C. Spencer
@bycamillespencer.bsky.social
Buddhist. Storyteller. Homosexual. Original Valley Girl. Word nerd.
Substack: bycspencer.substack.com/
Website: cspencerauthor.wixsite.com/books
Substack: bycspencer.substack.com/
Website: cspencerauthor.wixsite.com/books
• Workout routines
• Pilates
• Craigslist Missed Connections
• Whether bears actually sleep when they hibernate
• Joints vs bowls vs edibles: a practical guide
I sent them home with pies and edibles.
• Pilates
• Craigslist Missed Connections
• Whether bears actually sleep when they hibernate
• Joints vs bowls vs edibles: a practical guide
I sent them home with pies and edibles.
November 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
• Workout routines
• Pilates
• Craigslist Missed Connections
• Whether bears actually sleep when they hibernate
• Joints vs bowls vs edibles: a practical guide
I sent them home with pies and edibles.
• Pilates
• Craigslist Missed Connections
• Whether bears actually sleep when they hibernate
• Joints vs bowls vs edibles: a practical guide
I sent them home with pies and edibles.
Topics covered at Thanksgiving:
• Childhood trauma
• Boundaries
• Inflation
• ICE
• Racism and the fear of existence
• Camera settings and remotes
• Childhood trauma
• Boundaries
• Inflation
• ICE
• Racism and the fear of existence
• Camera settings and remotes
November 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Topics covered at Thanksgiving:
• Childhood trauma
• Boundaries
• Inflation
• ICE
• Racism and the fear of existence
• Camera settings and remotes
• Childhood trauma
• Boundaries
• Inflation
• ICE
• Racism and the fear of existence
• Camera settings and remotes
Field Notes
Observation: Blue jay perched outside my window for several minutes; did not make eye contact.
Notable traits: Unafraid of announcing itself. Discreet in its judgments.
Conclusion: A fellow queer.
Observation: Blue jay perched outside my window for several minutes; did not make eye contact.
Notable traits: Unafraid of announcing itself. Discreet in its judgments.
Conclusion: A fellow queer.
November 25, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Field Notes
Observation: Blue jay perched outside my window for several minutes; did not make eye contact.
Notable traits: Unafraid of announcing itself. Discreet in its judgments.
Conclusion: A fellow queer.
Observation: Blue jay perched outside my window for several minutes; did not make eye contact.
Notable traits: Unafraid of announcing itself. Discreet in its judgments.
Conclusion: A fellow queer.
November 15, 2025 at 12:04 AM
My daughter: If you could go back to any age, where would you go?
Me: 35. I was so pretty then, and I didn't even appreciate it.
Today's reframe: When life gives you a rainy day and a holiday weekend, pull out your camera and remind yourself that age 55 can be just as good as 35. Appreciate now.
Me: 35. I was so pretty then, and I didn't even appreciate it.
Today's reframe: When life gives you a rainy day and a holiday weekend, pull out your camera and remind yourself that age 55 can be just as good as 35. Appreciate now.
November 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
My daughter: If you could go back to any age, where would you go?
Me: 35. I was so pretty then, and I didn't even appreciate it.
Today's reframe: When life gives you a rainy day and a holiday weekend, pull out your camera and remind yourself that age 55 can be just as good as 35. Appreciate now.
Me: 35. I was so pretty then, and I didn't even appreciate it.
Today's reframe: When life gives you a rainy day and a holiday weekend, pull out your camera and remind yourself that age 55 can be just as good as 35. Appreciate now.
Sometimes love starts like this: A shared table. A word left uncorrected. And someone who doesn’t look away.
Milk for Breakfast is a queer serial about the long breath before closeness.
Part 9 is live. The one where the title finally makes sense.
open.substack.com/pub/bycspenc...
Milk for Breakfast is a queer serial about the long breath before closeness.
Part 9 is live. The one where the title finally makes sense.
open.substack.com/pub/bycspenc...
November 7, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Sometimes love starts like this: A shared table. A word left uncorrected. And someone who doesn’t look away.
Milk for Breakfast is a queer serial about the long breath before closeness.
Part 9 is live. The one where the title finally makes sense.
open.substack.com/pub/bycspenc...
Milk for Breakfast is a queer serial about the long breath before closeness.
Part 9 is live. The one where the title finally makes sense.
open.substack.com/pub/bycspenc...
Let the ex miss the version of you she mistreated.
Let the friend show up with takeout and moral clarity.
Let the maybe be a yes.
Milk for Breakfast, Part 8.
Queer. Serial. Complicated.
Start with Part 8 or binge from the beginning: bycspencer.substack.com
#LGBT #Serial #Fiction
Let the friend show up with takeout and moral clarity.
Let the maybe be a yes.
Milk for Breakfast, Part 8.
Queer. Serial. Complicated.
Start with Part 8 or binge from the beginning: bycspencer.substack.com
#LGBT #Serial #Fiction
October 31, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Let the ex miss the version of you she mistreated.
Let the friend show up with takeout and moral clarity.
Let the maybe be a yes.
Milk for Breakfast, Part 8.
Queer. Serial. Complicated.
Start with Part 8 or binge from the beginning: bycspencer.substack.com
#LGBT #Serial #Fiction
Let the friend show up with takeout and moral clarity.
Let the maybe be a yes.
Milk for Breakfast, Part 8.
Queer. Serial. Complicated.
Start with Part 8 or binge from the beginning: bycspencer.substack.com
#LGBT #Serial #Fiction
The smallest gestures have started to mean too much.
A cider tasting shouldn’t feel this charged—but it does. Milk for Breakfast, Part 7 keeps them circling what neither will name.
open.substack.com/pub/bycspenc...
#Queer #Fiction #Serial #Novel
A cider tasting shouldn’t feel this charged—but it does. Milk for Breakfast, Part 7 keeps them circling what neither will name.
open.substack.com/pub/bycspenc...
#Queer #Fiction #Serial #Novel
October 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The smallest gestures have started to mean too much.
A cider tasting shouldn’t feel this charged—but it does. Milk for Breakfast, Part 7 keeps them circling what neither will name.
open.substack.com/pub/bycspenc...
#Queer #Fiction #Serial #Novel
A cider tasting shouldn’t feel this charged—but it does. Milk for Breakfast, Part 7 keeps them circling what neither will name.
open.substack.com/pub/bycspenc...
#Queer #Fiction #Serial #Novel
When the quiet sets in, the past has a way of finding its way back.
Milk for Breakfast, Part 6, out now.
open.substack.com/pub/bycspenc...
#LGBTQ
#WritingCommunity
Milk for Breakfast, Part 6, out now.
open.substack.com/pub/bycspenc...
#LGBTQ
#WritingCommunity
October 17, 2025 at 8:26 PM
When the quiet sets in, the past has a way of finding its way back.
Milk for Breakfast, Part 6, out now.
open.substack.com/pub/bycspenc...
#LGBTQ
#WritingCommunity
Milk for Breakfast, Part 6, out now.
open.substack.com/pub/bycspenc...
#LGBTQ
#WritingCommunity
She said, “Tell me when to stop.”
I didn’t.
Milk for Breakfast: Part 5 just dropped.
open.substack.com/pub/bycspenc...
#SerialFiction #QueerRomance #OngoingNovel #LGBTQFiction
I didn’t.
Milk for Breakfast: Part 5 just dropped.
open.substack.com/pub/bycspenc...
#SerialFiction #QueerRomance #OngoingNovel #LGBTQFiction
October 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
She said, “Tell me when to stop.”
I didn’t.
Milk for Breakfast: Part 5 just dropped.
open.substack.com/pub/bycspenc...
#SerialFiction #QueerRomance #OngoingNovel #LGBTQFiction
I didn’t.
Milk for Breakfast: Part 5 just dropped.
open.substack.com/pub/bycspenc...
#SerialFiction #QueerRomance #OngoingNovel #LGBTQFiction
“Do you always study people this closely?”
“Only when I’m curious.”
Installment 4 is up now.
Read Milk for Breakfast at:
bycspencer.substack.com/p/milk-for-b...
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“Only when I’m curious.”
Installment 4 is up now.
Read Milk for Breakfast at:
bycspencer.substack.com/p/milk-for-b...
Like. Subscribe. Share.
October 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
“Do you always study people this closely?”
“Only when I’m curious.”
Installment 4 is up now.
Read Milk for Breakfast at:
bycspencer.substack.com/p/milk-for-b...
Like. Subscribe. Share.
“Only when I’m curious.”
Installment 4 is up now.
Read Milk for Breakfast at:
bycspencer.substack.com/p/milk-for-b...
Like. Subscribe. Share.
You ever have someone walk into a room and everything recalibrates? Yeah. That.
Installment three is out now.
The drama continues in Milk for Breakfast → bycspencer.substack.com/p/milk-for-b...
Installment three is out now.
The drama continues in Milk for Breakfast → bycspencer.substack.com/p/milk-for-b...
September 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
You ever have someone walk into a room and everything recalibrates? Yeah. That.
Installment three is out now.
The drama continues in Milk for Breakfast → bycspencer.substack.com/p/milk-for-b...
Installment three is out now.
The drama continues in Milk for Breakfast → bycspencer.substack.com/p/milk-for-b...
September 23, 2025 at 8:13 AM
The back road always smells like a clear mind and a hint of smoke from a burn pile, sun baked and faintly sweet. You put on Freebird, windows down, volume high enough to rattle loose change in the console. A green John Deere crawls ahead, sunlight blinding. And for a while, you’re untouchable.
September 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The back road always smells like a clear mind and a hint of smoke from a burn pile, sun baked and faintly sweet. You put on Freebird, windows down, volume high enough to rattle loose change in the console. A green John Deere crawls ahead, sunlight blinding. And for a while, you’re untouchable.
• Wet hair pulled into a loose knot and called effortless.
• The stray cat that napped on the porch like it belonged.
• The smell of sunscreen mixing with late-summer blooms.
• Stringed patio lights that made everything look cinematic.
• Pretending the sprinkler spray was champagne.
• The stray cat that napped on the porch like it belonged.
• The smell of sunscreen mixing with late-summer blooms.
• Stringed patio lights that made everything look cinematic.
• Pretending the sprinkler spray was champagne.
September 7, 2025 at 9:45 AM
• Wet hair pulled into a loose knot and called effortless.
• The stray cat that napped on the porch like it belonged.
• The smell of sunscreen mixing with late-summer blooms.
• Stringed patio lights that made everything look cinematic.
• Pretending the sprinkler spray was champagne.
• The stray cat that napped on the porch like it belonged.
• The smell of sunscreen mixing with late-summer blooms.
• Stringed patio lights that made everything look cinematic.
• Pretending the sprinkler spray was champagne.
• Grass stains we didn’t bother to scrub out.
• Cold fruit eaten over the sink.
• Sunglasses that made us feel like we just skipped class and got away with it.
• Yogurt turned lavender from too many blueberries.
• Picking wildflowers for the table, too delicate to last.
• Cold fruit eaten over the sink.
• Sunglasses that made us feel like we just skipped class and got away with it.
• Yogurt turned lavender from too many blueberries.
• Picking wildflowers for the table, too delicate to last.
September 7, 2025 at 9:45 AM
• Grass stains we didn’t bother to scrub out.
• Cold fruit eaten over the sink.
• Sunglasses that made us feel like we just skipped class and got away with it.
• Yogurt turned lavender from too many blueberries.
• Picking wildflowers for the table, too delicate to last.
• Cold fruit eaten over the sink.
• Sunglasses that made us feel like we just skipped class and got away with it.
• Yogurt turned lavender from too many blueberries.
• Picking wildflowers for the table, too delicate to last.
Little pleasures we’ll miss in October:
• Nights when distant fireworks felt romantic.
• Ice cubes clinking louder than the conversation.
• One more frozen margarita because the heat hadn’t left yet.
• Nights when salad counted as dinner.
• Classic Vans without socks because the rules were off.
• Nights when distant fireworks felt romantic.
• Ice cubes clinking louder than the conversation.
• One more frozen margarita because the heat hadn’t left yet.
• Nights when salad counted as dinner.
• Classic Vans without socks because the rules were off.
September 7, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Little pleasures we’ll miss in October:
• Nights when distant fireworks felt romantic.
• Ice cubes clinking louder than the conversation.
• One more frozen margarita because the heat hadn’t left yet.
• Nights when salad counted as dinner.
• Classic Vans without socks because the rules were off.
• Nights when distant fireworks felt romantic.
• Ice cubes clinking louder than the conversation.
• One more frozen margarita because the heat hadn’t left yet.
• Nights when salad counted as dinner.
• Classic Vans without socks because the rules were off.
The chandeliers.
The champagne.
The gilded trim.
The layered cake.
The silk gowns.
The velvet drapes.
The diamonds.
Enjoy your one day off.
The champagne.
The gilded trim.
The layered cake.
The silk gowns.
The velvet drapes.
The diamonds.
Enjoy your one day off.
August 31, 2025 at 12:29 PM
The chandeliers.
The champagne.
The gilded trim.
The layered cake.
The silk gowns.
The velvet drapes.
The diamonds.
Enjoy your one day off.
The champagne.
The gilded trim.
The layered cake.
The silk gowns.
The velvet drapes.
The diamonds.
Enjoy your one day off.