Steve Kenny

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Steve Kenny was born in Chicago in 1961. He has worked as a newspaperboy, a busboy, a dishwasher, a janitor, a machine operator, a furniture mover, a dockman, a whiskey truck driver, an OTR driver, a medi-van driver, a UPS driver, a pile driver operator, a landscaper and groundskeeper, an ironworker, a roofer, a custom area rug maker, carpetbinder and highly-rated floor installer, and a cement mason.

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Smashwords Interview

What do your fans mean to you?
What? I didn't know I had any fans.
What are you working on next?
Having been laid off from my job this past Friday, I am now working on getting some of my stuff published here at Smashwords. I have upwards of 100 pieces from which to choose. Currently, I am not writing anything.

I am also looking forward to going back to school for some job retraining.
Read more of this interview.

Where to find Steve Kenny online

Books

What's A Slave Worth?
Price: Free! Words: 8,860. Language: English. Published: September 25, 2014 . Categories: Essay » Business, Essay » Author profile
Income inequality in America has never been greater. A timely piece that questions whether American slavery has merely been replaced with American wage slavery.
The Rape of the New Sabine/This New Colossus
Price: Free! Words: 370. Language: English. Published: July 13, 2014 . Categories: Essay » Political
A pair of protest poems, perfect for any occasion, but especially perfect any new Supreme Court rulings.
Christmas Eve On Bullshit Mountain
Price: Free! Words: 2,380. Language: English. Published: April 25, 2014 . Categories: Essay » Political
In this Episode [Episode Nth], Charles Dickens meets Nightmare On Bald Mountain meets Edward R. Murrow meets...well now, I'd tell you, but that would be spoiling things a bit.
Metamorphosis/ In God They Say They Trust While Everyone Gets Carded.
Price: Free! Words: 1,170. Language: English. Published: April 9, 2014 . Categories: Essay » Political
A few thoughts about 9/11, and the subsequent policies that have given rise to the Surveillance State.
When Chalk Is More Valuable Than Gold
Price: Free! Words: 4,990. Language: English. Published: March 31, 2014 . Categories: Nonfiction » Biography » People of color
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The inspiring true story of how Frederick Douglass learned to read and write, in his own words.
Monopoly
Series: Monopoly, Book 1. Price: Free! Words: 2,330. Language: English. Published: February 5, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general
A future where the Corporation rules supreme and the laws and rules -as well as the compassion- of man are swept away in favor of ratings and profits, driven on by the powerful, wildly popular, sensationalistic, no-holds-barred sport known as The Game, where huge cranes vie for position, wielding two four-thousand pound Dice, hell-bent on destruction. Destroy or be destroyed. A must read.
Notes From My Life
Series: Economics 101, Book 4. Price: Free! Words: 4,560. Language: English. Published: February 5, 2014 . Categories: Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs
With this Smashwords release, Steve Kenny takes the reader into the heart of memories and experiences that stretch from 1969 [notes from my life] through to the present [November]. A sometimes sweet and sometimes poignant work, sprinkled with some small didactic observations of the current America, 'notes from my life' gently blends tone and mood timelessly. A must read.
Ink Part 4
Series: Ink, Book 4. Price: Free! Words: 1,730. Language: English. Published: February 2, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
Social-science fiction at its best. The battle for the world begins between two races of alien beings living on Earth. A warm-blooded, human-like species possessing true warm empathy and rechargeable tattoo ink which gives them special abilities, is forced to defend the planet from the other; a cold-blooded human-like species that has finally discovered how to replicate the ink of their enemy.
Ink Part 3
Series: Ink, Book 3. Price: Free! Words: 2,050. Language: English. Published: February 2, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Utopias & dystopias
Social-science fiction at its best. The battle for the world begins between two races of alien beings living on Earth. A warm-blooded, human-like species possessing true warm empathy and rechargeable tattoo ink which gives them special abilities, is forced to defend the planet from the other; a cold-blooded human-like species that has finally discovered how to replicate the ink of their enemy.
Ink Part 2
Series: Ink, Book 2. Price: Free! Words: 1,700. Language: English. Published: February 2, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Utopias & dystopias
Social-science fiction at its best. The battle for the world begins between two races of alien beings living on Earth. A warm-blooded, human-like species possessing true warm empathy and rechargeable tattoo ink which gives them special abilities, is forced to defend the planet from the other; a cold-blooded human-like species that has finally discovered how to replicate the ink of their enemy.
Ink
Series: Ink, Book 1. Price: Free! Words: 4,350. Language: English. Published: February 2, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera
Social-science fiction at its best. The battle for the world begins between two races of alien beings living on Earth. A warm-blooded, human-like species possessing true warm empathy and rechargeable tattoo ink which gives them special abilities, is forced to defend the planet from the other; a cold-blooded human-like species that has finally discovered how to replicate the ink of their enemy.
Philosophy 101
Series: Economics 101, Book 2. Price: Free! Words: 20,530. Language: English. Published: February 2, 2014 . Categories: Essay » Literature
The second collection in a series, Philosophy 101 paints a picture of life as it is seen from inside the mind, and gives a perspective that will, hopefully, widen the reader's own perspective.
Economics 101
Series: Economics 101, Book 1. Price: Free! Words: 9,290. Language: English. Published: February 1, 2014 . Categories: Essay » Sociology
On The Verge Of Obsolescence, The Bread Winners, What's A Slave Worth?, The House That Greed Built, Words.