Twilight's Flash Fiction / Relatos cortos crepusculares

The river I went down to the river. There she was, resting her hip on a moon rock. I approached slowly, and as our breaths melted into a single heat, the fleeting trail of the unicorn crossed, breaking our thread of gold. I reached out to caress her face and ... she vanished, to appear far away, sitting on the back of the unicorn that finally took her away from that river and from me. El río Bajé al rio. Allí estaba, apoyada la cadera en una roca lunar. Me acerqué despacio, y a medida que nuestros alientos se fundían en un único calor, la fugaz estela del unicornio se cruzó rompiendo nuestro hilo de oro. Extendí la mano para acariciar su rostro y… se desvaneció, para aparecer lejos, sentada a lomos del unicornio que la alejó definitivamente de aquel río y de mí.

Coronavirus And the Lord did not know what to do. And the human beings prayed and asked for help. And the creatures of the earth wept over what was happening. The coronavirus itself, despite itself, was not aware of what it was doing. Coronavirus Y el Señor no sabía qué hacer. Y los seres humanos rezaban y le pedían ayuda. Y las criaturas de la tierra lloraban por lo que estaba ocurriendo. El propio coronavirus, pese a él mismo, no era consciente de lo que estaba haciendo. Коронавирус И Господь не знал, что делать. И люди молились и просили помощи. И существа земли оплакивали происходящее. Сам коронавирус, несмотря на себя, не знал, что он делает.

The Sphere The little beings, except Lilith, managed to escape from Huntington's nets and almost without knowing how, they reached the outside. Outside, they managed to hide from the eyes of two large robots guarding the building. However, they did not count with the exciting gases they started to expel, which made them have to come out of their hiding places. The robots then launched paralyzing rays and the small beings were immobilized. Shortly afterwards, they fell into a deep sleep. They woke up in an immense room devoid of everything except a huge sphere hanging from the ceiling. The illumination was very weak, as if their captors knew that the light affected their vital signs. At one point the sphere began to descend slowly, and when it reached the floor the lower hemisphere opened, projecting a luminous halo onto the surface of the room, dragging away small particles. The particles settled on the surfaces and on the skin of the small beings. La esfera Los pequ...

Hyacinths The hyacinths had spread their endless scent among the black shadows of death. Death could not resist, and the newly sleeping child awoke from what was to be his eternal sleep. Jacintos Los jacintos habían esparcido su infinito perfume entre las negras sombras de la muerte. La muerte no se pudo resistir y el niño recién dormido se despertó de lo que iba a ser su sueño eterno.

Hchac The eternal night of the deep space that penetrates through the enormous eyes that open to the abyss, contrasts with the light that emanates from the soft surface of the interior of the spaceship. Hchac comes to visit me. It is a chattering being whose head resembles that of a squirrel, the name of an animal as I have been able to rescue from the general archive, and the arms and legs are exactly the same as articulated arms of four cardan joints that can rotate 360 ​​degrees in all directions. Their movements are very agile and the precision of them is millimetric. But the most striking of its qualities is its ability to scrutinize the future. For that reason, never the general council take important decisions if they do not ask him before. He can answer questions such as how many sequences of ‘almich' flows, the ones responsible for make to loose the ship’s control, we will be able to find them when approaching a multiple system of stars and ‘verhuses’. 'Verhuse...

Karl Three trillion trillion seconds ago I was born on this ship and I will surely die on it. We share this habitat with beings from other regions of the universe. Karl is one of the watchers of the control. That's what we call the ship's complex drive system. We've been close friends since he saved my life billions of seconds ago. Four eyes around his head allow him to observe everything. He doesn't need to feed himself, and what might appear to be his mouth is a small slit he uses to directly assimilate the energy of the universe that we get from swallowing food. The ship has the capacity to carry about 100,000 individuals.   Its surface is soft and viscous, and it gives easily to pressure. It resembles the skin of whales, as described in the archives of eons ago, when my planet, Earth, existed. We traveled through galaxies and black holes, practicing the universal law of enthalpy balance. We have detected 16512 moods in human beings. Karl and his f...

Blue It was a blue lost in the ocean. Intense blue, histrionic, that every day represented its role in front of the dawn. The dawns and the blues have been lost, and only the black of the deep space remains. Eons await a new awakening with cliffs cleft by the sun, roses sculpted in space and tones of infinite colors. Azul Era un azul perdido en el océano. Azul intenso, histriónico, que cada día representaba su papel frente al alba. Las albas y los azules se han perdido, y solo queda el negro del espacio profundo. Eones esperan un nuevo despertar con farallones hendidos por el sol, rosas esculpidas en el espacio y tonos de infinitos colores.