Gutshot Stories

A woman creeps through the ductwork of a quiet home. A medical procedure reveals an object of worship. A carnivorous reptile divides and cauterizes a town. Amelia Gray's curio cabinet expands in Gutshot, where isolation and coupling are pushed to their dark and outrageous edges. A master of the macabre, Gray's work is not for the faint of heart or gut: lick at your own risk.

Amelia Gray is the author of AM/PM and Museum of the Weird, for which she won the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize. Her first novel, Threats (FSG Originals, 2012), was long-listed for the University of Wales Dylan Thomas Prize and short-listed for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Tin House, Ninth Letter, Hobart, Poets & Writers, Lucky Peach, American Short Fiction, GOOD, Guernica, Annalemma, Sonora Review, VICE, McSweeney’s, Los Angeles Review of Books, and DIAGRAM, among others. She received a BA from Arizona State and an MFA from Texas State. She lives in Los Angeles, where she is currently working on a novel.