The Bat of Stars and the Salt on the Lips

May is looking for the meaning of her existence avoiding love and romance, letting herself haunted by the desire to become a famous artist in whatever way she might be able to get there. But, life has tricky ways of showing one right or wrong so in spite of her choices she falls in love with Mike, a mysterious co-worker who carries the burden of a dark past.
"Compact Smokes or A book for children" is the pretext for writing this short-story. The idea emerged from a dark past of two people who suffered a lot before they met. It is still about May but not only - it is a start of a beautiful nightmare and a romance where I let the words follow the stream of consciousness as much as I could.