Be gay, do crime : sixteen stories of queer chaos / edited by Molly Llewellyn and Kristel Buckley
2025
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"A follow-up to their runaway success Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women, editor 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 fails. 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." From back cover.
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Author:
Llewellyn, Molly, editorBuckley, Kristel, editorNutting, Alissa, authorDorn, Anna, authorMattia, Aurora, authorAustin, Emily (Emily R.), authorEkwuyasi, Francesca, authorUpadhyaya, Kayla Kumari, authorBlue, Maame, authorCrane, Marisa (Mac), authorLacroix, Myriam, authorEmmanuel, Soula, authorFruchter, Temim, authorSindu, SJ, authorGuns, Priya, authorGurba, Myriam, authorBlackburn, Venita, authorCohen, Sam, author
Work:
Edition:
First US edition.
Imprint:
Ann Arbor : Dzanc Books, 2025.©2025
Collation:
261 pages ; 22 cm
Contents:
The meaning of life / Myriam LaCroixIt's a cruel world for empaths like us / Soula EmmanuelRedistribution / Temim FruchterWild ale / S J SinduPeep show / Alissa NuttingOf course, a curse / Kayla Kumari UpadhyayaWild and blue / Aurora MattiaBad dog / Anna DornTwo hundred channels of conflict / Mac Crane"Fuck you" money / Francesca EkwuyasiMake life great again / Priya GunsTooth fairy / Myriam GurbaBlack Jesus / Venita BlackburnDistraction / Maame blueGrand beaver cabin / Emily AustinOperation hyacinth / Sam CohenEditors and contributors.
ISBN:
9781938603310 (paperback)
Dewey class:
[Fic]
Language:
English
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BRN:
494508