Camila Hamel ~
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Book Two's a done deal. Wrap party in progress. ✨ If you hurry, there's buffalo wings.
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Furor Scribendi Book Two · Part 7
Wrap Party 🎉 🥂
https://open.substack.com/pub/camilahamel/p/furor-scribendi-book-two-part-7?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1tfs3w
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I was hard-pressed to keep up with the days. How many of them had blurred and coalesced, colliding details jumbling in memory? I could not say. They ran together with repetition, like the
#blatant
attempt of one who would' pilfer meaning as well as time. Oh, I will break the clock face.
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about 3 hours ago
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Cruel Jack treated everyone with hostility and suspicion, so that no one understood what Jill saw in him, aside from his generous physical endowments. When she overlooked his
#beastly
blows they cried Shame! People blamed her even more than him. Then they got canceled—eventually both died.
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about 17 hours ago
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In time to the calling of the dove, I struck the longest note in the song of life. Sustained, as far as it would carry. And though
#mystified
by the gathering night, a love was born in the absence of sight—for a coda. Then, in the hour of the clearing mists, I humbly waited for the sun.
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The baby is drooling. He takes my hands to stand on my lap and do the
#bouncy
- bouncy game. I understand how after a few weeks of this, his leg muscles will be strong enough for him to stand on his own and take his first steps. How amazing is that?
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Book Two's a done deal. Wrap party in progress. ✨ If you hurry, there's buffalo wings.
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Furor Scribendi Book Two · Part 7
Wrap Party 🎉 🥂
https://open.substack.com/pub/camilahamel/p/furor-scribendi-book-two-part-7?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1tfs3w
3 days ago
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A summer dog, basking in the sun of a
#mountainous
region, waits for its master, who has left him behind. He does not understand why the man will not return. There is no one to feed or water him; his domestication is tragic, and being so remote, no one will leave his statue on this spot.
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4 days ago
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Here is a bucket of ice for you
xraylitmag.com/justin-isis-...
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JUSTIN ISIS RECOMMENDS - Neo-Decadence: A Wardrobe Tour
Relax, for the moment. Your enduring boredom with contemporary art, writing and poetry results not from the sirenic tug of allegedly competing media, but from the soporific stupidity/sincerity to whic...
https://xraylitmag.com/justin-isis-recommends-neo-decadence-a-wardrobe-tour/interviews-reviews/
4 days ago
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Cottony clouds under a straight razor contrail the neighbor sings as she hangs laundry Construction drilling in the distance The birdsong of late winter I don't know why, but the moment feels
#enchanted
. The ordinary vaults over some invisible threshold and quietly earns its sublimity.
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5 days ago
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6 days ago
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She sang the Diminium song, and the problem became
#miniscule
, ineffectual. She could have sung the Eradicum, but this was dangerous. The songs were potent, not to be misused—nor were voids allowed to stand. She took a breath, and the Burgeonat filled the continuum with opportunity.
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6 days ago
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No room in this train. Our knees
#kiss
, and we watch the landscape whizzing and changing from verdant wet to beige dry until the seaview fills our window. We stop. Sight gives way to sound. Seagulls cry and lime-colored parrots squawk, and people speak in a tongue we don't know. Salobreña.
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8 days ago
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Camila Hamel ~
X-R-A-Y Literary Press
8 days ago
this great story by Kai Broach is about meeting Julia Fishwell over & over & over...but Julia Fishwell is a different person every time. i think this story will stick with u throughout the day & get u daydreaming about yr own Julia Fishwell. read this !
xraylitmag.com/julia-fishwe...
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JULIA FISHWELL by Kai Broach
When I met Julia Fishwell, I was trying out a lot of different deodorants. A fungal infection had left my armpit skin itchy and brittle. The Old Spice I’d used since puberty was too harsh. All the new...
https://xraylitmag.com/julia-fishwell-by-kai-broach/fiction/
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We close out Furor Scribendi Book 2 with a heroic rescue and surprise capitulation. 🔥 You'll never guess who. 😆 Next week, you're invited to the wrap party! 🎉
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Furor Scribendi Book 2 · Part 6
The Grate Escape
https://open.substack.com/pub/camilahamel/p/furor-scribendi-book-2-part-6?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1tfs3w
9 days ago
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What a terrible
#lacuna
yawned before him, when he realized he was not the person he set out to be. Inside that breach, he asked not for forgiveness but understanding. Failure would not be failure if it served him. He saw himself, as if for the first time, and made peace with who he was.
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9 days ago
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Camila Hamel ~
The Bookseller
9 days ago
ICYMI: Building readership and safeguarding trust in books in an era of creator-led media and information overload emerged as central themes at the
#IPG
2026 Spring Conference 👇
#BookSky
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IPG Conference: Publishing rigorously researched non-fiction is 'key' to safeguard trust in books
https://ebx.sh/wlFJWh
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In the graveyard of my studio, a half finished painting sits in the
#dark
. I avoid looking at it on my way to the kitchen. I keep the studio door closed. 'When will I finish this' is a frequent question. I have done two others, and written a novel and three novellas in the meantime. Damn.
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10 days ago
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The civil alert system went off in every cellphone in Catalunya today in preparation for the 100-kilometer winds tomorrow. Schools and libraries will be closed! 🌬️💨🍃
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He felt out of
#touch
, and it was true, he had turned away from the endless background chatter that admittedly served no purpose. It made not a whit of difference who dominated the daily discourse, and that made him feel isolated. Till he found folk like himself, resuscitated and curious.
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This is 🧨🧨‼️
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Literary Agents Don't Read: How I Proved It, and Why It Matters
I didn't expect the data to be this devastating.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-165997075
11 days ago
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The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit
Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/03/jeffrey-epstein-violence-women?CMP=share_btn_url
11 days ago
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Have a horror piece~my first!~coming out on Endless Static. Here's what the cover letter said. 😂
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Camila Hamel ~
X-R-A-Y Literary Press
13 days ago
i love this story by Miklós Vámos ! it's about a group of carp in a crowded fish tank, dreaming of getting out to the idyllic world beyond (where they will suffocate & be eaten) translated from Hungarian by Ági Bori
@agiborimottern.bsky.social
a wonderful story !
xraylitmag.com/fish-on-the-...
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FISH ON THE SHORE by Miklós Vámos, translated from Hungarian by Ági Bori
Silence and semi-darkness inside the market hall. Only the moon strolls among the empty stands, with a shopping basket on its arm. Faint lights on the counters and their retractable shutters. Loose a...
https://xraylitmag.com/fish-on-the-shore-by-miklos-vamos-translated-from-hungarian-by-agi-bori/fiction/
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A hollow space marks where an
#ache
once was. The suffering is over, and you, suffused with a sensation of peace, the healing itself forgotten. Yet a memory of pain secretly converts to a fear of its return, and this too is overlooked for now. It will return someday, rampant and unpitying.
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It would come to this, forever: the world creaking, its
#bones
shaking, the prophets dancing with the skeletons of ideas no one fed. Make no mistake, we are going out ignominiously if we do not find something real to respect. It should start with home, with self, but debasement is easier.
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13 days ago
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Camila Hamel ~
Gréachán
14 days ago
My pale hands, once baptised in salt and spray, Now clutch at dust; O what a fool was I To think God’s temple stood in fields of clay! The sea was Scripture writ with giving eye: Lord, drown my pride, let me by the sea lie.
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Daniel Cummings - sporadic
14 days ago
is it real? that thing that used be your head turned half-pipe now home to guilt and shame doing anchor grinds and carving grooves in your skull while their
#pale
sister runs her hands along your thighs how will you know until you crack open the heart whether it is alive or dead
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Camila Hamel ~
The Bookseller
14 days ago
ICYMI: Liza Marshall of Hera Pictures, the film producer of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel Hamnet (Tinder Press), has secured the screen rights to Land (Tinder Press) 👇
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Maggie O'Farrell's Land to be adapted for the screen by Hamnet producer Liza Marshall
https://ebx.sh/ktcg3G
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There, a
#pale
bauble, a color-drained world gives us pause, struggling to recover a joy we only feel when balance tips back in favor of the deep red of pomegranates. When the kind gesture and the unstudied remark give us something to smile about, and not telegraph as a strategy.
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14 days ago
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It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong, said a man with
#blood
dripping down the side of his skull. He was quoting Voltaire, but the ICE droog didn't care. He didn't know Voltaire, and was too young to remember the song, "Don't Argue", Cabaret Voltaire.
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15 days ago
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16 days ago
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If it was your intention to
#wound
me, neither blunt words nor sharp looks suffice. You, who inspire no fear, no admiration, hold no candle to the people I love. You and your pale face, contorted in rage, puppet of your muse of hatred, have no agency here. Your sham power impresses no one.
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16 days ago
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There, the
#lambent
filigree clinging to the rocks waved greenly in the ocean surf so far from the surface. My clunky apparatus cleanly signaling a non-native vulnerability, my intrusiveness. But above, I would carry my allegiance to the down below; I vowed this to ferns and fish alike.
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17 days ago
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Chapter 5 is live. 🔥 Someone woke up on the wrong side of the dais. 🐉
open.substack.com/pub/camilaha...
17 days ago
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Two more chapters left in the current serial, 'Furor Scribendi, Book Two.' Next up: 'THE WRECK DIVER.' It starts in March and will run through til May, only on Substack. Details to follow! 💦 🌬️⛵🌊
18 days ago
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Was it not— This shape and shade, familiar, and yet unknown, an outline, a puff of air, cold to the touch—was it? No. Yes, a
#ghost
. The form of something passed but not gone. There, not seen but felt, and trapped, and so wanting, a deficit, so needing. It is pure desire unhoused, unwept.
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18 days ago
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Camila Hamel ~
Daniel Cummings - sporadic
19 days ago
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in that graveyard of desire among the broken bodies of fragile thoughts and tortured hands forming a bridge that lead nowhere i felt you even though you have the softest footprints where you can touch and not be felt you are that gentle curve that
#pain
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Naproxen for the
#pain
. Not that kind. —Bourbon, Coke. Not that kind. -—Chocolate, Sex. Not that kind. Hmm, this is beyond my expertise, beyond my understanding, but it doesn't surprise me. You were always complicated. You named me Dolores; means pains. You baked it into my life.
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19 days ago
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Interesting typeface from the 1930s. "Woolen, diapers, and women's undergarments."
19 days ago
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Of the
#soul
, one demands proof, existence being a thing seen or felt. Who has not been in a soulless place? Who has not felt the chill in one who moves no heart to exclaim, The animating fire sits high on the brow of this shining one? Yet, we disbelieve, and so drain the world of color.
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20 days ago
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The hardtracing of shadows raked across the table. It held things together, but imprisoned my thoughts in their consequences. Cocktail conundrums. You can rebel all you want, but when seized by a
#shadow
the tables turn on you, and the room spins. What was once solid laughs in your face.
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21 days ago
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Finishing the 6th chapter of 'The Wreck Diver' 🔥 Chapter one drops in one month. Tonight I start the series cover illustrations in watercolor. Very psyched. 😍
21 days ago
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Nothing is as it was, my dear friend. Estranged, your voice can no longer
#soothe
me where I sit remembering you. The city is much changed, taking itself out of context to amuse the tourists, moonwalking to Billy Jean, our fav places erased. Were you to return, we could start over fresh.
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21 days ago
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A little quote from chapter 3 of Furor Scribendi book 2, "Dangerous Liaisons."
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Camila Hamel (@camilahamel1)
A fool for love, for sure is our Furor.
https://substack.com/@camilahamel1/note/c-206334773?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=1tfs3w
21 days ago
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reposted by
Camila Hamel ~
Sophia Kouidou-Giles
22 days ago
Aryballos (made of glass). Blue oil container, yellow and turquoise zigzags. Found near Olympia, Greece, 6th - 4th B.C. Oil or perfume flask, glass, 7.2 cm high, at the J Paul Getty Museum.
#bookshelves
#writingcommunity
#GettyMuseum
#amreading
#amwriting
#CircleOfPeace
#AnUnexpectedAlly
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Camila Hamel ~
Antique and Vintage Book Art
22 days ago
Illustration from Walter Crane's Painting Book, London, 1889.
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Camila Hamel ~
Secret Life of Books Podcast
22 days ago
⭐ In
#GeorgeEliot's
Middlemarch, every major character is stuck in a labyrinth, the labyrinth of Middlemarch... and they keep getting lost and taking the wrong turns.
#SecretLifeOfBooks
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The long-distance train clacked across the frozen tracks, with a speed that made the joy
#thrum
in her chest. Away. As far as she could stretch her belief in freedom she would go. Go and go and not return to the room with the cracked ceiling, her way of tuning in the music of her soul.
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22 days ago
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Furor Scribendi Book 2 · Part 4 Stuart's laid up, Furor falls down, and the Murkmaid's tries to avert catastrophe. 🔥 It's here.
24 days ago
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When the
#quiver
was empty, the dagger blunt, his sword arm undone, he mounted an orphaned horse and took the mountain road that led away from the dying. From the heights he surveyed the field where his life was extinguished. He continued upwards forever grateful, forever chastened, forever.
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