Description: "Reading Gutshot is a little like being blindfolded and pelted from all sides with fire, Jell-O and the occasional live animal. You''ll be messy at the end and slightly beaten up, but surprised and certainly entertained . . . She pushes against the outer limits of what humans can and will do. She seems to be testing her readers, too. Will you come with me here? How about if I take it a little further? Are you still game?" --Ramona Ausubel, The New York Times Book Review "Amelia Gray sounds like no one else. Her writing is by turns horrifying, funny, sexy and grotesque, but woe be to those who want to pin it down as horror, comedy, romance or fantasy. Sentence by sentence, these stories are simple, rarely complicated by rhetorical flourishes or formal experimentation, but the scenes they build can be deeply complex - and the emotions they summon often contradictory, too. And, at the beating heart of it all, Gray''s on a quest to reclaim the body''s rightful place in literature - the clumsy, bloody, inconvenient body, which so often gets left behind in high-minded drama . . . By baring a bit of blood to the world, she reminds readers we''re blood-bearing creatures after all, not just selves but bodies with beating hearts." --Colin Dwyer, NPR "Viscerally wicked." --Natalie Beach, O, The Oprah Magazine "The 38 stories in Gutshot may be short, but they''re also downright haunting. Gray''s characters are often dark, awkward, and funny--a serial vomiter, unlikely conjoined twins--and lurking through desolate landscapes, finding small, strange joys." --Steph Opitz, Marie Claire "The stories in Gutshot , also aptly named, get at you right in the viscera, full of bodily fluids and strange sights and smells. They often end not with a neat tying-up of the various elements, but as if something exploded, like dynamite breaking down a door . . . But Gutshot is not all swagger and shock-there''s a softness hiding under the derangement, a visible tenderness for her troubled characters that have found themselves lost in the margins of existence, that becomes all the more affecting as it moves with and against the character''s sharp edges." --Juliet Escoria, Vice "In Gray''s ( Threats , 2012) latest unique, punchy collection, she melds the inexplicable with everyday realities . . . Gray''s bountiful five-part collection incorporates tales and vignettes both absorbing and unconventional . . . While eccentricities are on display, Gray''s stories also deftly capture the startling moments when her characters pull off their armor and reveal their genuine selves." -- Booklist "Strange, fable-like, and physical, Gray''s stories are driven by uncanny forces and set in organic yet unnatural worlds . . . Masterly gathering of forces [are- the clumsy, bloody, inconvenient body, which so often gets left behind in high-minded drama . . . By baring a bit of blood to the world, she reminds readers we''re blood-bearing creatures after all, not just selves but bodies with beating hearts." --Colin Dwyer, NPR "Viscerally wicked." --Natalie Beach, O, The Oprah Magazine "The 38 stories in Gutshot may be short, but they''re also downright haunting. Gray''s characters are often dark, awkward, and funny--a serial vomiter, unlikely conjoined twins--and lurking through desolate landscapes, finding small, strange joys." --Steph Opitz, Marie Claire "The stories in Gutshot , also aptly named, get at you right in the viscera, full of bodily fluids and strange sights and smells. They often end not with a neat tying-up of the various elements, but as if something exploded, like dynamite breaking down a door . . . But Gutshot is not all swagger and shock-there''s a softness hiding under the derangement, a visible tenderness for her troubled characters that have found themselves lost in the margins of existence, that becomes all the more affecting as it moves with and against the character''s sharp edges." --Juliet Escoria, Vice "In Gray''s ( Threats , 2012) latest unique, punchy collection, she melds the inexplicable with everyday realities . . . Gray''s bountiful five-part collection incorporates tales and vignettes both absorbing and unconventional . . . While eccentricities are on display, Gray''s stories also deftly capture the startling moments when her characters pull off their armor and reveal their genuine selves." -- Booklist "Strange, fable-like, and physical, Gray''s stories are driven by uncanny forces and set in organic yet unnatural worlds . . . Masterly gathering of forces [are, a visible tenderness for her troubled characters that have found themselves lost in the margins of existence, that becomes all the more affecting as it moves with and against the character''s sharp edges." --Juliet Escoria, Vice "In Gray''s ( Threats , 2012) latest unique, punchy collection, she melds the inexplicable with everyday realities . . . Gray''s bountiful five-part collection incorporates tales and vignettes both absorbing and unconventional . . . While eccentricities are on display, Gray''s stories also deftly capture the startling moments when her characters pull off their armor and reveal their genuine selves." -- Booklist "Strange, fable-like, and physical, Gray''s stories are driven by uncanny forces and set in organic yet unnatural worlds . . . Masterly gathering of forces [are- the clumsy, bloody, inconvenient body, which so often gets left behind in high-minded drama . . . By baring a bit of blood to the world, she reminds readers we''re blood-bearing creatures after all, not just selves but bodies with beating hearts." --Colin Dwyer, NPR "Viscerally wicked." --Natalie Beach, O, The Oprah Magazine "The 38 stories in Gutshot may be short, but they''re also downright haunting. Gray''s characters are often dark, awkward, and funny--a serial vomiter, unlikely conjoined twins--and lurking through desolate landscapes, finding small, strange joys." --Steph Opitz, Marie Claire "The stories in Gutshot , also aptly named, get at you right in the viscera, full of bodily fluids and strange sights and smells. They often end not with a neat tying-up of the various elements, but as if something exploded, like dynamite breaking down a door . . . But Gutshot is not all swagger and shock-there''s a softness hiding under the derangement, a visible tenderness for her troubled characters that have found themselves lost in the margins of existence, that becomes all the more affecting as it moves with and against the character''s sharp edges." --Juliet Escoria, Vice "In Gray''s ( Threats , 2012) latest unique, punchy collection, she melds the inexplicable with everyday realities . . . Gray''s bountiful five-part collection incorporates tales and vignettes both absorbing and unconventional . . . While eccentricities are on display, Gray''s stories also deftly capture the startling moments when her characters pull off their armor and reveal their genuine selves." -- Booklist "Strange, fable-like, and physical, Gray''s stories are driven by uncanny forces and set in organic yet unnatural worlds . . . Masterly gathering of forces [are- the clumsy, bloody, inconvenient body, which so often gets left behind in high-minded drama . . . By baring a bit of blood to the world, she reminds readers we''re blood-bearing creatures after all, not just selves but bodies with beating hearts." --Colin Dwyer, NPR "Viscerally wicked." --Natalie Beach, O, The Oprah Magazine "The 38 stories in Gutshot may be short, but they''re also downright haunting. Gray''s characters are often dark, awkward, and funny--a serial vomiter, unlikely conjoined twins--and lurking through desolate landscapes, finding small, strange joys." --Steph Opitz, Marie Claire "The stories in Gutshot , also aptly named, get at you right in the viscera, full of bodily fluids and strange sights and smells. They often end not with a neat tying-up of the various elements, but as if something exploded, like dynamite breaking down a door . . . But Gutshot is not all swagger and shock-there''s a softness hiding under the derangement, a visible tenderness for her troubled characters that have found themselves lost in the margins of existence, that becomes all the more affecting as it moves with and against the character''s sharp edges." --Juliet Escoria, Vice "In Gray''s ( Threats , 2012) latest unique, punchy collection, she melds the inexplicable with everyday realities . . . Gray''s bountiful five-part collection incorporates tales and vignettes both absorbing and unconventional . . . While eccentricities are on display, Gray''s stories also deftly capture the startling moments when her characters pull off their armor and reveal their genuine selves." -- Booklist "Strange, fable-like, and physical, Gray''s stories are driven by uncanny forces and set in organic yet unnatural worlds . . . Masterly gathering of forces [are, a visible tenderness for her troubled characters that have found themselves lost in the margins of existence, that becomes all the more affecting as it moves with and against the character''s sharp edges." --Juliet Escoria, Vice "In Gray''s ( Threats , 2012) latest unique, punchy collection, she melds the inexplicable with everyday realities . . . Gray''s bountiful five-part collection incorporates tales and vignettes both absorbing and unconventional . . . While eccentricities are on display, Gray''s stories also deftly capture th

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