Camila Hamel ~
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Tomorrow's flash story: two people caught inside an ontological knot, calmly negotiating their existence.🔥
#flashfiction @ Remote Control
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#flashfiction @ Remote Control
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To say that "The House of Guinness" is “Succession” meets “Peaky Blinders,” is a lazy, lazy comparison.
December 9, 2025 at 9:18 AM
To say that "The House of Guinness" is “Succession” meets “Peaky Blinders,” is a lazy, lazy comparison.
The hermit makes of the days what the heart speaks in #soliloquy. He does not rue the solitude. It is a country of many leagues all his. His peace is as deep as his erudition. His existence is a wilderness where beasts roam free. You will not pry him from it. He is too long in its hold.
#vss365
#vss365
December 8, 2025 at 11:24 PM
The hermit makes of the days what the heart speaks in #soliloquy. He does not rue the solitude. It is a country of many leagues all his. His peace is as deep as his erudition. His existence is a wilderness where beasts roam free. You will not pry him from it. He is too long in its hold.
#vss365
#vss365
The crowd of many colors swells, oranges, reds, greens and blues. I will leave you a trail of vibrant #magenta to follow. If you don't come looking, it won't matter, for another will take up this secret path, but I tell you, there is favor in this rainbow, and I will wear it in my dreams.
#vss365
#vss365
December 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Tomorrow's flash story: two people caught inside an ontological knot, calmly negotiating their existence.🔥
#flashfiction @ Remote Control
substack.com/@camilahamel1
#flashfiction @ Remote Control
substack.com/@camilahamel1
December 7, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Tomorrow's flash story: two people caught inside an ontological knot, calmly negotiating their existence.🔥
#flashfiction @ Remote Control
substack.com/@camilahamel1
#flashfiction @ Remote Control
substack.com/@camilahamel1
Bibliomancy is #augury by book. One only needs a library to practice it. Let your hand run across the spines until you feel a tingle and glow. Pick any book. Close your eyes. Open it anywhere. Read a sentence with intention: "I know it's wrong. It's what I can offer. It's not immoral."
#vss365
#vss365
December 6, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Before the wars that levelled our towns, before the drought that killed, and the pestilence that swept over us, taking all but the strongest, there were women who were considered #chic— when things like style and attitude mattered. When there was lipstick from Dior and leather from Fendi.
#vss365
#vss365
December 5, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Your #vespertine passion blooms with the rhythm of your heart. Systole and diastole thrum the blood; there, in the secret space where it scents the air. In a sacred space, where love turns us to beings of light and pulse. There, I wait amid scattered diamonds and violet petals. I wait.
#vss365
#vss365
December 4, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Your #vespertine passion blooms with the rhythm of your heart. Systole and diastole thrum the blood; there, in the secret space where it scents the air. In a sacred space, where love turns us to beings of light and pulse. There, I wait amid scattered diamonds and violet petals. I wait.
#vss365
#vss365
Oh man! Australia is banning social media for everyone under the age 16 from December 10. GREAT DECISION!. Those kids just got back their real childhood.
December 4, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Oh man! Australia is banning social media for everyone under the age 16 from December 10. GREAT DECISION!. Those kids just got back their real childhood.
Don't despair, folks! Furor will be back! Here are some behind-the-scene insights, a narration of chapter one with my music, and best of all: A POLL! Get in on the action. I'm taking requests! 🔥
Furor Scribendi - An Afterword
Confessions of a Serial Fiction Writer
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December 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Don't despair, folks! Furor will be back! Here are some behind-the-scene insights, a narration of chapter one with my music, and best of all: A POLL! Get in on the action. I'm taking requests! 🔥
I turn my gaze to you, Siren. Nothing can prevent your poetry from reaching me. You are at the far end of time, yet I see you vividly. You are crashing me against the granite shore of safe reasoning. Mad is this aching. Mad, your beauty. There's nothing #chivalrous in you or your beckoning.
#vss365
#vss365
December 3, 2025 at 8:10 AM
I turn my gaze to you, Siren. Nothing can prevent your poetry from reaching me. You are at the far end of time, yet I see you vividly. You are crashing me against the granite shore of safe reasoning. Mad is this aching. Mad, your beauty. There's nothing #chivalrous in you or your beckoning.
#vss365
#vss365
Who knew this would turn out to be such a profound reflection of society?
December 3, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Who knew this would turn out to be such a profound reflection of society?
The dead are alive in a cold and #aphotic dimension beyond time and material. No world, this. Nothing we could conceive of as habitable, just pure liminality. Nothing has a name, but that perturbs no thing. This is the wellspring of soul matter, the true home of every human past and future.
#vss365
#vss365
December 2, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Pitchfork, ye auld listmaker. pitchfork.com/features/lis...
The 100 Best Songs of 2025
Featuring Smerz, Amaarae, Geese, PinkPantheress, Justin Bieber, FKA twigs, xaviersobased, and more
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December 1, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Pitchfork, ye auld listmaker. pitchfork.com/features/lis...
The ideas 'soft' and 'weak' are often conflated. This is why a word like #suave is curious. The denotations: charming, confident and elegant. Not the same in Spanish, where this word is just soft. Weak/soft is blando. We English-speakers may not value soft enough—why we have the loanword?
#vss385
#vss385
December 1, 2025 at 11:37 AM
My flash story, 'The Gilox' is out just in time for CyberMonday! A little reminder that you should not obsess over what you will eventually break, outgrow or otherwise tire of anyway. 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 10:54 AM
My flash story, 'The Gilox' is out just in time for CyberMonday! A little reminder that you should not obsess over what you will eventually break, outgrow or otherwise tire of anyway. 🔥
Reposted by Camila Hamel ~
I’m lucky — I’ve met Maria because I got to read an early draft of this remarkable novel. I can’t wait for you to meet her next year!
Discover the story behind The Maternal Element: Kate Nicholls on Maria Mendeleeva, motherhood, and the powerful gaps in our histories. A beautiful read. ✨
Why I Wrote ‘The Maternal Element’
by Kate Nicholls Four years ago, I had never heard of Maria Mendeleeva, Dmitry Mendeleev’s mother. Wanting to bring a class on the Periodic Table to life, I searched for stories about Mendeleev’s chil...
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December 1, 2025 at 9:44 AM
I’m lucky — I’ve met Maria because I got to read an early draft of this remarkable novel. I can’t wait for you to meet her next year!
What could #matter more than the power to #illuminate a world gone dark? Not with literal light—there is neon and halogen to burn retinas to cinder. I would end the darkness of spirit. Love and learning is lost to hate and ignorance, to the poverty of minds that reflect nothing.
#vss365 #whispr
#vss365 #whispr
November 30, 2025 at 12:04 AM
What could #matter more than the power to #illuminate a world gone dark? Not with literal light—there is neon and halogen to burn retinas to cinder. I would end the darkness of spirit. Love and learning is lost to hate and ignorance, to the poverty of minds that reflect nothing.
#vss365 #whispr
#vss365 #whispr
After #learning of his own supposed demise, Grogan tried hard to correct the administrative error. Proving impossible, he thought he should instead take advantage of being "dead". He grew a moustache, bought a van, and left town. Crossed off everyone's list, he was free to savor solitude.
#vss365
#vss365
November 28, 2025 at 10:22 AM
This is an absolute horror story for any writer trying to get their work published. Kudos to Tom, who rode out the storm, and came out the other side with a hit on his hands. #nevergiveup
THREAD.
How my best book almost died.
I finished my latest novel in late summer last year.
It was my 15th book: most ambitious and enjoyable thing I’d ever written.
Shortly after that, my then publishers, Unbound, decided they would not pay me the money they owed me for it...
How my best book almost died.
I finished my latest novel in late summer last year.
It was my 15th book: most ambitious and enjoyable thing I’d ever written.
Shortly after that, my then publishers, Unbound, decided they would not pay me the money they owed me for it...
November 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
This is an absolute horror story for any writer trying to get their work published. Kudos to Tom, who rode out the storm, and came out the other side with a hit on his hands. #nevergiveup
You write with the impatience of one who awaits a breakthrough. You will not wait for the moon to weave its passion into a silver thread of reward. You startle all around you with the tenor of thoughts. #Reflection gives way to a furious #mesh of new ideas you bear witness to.
#vss365 #vssdaily
#vss365 #vssdaily
November 26, 2025 at 11:07 AM
You write with the impatience of one who awaits a breakthrough. You will not wait for the moon to weave its passion into a silver thread of reward. You startle all around you with the tenor of thoughts. #Reflection gives way to a furious #mesh of new ideas you bear witness to.
#vss365 #vssdaily
#vss365 #vssdaily
The egg was #timed because she demanded it. The date was to last twenty minutes, and as he arrived late, she told him only thirteen minutes remained. They would just have coffee, which took five minutes to get and pay for. This left just enough time to tell her goodbye and have a good life. #vss365
November 25, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Final chapter drops tomorrow! 🔥 This was fun, but Furor will be back, with a new story and new character. Enjoy
November 25, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Final chapter drops tomorrow! 🔥 This was fun, but Furor will be back, with a new story and new character. Enjoy
“The moon stays bright when it doesn’t avoid the night.” ~ Rumi
November 25, 2025 at 5:39 AM
“The moon stays bright when it doesn’t avoid the night.” ~ Rumi
It was #dash, the name we gave the flesh tone crayon in the sixty-four color set, # FFCBA4, called Peach because of the civil rights movement. It didn't seem peach to us, but we were only 5, and did't understand race relations. We sang while we colored: We shall overcome. We heard it on TV.
#whispr
#whispr
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM