Here is the novella “Dangerous Space,” in PDF format as it appears in the collection.
Please feel free to share it or point people to the link here. You absolutely positively may not republish it on your own site, print it in your anthology, or use it in any way that makes money for you. If you want to do any of that, play nicely and ask my permission.
“Dangerous Space” is about music and love and sex, and the relationship between artist and art, and what happens when we let ourselves and other people into the deep places within us. I am unbearably curious (practically panting) to know how other artists — particularly those who live in the world of indie music — respond to the story.
Enjoy this. I’d love to hear what you think of it.
I bought ‘Dangerous Space’ and read it from the early stories to the most recent to see how a writer grows, changes, becomes confident. ‘Dangerous Space’ the novella is wonderful all by itself, but if you’re a reader who is interested in a writer’s progress buy the entire book. Surprisingly, a few of the early stories affected me in ways the later ones did not and vice versa. With ‘Dangerous Space’ the novella, I sense a writer who is now stronger, older (sorry Kelley) and working extremely hard at her craft. All the stories in this collection are not the same. We see Kelley embracing the expanse of all humanness, which is beautiful in itself.
No need to be sorry, Jan (grin). Older is fine. I’m braver, stronger, deeper and happier than I was at 20 for sure, and I wouldn’t go back.
Thanks for the kind words about DS. I’m glad (relieved!) that you don’t find all the stories the same, that would be a damn sorry result for 20 years of writing. I may revisit some of the same places from time to time, but I sincerely hope I will never write the same story twice.