Twilight's Flash Fiction / Relatos cortos crepusculares

Handkerchiefs 11 It was impossible not to see that slender tower, the place where spirits were welcomed. Its extraordinary structure cast an immense shadow over the walls of the swangdoms, constructions which varied in shape and colour in the wake of the thoughts of the spirits who inhabited them. Thus, a multicolored space created by an endless number of swangdoms extended to the horizon, dotted with infinite colors changing the amber carpet that was the floor. The shadows that the pink light lent to objects and beings, were blurred until they disappeared when it came to spirits, so that his friend was not accompanied by any shadow. Tom entered with some apprehension when his friend invited him to go inside his swangdom, but as his eyes became accustomed to the warm luminosity of its interior, the peace that transmitted that living place reached the deepest of his soul. Pañuelos 11 Era imposible no ver aquella esbelta torre, el lugar en el que se daba la bienvenida ...

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.