Category Archives: Carrot Ranch

Time and Memory: Part 2

Posted on February 24, 2022 by Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist

Part 1 is here. where I asked : In remembering, I too am overcoming the dimensions of time and space but do I have any interaction with the places I travel to or are those memories just visions of the … Continue reading →

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Out and About Where I live: Noosa National Park Hell’s Gate to Day area via Coastal track

Posted on February 18, 2022 by Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist

From Hell’s Gate we returned via the Coastal Walk, a 2.7 km walk. This track is vastly different to the Tanglewood Track and varies in difficulty from easy with wheelchair access (approx 1 km ), and moderate fitness required for … Continue reading →

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Week in Review: Week 6

Posted on February 12, 2022 by Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist

What kind of a week have you had? I’ve had a busy week but an uneventful week. I had a lovely day on Monday when I took myself off to Hastings Street for a couple of hours taking photographs. As … Continue reading →

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Creative Block

Posted on February 3, 2022 by Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist

This post should have come out yesterday but my head refused to deliver. I had not one creative thought to be found. Indeed I had no thought at all. Where could I get my inspiration from. I half heartedly looked … Continue reading →

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Week in Review: Week 4

Posted on January 29, 2022 by Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist

Week 4 and I’m starting to feel like my old self. The passion has returned. Roger has found that he can have treatment in Cairns which will give us up to six – eight weeks that we can be away. … Continue reading →

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His first and only: 99 word flash fiction

Posted on August 18, 2020 by Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist

Unaware of the steps his momentum sent him flying through the air, arms and legs akimbo. The letter he’d been reading floating gently in the breeze behind him. His thoughts were those of a drowning man. This is what it … Continue reading →

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Her Crowning Glory: 99 Word Flash Fiction

Posted on August 4, 2020 by Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist

“I need a bathroom quick. “Ahhhhhhh.” Cramp.” He guided his wife to the toilet block worrying about food poisoning. As he looked beads of perspiration dotted her brow and her crowning glory became wet and lank. “Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!” His strong grip … Continue reading →

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Survival: Scream inside my Heart: 99 Word Flash Fiction

Posted on July 21, 2020 by Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist

I walk, away from people on the edge of the park. I need to be alone. I can’t trust myself if I have to speak to someone. The tears I keep well hidden at home are always close to the … Continue reading →

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Blossoms for my lady: 99 Word Flash Fiction

Posted on July 7, 2020 by Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist

Sometimes Jess brought her flowers. Unexpectedly for no reason. ” A blossom for a blossom” he’d say. He brought her happiness. Occasionally Jess would tell her he had meant to buy her flowers but….. She always forgave him. The intent … Continue reading →

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I got life: 99 Word flash Fiction

Posted on June 30, 2020 by Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist

At sixty the doctor said, “Prepare to die.” Not ready for death she followed orders special diet, multiple pills ingested. At seventy the doctor said, ” Carry on. Increase these pills breathlessness will be gone.” All good, she thought I … Continue reading →

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