DescriptionCopyright 2016 RC deWinter ~ All Rights Reserved
The Road of No Return During the last purge - when the Council decided it was time to clean out another third of the useless - they didn't, for some reason, kill us. Usually they do. We don't contribute, we only take. But this time they didn't. When they came to the hospital they took all us crazies who'd tried suicide and failed and resettled us on The Road of No Return. These apartments must've belonged to the entitled who'd fallen out of favor. It's a pretty nice place, really, or it would be if this was a normal world. But we've been condemned to passive attrition. I'm guessing there are some real sadists on the selection committee. I heard they even bet on who's going to be alive from month to month. We're free to come and go as long as we stay in our sector and the food truck rolls through on schedule; we stock up on what we need to get by 'til the next time. But we don't see any doctors and nobody's taking meds. It gets noisy and there're fights. Sometimes somebody gets even gets killed. And the balconies are tempting, too. The deathmobile comes by once a week to collect the bodies. I try best I can to keep it together, and so far so good. But I only walk down to the end of the street on really good days, because the only thing there is a huge chasm. When the voices start whispering I lock myself inside and crawl under the covers 'til they stop, because even though it's not much of a life, I really don't want to jump. Plenty do, and when that happens some new nut moves in. But I'm going to beat this game; I wasn't born to be somebody's bet. ~ copyright 2016 RC deWinter A dystopian view of a New Orleans neighborhood.
RC DeWinter, Fairfield, CT Member Since December 2008 Artist StatementHello and welcome to my portfolio on Imagekind. Here's a bit about me:
RC deWinter is a Connecticut writer/digital artist whose artwork has been published in many print and online journals, including, among others, The American Muse, Fine Art Photography, Poetry Nook, 2River View, Pink Panther, Official Feature Online Entertainment Magazine, Garden Tripod and also used as set décor on ABC-TV’s “Desperate Housewives." In 2013 Ms. deWinter she was one of six finalists for a Shorty Award, the national social media awards, in art. Ms. deWinter is honored to be the first digital artist invited to exhibit at the Arts of Tolland Gallery in Connecticut. Her 4-week solo exhibition was an unqualified success. Her poetry publication credits include The New York Times, Uno: A Poetry Anthology, 2River View, Another Sun, Pink Panther Magazine, Pilcrow & Dagger, Plum Ruby Review, Poetry Life and Times and numerous other print/online publications. If you enjoy my work, please spread the word, and thank you for stopping by.
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