Here is a link to purchase issue #14 of Stonecoast Review - you can read my one-act, “The Date” in it! https://kellysbookstogo.com/stonecoast-review/

There was a time in my life when I loved to cook. I loved learning about exciting new spices and recipes and trying them out in my tiny kitchen, in my 400 square foot apartment. I collected recipes from everywhere — boxes, books, packages I read quickly in grocery...

A young homeless man’s life is radically changed when he becomes the Devil’s errand boy.

Check out my one-act!https://youtu.be/mXRlcfA88XU

It irritates the shit out of me in movies and TV shows when the new kid arrives at the new place and is immediately embraced by a group of friends, and now they are all ride-or-die besties.Like, I get that it would slow down the plot considerably to have the new kid...

Between Your Wife and Me I am in love with a married man. That is my tragedy. I love him with a deep and desperate passion that rules me. I want to own his heart and mind and soul. I want to rip the heart out of his body and caress it with my my small hands, feeling...

Here’s a short story for you. It’s my imagining of how it went the first time a person tried to ride a horse. The Horseman Jalk was pleased as he looked up at the puffy white clouds. Those kinds of big, billowy clouds, like overgrown sheep, meant that there would not...

Last year, my sister and her kids came to visit on Easter. I was super excited, because cousins spending Easter together is wholesome as fuck. However, I was dealing with extreme nausea and vomiting, coupled with fairly debilitating lupus symptoms at the time, so I...

Roxanne had just arrived home from the party, and her feet were killing her. She dropped her purse on the floor, kicked off her extremely high stripper heels, yanked off her bra from under her shirt, and collapsed on the couch. Her stomach sloshed, unpleasantly full...

My daughter is slowly acquiring a cat. It started when the cat in question showed up in our backyard, peering into our house. Nadia, being Nadia, generously fed the cat her cereal milk. Now the cat comes into our backyard every day, and sometimes sits in our front...

  After much reflection, I have decided to remove The Taxidermist and Rosemary’s Baby Daddy from the world. When I published those books, I was an immature writer who knew nothing about the publishing industry. In my mind, it was Step 1: Write a book Step 2: Self...

This was my daughter’s first week of T-K. It’s been a period of adjustment for both of us, as we get up early and go to a building where we learn the rules regarding weekly manilla envelopes and why my four year old’s shoulders are considered “inappropriate.” (I could...

I’m an introvert. (Surprise!) As an adult, I’m comfortable with it, but as a child I got a lot of grief for it; mainly because a lot of the adults in my life thought it was a wrong way to be. So I resolved that if I ever had a child, she would be welcome to spend all...

Today is my husband’s birthday, and as usual, figuring out what to get him is a nightmare. The man is hard to buy for. Everything he wants is astronomically expensive or something I don’t understand. Until an asteroid takes out the grid, my skills are useless to him....

Beavis and Butthead was one of my favorite shows as a kid. I watched it diligently, and I still think it’s hilarious, though perhaps not as genius as I once thought it was. Here’s the thing. Every time I tell someone that I miss Beavis and Butthead, or that I enjoyed...

In movies and books, clumsiness is always portrayed as a sweet, funny flaw. Oftentimes it’s downright charming. That’s because the writers have never had to live with clumsy people. I’m not an exceptionally graceful person, but I possess average dexterity and...

First of all, The Taxidermist is now available on Audible. If you want a free copy, let me know, I have some codes. Here is a link to the book. Get it. Allow my charming, hypnotic voice to fulfil you on a spiritual level....

It’s always important to have a backup plan. You might wonder what mine is, if this whole writing thing doesn’t work out. (Thank you for your confidence asshole.) While this is a silly thing to wonder, since my big break is obviously very close, I will address the...

Come see my short play, “The Neverending Karate Story”. This will be an evening of short plays, inspired by 1980s films.  Brickhouse Theatre, Hollywood, this weekend.

Here is a link to a copy of my screenplay, published by Dizzy Emu. It’s about three men who plan a heist to kidnap a woolly mammoth. Dark comedy.https://www.amazon.com/Mammoth-Screenplay-Dana-Hammer/dp/B0BYBFJ9KV

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