BURN
Jackson was making coffee. The morning news blared and the kitchen smelled like toast. Gala, in thick woolen socks, came in, making no...
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Camila Hamel
- Nov 20
- 1 min
From The Missing Crab Diaries
A Fleeting Encounter It was tiny. A sandy, marigold flower petal caught in my hair, bright yellow, floating on the breeze from...
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Camila Hamel
- Nov 4
- 7 min
Author Interview Series: ROPPOTUCHA GREENBERG
Getting by in Tligolian is a clever, beguiling novella that weaves its way through an elusive city, encountering knotty intersections of...
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Camila Hamel
- Oct 31
- 3 min
False Friends
Where are my true cognates, mate? As a language learner and teacher, I am endlessly fascinated by the way words that look the same do not...
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Camila Hamel
- Oct 22
- 6 min
A conversation with Voima Oy
I found Voima Oy on Twitter about a year ago, and have a soft spot for the world she creates in her stories. She is a writer of...
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Camila Hamel
- Oct 15
- 2 min
Soif
"To experience thirst one has to be alive" Review of Amélie Nothomb's 2019 novel. In Amélie Nothomb’s book, Soif (2019), she asks us to...
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Camila Hamel
- Oct 6
- 1 min
100 words
Not 99. Not 101. Five minutes in my life. Dwellings The rock at Bandolier was indeed soft. I looked out over the dugouts dotting the face...
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Camila Hamel
- Aug 31
- 3 min
How I Became A Plant Person
Caring for plants and helping them to thrive can be challenging. Especially when you dont know what you're doing, especially when YouTube...
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Camila Hamel
- Jul 27
- 2 min
Lip balm
THE ART OF FLASH FICTION SUBSTACK PROMPTS: PEPPER · GOLDEN LAB · PECULIAR · LIP BALM · RAIN · CEMETERY · THEME: NEW FRIENDSHIP SAVES...
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Camila Hamel
- Jul 26
- 1 min
String Thing
Here's an excerpt of the first in a new series of small animations I'm doing. Rough AF. Just a sketch.
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Camila Hamel
- Jul 19
- 2 min
DARK AI
WERNER HERZOG VOICES AN A.I. POET IN NEW AUDIOBOOK Review 'I AM CODE: An Artificial Intelligence Speaks' to be published in August by...
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Camila Hamel
- May 25
- 2 min
Mulher Cigana
#CNF #Readers #readingcommunity #blog #thoughtoftheday
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Camila Hamel
- Feb 18
- 6 min
White Tail and the Fabulous Flashback
When I got on a northbound train to go to a paying gig at a summer camp, I wasn’t thinking about what had happened six months earlier....
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Camila Hamel
- Feb 14
- 1 min
My Bookish Friend
While I was reading, it struck me. This book of words, my book, was watching me, quietly observing my every sigh and microgesture, my...
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Camila Hamel
- Jan 23
- 4 min
The Toy of the Poor
I was about sixteen the first time I read this. I can't overstate what an impact it had on me. It gave me my first taste of prose poetry....
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Camila Hamel
- Jan 15
- 2 min
Film Review
THE PALE BLUE EYE, 2022 * * * Netflix Veteran detective Augustus Landor investigates a series of grisly murders with the help of a...
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Camila Hamel
- Jan 9
- 2 min
Book Review
Today, I'm reviewing a book that seems to polarize quite a bit. For what it's worth here's my take. I enjoyed Klara and the Sun. The main...
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- Oct 31, 2022
- 2 min
When Cooks Fall In Love
You are with them all the time. It starts out as a simple swap of favors because we all need a favor in the kitchen. Every cook has their...
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- Sep 15, 2022
- 2 min
The Book of Dissolution
When you come to the final impasse, it will signal you with a beacon flashing green and yellow in succession, two then one, then two,...
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- Jul 17, 2022
- 1 min
Welcome to the Blog
This is a space where I write about the things that are uppermost in my mind at any given moment. Here you'll find book and film reviews,...
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