Night Without Stars

No fairy tale kingdom, rarely a happy ending, the players in "Night Without Stars" find that the dark beyond those wishes they made as children is all lfe has granted them - The Great Recession.

Rex Sexton is a Surrealist painter exhibiting in Chicago and Philadelphia and his writing has that illusory element. His award winning art has been exhibited in museums, televised on PBS, written about in newspapers, reproduced in magazines, and included in national and international exhibitions. His novel "Desert Flower" was called " ... innovative and original ..." by Large Print Review and " ... so skillfully devious it could have been written by Heinrich von Kleist two centuries ago in Germany," by Kirkus Discoveries. His short story "Holy Night" received the Editor's Choice Award in the Eric Hoffer Award competition and was published in Best New Writing 2007. His poems have been published in reviews such as Mobius, The Poetry Magazine, Willow Review, Mother Earth International and Edge and his recent collection of stories and poems "The Time Hotel" was described by another Kirkus review as "... a deeply thought-provoking ...compelling reading experience." His recent book of artwork, stories and poems, "X Ray Eyes," received acclaim by Chicago Art Magazine: "brings to mind the flattened forms and spaces and line qualities of Miro ... [and] the bizarre figures of Chagall." New short fiction publications include Paradoxism, Children, Churches & Daddies, r.kv.r.y. and Art Times.