ShamekaWrites
Queen of Fat Girl Romance. Heavyweight… literally. Oxford comma Supporter. Em Dash Enthusiast. Your Favorite Writer’s Favorite Writer.
- Reposted by ShamekaWritesThe Wright Museums Instagram page is HILARIOUS. Think The Office but it's the staff at a Museum for Black History. Better believe this is on my list of places to visit. Gentle Spades "I'm a veteran"
- Happy #FictionFriday my neighbors What y’all reading?
- The first man to explain the basic concept of football in a way that finally stuck with me had my undying love for those eight months we were together. Good times.
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- Be specific. Romance is specific.
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- It’s ice cream. Without question. I don’t even eat it often enough to miss it.
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- Reposted by ShamekaWritesHey, hey... Hey Grammy 🏆
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- Guys. I think it’s actually above freezing today. Wow.
- On chickens and people
- Reposted by ShamekaWritesBlack history.
- Y’all wanna see what I read in January? Of course you do 🥰🥰
- Durand won a Grammy and that’s a highlight of the day. He be singing his face off.
- Reposted by ShamekaWritesHappy Black History Month 🖤✨ Libraries and books are from perfect. The Dewey Decimal System is imperfect. But we will never forget the work of Dorothy B. Porter. She decolonized the Dewey Decimal System. She helped us belong in libraries, in books. We celebrate and thank you, Dorothy B. Porter 💜📚
- Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social Happy Black History Month
- Happy Black History Month people. ✊🏾
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- I’m hungry but I want to shower and put on my favorite pajamas first. Now all I need is motivation.
- Good lovers are good listeners… too many men are filled with hubris, overinflated by their unfounded ego and their ears are clogged. If you don’t listen to your lovers, there’s no way you satisfy them.
- I was on Zoom from 11-2, and then again from 3:15-4, and that is just not how you treat someone on a Friday.
- Remember I asked y’all about coffee table books? Wanna see my first one?
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- Shoutout to my dad, who got me this Hurston set. Each cover is done by a different contemporary Black artist.
- Absolutely
- Anyway, I can afford lunch so maybe I’ll treat myself this one time. What y’all having?
- Sigh. I had a goal for this year that I don’t think I’m meeting. I don’t think I can afford to anymore and I am very sad about it.
- Correct. You can learn a lot about a person by which cheese they make a grilled cheese sandwich with.
- It’s #WriterWednesday and it’s the God MC Rakim’s birthday. Celebrate a wordsmith. Write some words. Listen to Rakim. tidal.com/track/361301...
- Good morning! My latest newsletter is live! open.substack.com/pub/shamekat...
- How many Troy’s do you know, and how many of them are barbers? Every Troy I know cuts hair, I just realized that 🤔🤔
- I don’t know if I want to read another book or get up and do some work on this writer’s retreat I’m planning.
- Think I wanna make a pizza for lunch.
- Good morning
- I only love him if his liquor brown…
- Happy Fiction Friday people. What y’all reading?
- Both. I think they go well together and I love wearing red lipstick
- It’s annoying as fuck because I’m just trying to get pizza sauce and mozzarella cheese to go with my frozen dough and leftover pepperoni, and these people hold me up with their panicking. 😒
- Gotta say one (relatively minor) downside to remote work is I’m not off when I get snowed in lol.
