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Irene Waters
Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist
I began my working career as a reluctant potato peeler whilst waiting to commence my training as a student nurse. On completion I worked mainly in intensive care/coronary care; finishing my hospital career as clinical nurse educator in intensive care. A life changing period as a resort owner/manager on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu was followed by recovery time as a farmer at Bucca Wauka. Having discovered I was no farmer and vowing never again to own an animal bigger than myself I took on the Barrington General Store. Here we also ran a five star restaurant. Working the shop of a day 7am - 6pm followed by the restaurant until late was surprisingly more stressful than Tanna. On the sale we decided to retire and renovate our house with the help of a builder friend. Now believing we knew everything about building we set to constructing our own house. Just finished a coal mine decided to set up in our backyard. Definitely time to retire we moved to Queensland. I had been writing a manuscript for some time. In the desire to complete this I enrolled in a post grad certificate in creative Industries which I completed 2013. I followed this by doing a Master of Arts by research graduating in 2017. Now I live to write and write to live.
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Operating in a Chemo Fog
As if life doesn’t become hard enough with the effects of chemo it also makes functioning difficult, as though you are operating in a fog. I have since found out this is how pregnant women feel but having never been … Continue reading
Dressed up on the Nile: Funny: Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge
Roger is not into dressups and neither of us is in to spending money on things that we will never use again but we couldn’t be the only ones from our group not to dress up. I determined I would … Continue reading
Pick a word July 2018 Yr 3: Thursday’s Special
Each Month Paula gives us five words that we can depict with an image. You can pick one word or all five using one photo or more. The words this month are: canicular, splash, feathered, marine, scenic. Canicular – had me stumped. Sirius – the dog … Continue reading
Genie in a Bottle: Cee’s Odd Ball Challenge
In response to Cee’s Odd Ball Challenge
Cartons of Crystal: Friday Fictioneers
Sarah stood looking at the packing cartons. Two held kitchen ware, one a dinner service, eight were books, three office, one clothes whilst the remaining eighteen boxes were marked crystal. Why had she kept all this crystal? They never used … Continue reading
The Mexican Standoff: Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers
The man on the sidewalk stared at my window. I don’t know how long he’d been there when I first saw him at 9am, yesterday. From then I stayed in full sight of him. Neither of us moved a muscle. … Continue reading
Throwing a line: 99 Word Flash Fiction
“Don’t you love being a pensioner?” ” Why? For the cheap public transport?” “Absolutely. Where are we going today?” “Let’s go on the Sunshine Coast Line.” “That’s a long time in the train. What about something closer to home. We … Continue reading
Unwanted Dental Advances: Three Line Tales
“Harry’s jaw was rotten but the dentist had a a new technique to replace it using shark jaw. The benefit is he’ll just keep on replacing teeth as they fall out.” “What hope have we now? He was already a … Continue reading
Finely Tuned: Flash Fiction for the Purposeful Practitioner
“I’m so excited,” Rebecca said.”I’ve never been to a native performance in an authentic setting. I can’t wait for the music to begin. Not long after they sat a long haired man wearing a colourful red and yellow blanket sat … Continue reading
Asking a Question: Three Line Tales
“Siri tell me where I want to go.” ” You were saying…… Siri cannot help with that question.” “I traded in my semi-intelligent phone to get a smart phone that turns out to be not so smart.” Thank you to … Continue reading
Reflections and Nightmares- Irene A Waters (writer and memoirist) 