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MD Kenney

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Want your girlfriend to think you're sensitive?

Send her this (but still buy her a present.)

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Welcome to the Valentine's Cafe

A delicious, deeply decadent dive into love of all flavours - by some of the most talented writers on Substack!

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February 12, 2026 at 2:27 AM

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Garden of Little Peace

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Valentine’s Day can be difficult for some.

If you’ve loved and lost, if you feel awkward in rooms full of couples, if you don’t know how to step back into joy without guilt, this story might be for you. littlepeacenovel.substack.com/p/under-the-...

#romance #bittersweet #valentine #lostlove

Under the Same Moon

A Valentine Cafe Story

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February 5, 2026 at 9:42 PM

MD Kenney

@mdkenney.bsky.social

Only the Trump administration could create a shitshow that feels so shocking but also completely unsurprising.

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Live: Trump says US has captured Venezuela's President Maduro after 'large scale' strike

It was Washington's most direct intervention in Latin America since the 1989 invasion of Panama.

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January 3, 2026 at 1:32 PM

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Garden of Little Peace

@littlepeacenovel.bsky.social

Do you need a cheerful Christmas story to perk up your morning?

Well, this isn’t it.

But if you want a Christmas mystery, here’s my part of it (follow along for what other Christmas market vendors see!)

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#mystery #jackrussell #christmas #shortstory

Eyewitness Report—Booth #4: Birdie Briggs Did Not Sign Up for This

From a bookseller with regrets and a dog with none

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December 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM

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Garden of Little Peace

@littlepeacenovel.bsky.social

Folks around Raleigh will recognize plenty of places in this chapter. Boylan. Dix. RDU
#fiction #paranormal #fatedhearts #romanticsuspense
Read now at:
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On Boylan bridge

Chapter 13

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December 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM

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Garden of Little Peace

@littlepeacenovel.bsky.social

While GoLP is on hiatus, check out this intro to my fantasy novel. The Light Traveler’s Child follows Flea and Cora as they search for their father across a post-apocalyptic world where the old systems have collapsed and the land has become law again. littlepeacenovel.substack.com/p/the-light-...

December 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM

MD Kenney

@mdkenney.bsky.social

Struggling to find a 40-hour #job?

There's a reason.

Don't make a #livingwage?

There's a reason.

Feel left behind?

You're not alone.

None of this is new.

And it's not going to change without a lot of pushing.

#immigration #workers

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The Making of Forty Hours: Agitation, Experiment, and Law

The long road to America's workweek, and who it left behind

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November 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM

MD Kenney

@mdkenney.bsky.social

Imagine a "leader" who starves his people while commissioning a ballroom and a personal marble shitter.

November 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM

MD Kenney

@mdkenney.bsky.social

Popularity changes over time. So does our cultural reading list. #harrypotter #books #culture #AnneWithanE #booksky #YAlit

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Harry Potter and the Memory Gap

How cultural memory edits our shared reading list

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October 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM

MD Kenney

@mdkenney.bsky.social

If someone told you in 2005 that, twenty years later, the guy from The Apprentice would be serving his 2nd term as President and would completely annihilate the White House East Wing to build a Biff Tannen-like monstrosity in its place, you'd ask WTF they were on.

And yet, here we are.

October 23, 2025 at 10:39 PM

MD Kenney

@mdkenney.bsky.social

Harry Potter and the Memory Gap,
or how cultural memory edits our shared reading list
#books #reading #culture
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Harry Potter and the Memory Gap

How cultural memory edits our shared reading list

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October 5, 2025 at 1:32 AM

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Garden of Little Peace

@littlepeacenovel.bsky.social

Worlds collide, Ch. 7 of Garden of Little Peace, Available now!

#mystery #romanticsuspense #books, #reading #bookworm #RomanceBooks #BookSky
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Worlds collide

Chapter 7

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October 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM

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Garden of Little Peace

@littlepeacenovel.bsky.social

Why read Garden of Little Peace on Substack?
Twists that keep you up late
Romance tangled with real danger
Small-town secrets you’ll feel you’ve lived
Read free here: littlepeacenovel.substack.com?utm_source=b...
#RomanticSuspense #SerialFiction #ReadersOfSubstack #BookTok #Bookstagram #WomenWhoRead

Garden of Little Peace--A Serialized Mystery | M D Kenney | Substack

If you could open just one door—into the afterlife, or into someone’s heart—which would you choose? Click to read Garden of Little Peace--A Serialized Mystery, by M D Kenney, a Substack publication wi...

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September 4, 2025 at 12:43 PM

MD Kenney

@mdkenney.bsky.social

Read #fiction on #Substack.
Read #fiction on #Substack.
Read #fiction on #Substack.

Why? It's plentiful. It's often #free. You're supporting #indiewriters. And you can read it on any device!

Here's one:
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#RomanticSuspense #SerialFiction #booksky

Garden of Little Peace--A Serialized Mystery | M D Kenney | Substack

If you could open just one door—into the afterlife, or into someone’s heart—which would you choose? Click to read Garden of Little Peace--A Serialized Mystery, by M D Kenney, a Substack publication wi...

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September 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM

MD Kenney

@mdkenney.bsky.social

Love. Secrets. A little danger.

Sparks that can’t be ignored
Lovers who risk it all
A town that never forgets

Start Garden of Little Peace free:
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#RomanticSuspense #LoveAndDanger #SerialFiction #WomenWhoRead #booksky #booktok #paranormalromance

Garden of Little Peace--A Serialized Mystery | M D Kenney | Substack

If you could open just one door—into the afterlife, or into someone’s heart—which would you choose? Click to read Garden of Little Peace--A Serialized Mystery, by M D Kenney, a Substack publication wi...

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September 4, 2025 at 12:48 PM

MD Kenney

@mdkenney.bsky.social

I thought I was writing a “she gets cookies, takes a bath, moves on with her life” scene. Then my brain said: what if the cookies kill her? Sorry, Chelsea. That’s how the Prologue opens.

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#booksky #bookish #bookrecommendations #paranormal #romanticsuspense #mystery

Garden of Little Peace--A Serialized Mystery | M D Kenney | Substack

If you could open just one door—into the afterlife, or into someone’s heart—which would you choose? Click to read Garden of Little Peace--A Serialized Mystery, by M D Kenney, a Substack publication. L...

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August 31, 2025 at 3:50 PM