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rarely works out the way you imagine it will. With Sumell it has. Here’s
a fierce talent whom the world will soon know.”

Gutshot by Amelia Gray
Gray’s writing frequently leaves us mystified, unable to comprehend the
scenes laid out before us with near-sociopathic detachment. In “House
Heart,” one of the most twisted stories in Gutshot, a couple kidnap and
imprison a young prostitute who “smelled like a bowl of sugar that had
been sprayed with a disinfectant.” They bribe her to live within the
arterial ventilation system of their house like a human hamster, engaging
in a game they call “House Heart.” Aroused by her fear and the thought
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