach the hole. The event catcher system detected the way in which thoughts acted on certain crew members to promote a mutiny. El agujero 1 A medida que la nave se aproximaba a Saturno, los instrumentos de a bordo detectaron la presencia de pensamientos ajenos a la tripulación. Pensamientos que se transformaban sutilmente en acciones concretas. El comandante interpretó que aquellos pensamientos provenían del agujero. Una idea que como en La Odisea, en la que las sirenas trataban de convencer a Ulises para conducirlo a un destino fatal, pretendían convencer a los tripula...

 The Hole A thousand years had passed since astronomers discovered it, and that hole had always been there. It was a black cavity on the surface of Saturn. During all those years, they had seen that the hole devoured everything that appeared in its vicinity. In addition, he changed position with extraordinary ease. Finally, an expedition to the planet, equipped with all the mental force measuring devices, including an event trapping system, was going to discover its secret. El agujero Habían pasado mil años desde que los astrónomos lo descubrieran, y aquel agujero siempre había estado allí. Era una cavidad negra sobre la superficie de Saturno. Durante todos aquellos años, habían visto que el agujero devoraba todo lo que aparecía en sus proximidades. Además, cambiaba de posición con una facilidad extraordinaria. Por fin, una expedición al planeta, provista de todos los aparatos medidores de fuerzas mentales, incluido un sistema atrapador de eventos iba a descubrir su secreto.

Neglect He was careless for an instant and a feeling fell to the ground and broke. It wasn't just any feeling. He knelt down and began to pick up the countless bits scattered on the floor. A day passed and another day. A year passed and another year. And it happened to pass by the one who sees everything, and knowing that he would still have to be many years to complete his work, he took pity on him and asked him. "Is that feeling that has broken you so important?" "It is my mother's, which has been with me since she died and is the food of my soul to continue living". The one who sees everything gathered the pieces that were scattered on the ground and gave them to him. -It is my wish that this feeling continues to be part of you and that your soul feels protected until the end of your days. Descuido Se descuidó un instante y un sentimiento se le cayó al suelo y se rompió. No era un sentimiento cualquiera. Se arrodilló y empezó a recoger los incontables tro...

The D ream of Time You think you exist, but deep down you know that you do not — that you never have, and never will. Your existence is not real, because you are nothing more than an instant in the dream of time. El sueño del tiempo Crees que existes, pero en el fondo sabes que no eres, que nunca has sido ni jamás serás. Tu existencia no es real, porque no eres más que un instante en el sueño del tiempo.

Elysium Mons The ship came to rest gently on the arid soil of Elysium Mons, located at the coordinates 25 N, 213 W, of Mars. The duration of interstellar travel required entire families to embark to ensure that young crew members could replace the older ones in due course and thus ensure the success of the missions. On an experimental journey through the galaxy, the ship approached the solar system and established contact with the Interplanetary Brotherhood on Earth. In fact, there was a close collaboration between the different beings that inhabited the planets and satellites of the galaxy to preserve harmony and proper functioning between them. In collaboration with the Near Space Unit of Planet Earth, they managed to find out that the little boy, confusing Mars with Earth, tried to see his friend, whom he had met on his previous trip. They found his little green body in one of the folds of the ground. No one could explain how the little boy had left the ship without anyone or the se...

 Iguanodon One rainy day, an iguanodon stumbled across a Higgs boson. He was surprised by that coincidence, especially considering that their universes were very different and that time passed differently for them as well. As both had the gift of communication, the iguanodon paid its respects to the boson by bowing its head, to which the boson responded by taking off his hat. Everyone knows that on rainy days the bosons are prone to getting cold. Our iguanodon, who inhabited the Earth a million years after humans had disappeared, had studied their behavior and knew that they hadn't behaved well with the bosons. In the particle accelerators, they had been isolated so they couldn't communicate. In fact, the disappearance of the human race was a consequence of the revenge of the bosons. For all this, the iguanodon felt a certain sympathy for the bosons and expressed it to the Higgs boson. The boson thanked him for his gift and invited him to visit his world. At that moment, the do...

 Caged in My Feelings It all began the day I was born. My mother gave birth to me in the sea. As I emerged from her womb, the sight of the aquamarine waters and the powerful taste of the sea became forever engraved in my consciousness. The scent of salt and the endless presence of the ocean have never left me—not until today. My father held me by my feet and turned me upside down. My brain rebelled, and in that instant my conscious self became forever entangled with my subconscious in an Oedipal struggle that lasted until the day my father died. Afterwards, I was forced to fight countless battles in a hostile and merciless world. Years after my father's death, my beloved mother succumbed to a long and painful illness, leaving me utterly alone. Whenever life conspired to exhaust the little strength I had left to survive, the aquamarine sea and its salty breath returned to comfort me. At the bottom of the sea, among the turquoise waters where I had been born, I always found the peace...

Tenderness She was happy. Until her daughter was born. She loved her more than life itself. She cherished her. Protected her. Cared for her until she became a little woman. Yet she never allowed anyone to see her for all those years. But she knew that, from then on... she would no longer be able to protect her. Sweet, sensual lips revealed flawless, immaculate teeth. Her skin, soft as silk, awakened in her mother an endless tenderness. She had a beautiful face. Were it not for one incomprehensible anomaly. Nature had made a mistake. Her eyes, of infinite blue, had been born upon her forehead. Two thick folds of skin covered the empty sockets. And one single question kept returning to her mother's soul. Why? Ternura Era feliz. Hasta que nació su hija. La quería más que a su propia vida. La mimó. La protegió. La cuidó hasta que se convirtió en una mujercita. Sin embargo, nunca permitió que nadie la viera durante tantos años. Pero sabía que, a partir de entonces... ...

Time and Eternity I wandered through Eternity, and without realizing it, I came to the place where Time lives. When I entered, Time asked me about her friend Eternity. Eternity has always been separate from Time, but Time adores it. He spares no effort to get her attention, but Eternity, undaunted, ignores his claims, knowing they will never be together. El tiempo y la eternidad Deambulaba por la eternidad, y sin darme cuenta, llegué al lugar en el que vive el tiempo. Cuando entré, el tiempo me preguntó por su amiga la eternidad. La eternidad siempre ha estado separada del tiempo, pero el tiempo la adora. Éste no escatima esfuerzos para que ella le preste atención, pero la eternidad, impávida, ignora sus pretensiones, sabiendo que nunca estarán juntos.