Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

A queer ghost story about trauma and grief, with original illustrations by Kira Gondeck-Silvia.

Helen House

Myriam Gurba

Alissa Nutting

SJ Sindu

Maame Blue

Sam Cohen

Venita Blackburn

Anna Dorn

Marisa Crane

Aurora Mattia

Priya Guns

Soula Emmanuel

Temim Fruchter

Myriam Lacroix

Kristel Emma Buckley

Molly Llewellyn with Emily Austin

francesca ekwuyasi

A follow-up to their runaway success Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women, editors Molly Llewellyn and Kristel Buckley return with Be Gay, Do Crime, a celebration of queer chaos from an all-queer author lineup featuring Myriam Gurba, Emily Austin, Alissa Nutting, and Francesca Ekwuyasi

A trans woman makes increasingly frequent hoax calls to a business where she's had a negative experience, watching the consequences with perverse joy. A group of aging queers turns to bank robbery to stop the sale of their bungalow complex to a development company. As the president prepares to give a speech, two women lurk among the journalists, ready to shoot him. And an aspiring author takes to stealing items from strangers’ homes in a kind of cosmic redistribution each time one of her relationships fail.

In sixteen brilliant, wild-eyed stories, Be Gay, Do Crime delivers a celebration and reckoning of why queer people turn to crime–unintentionally, as a means of survival, as protest, as rescue, or to right injustices big and small.

Sixteen Stories of Queer Chaos

Be Gay, Do Crime

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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