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Gori Suture

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http://www.goodreads.com/gori_suture

born

July 23, 1976 in The United States

gender

female

website

http://www.gorisuture.com

genre

Horror, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Literature & Fiction

influences

Dennis Cooper, Poppy Z. Brite, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Clive Barker, Anais...more

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January 2010

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Gori Suture was born on July 23, 1976, a birthday she shares with Rose Edith Kelly, the first wife of Aleister Crowley. She grew up poor on a small farm in southern Virginia in a loving, Baptist household. In the sixth year of her life, Gori was sexually molested by a teenage boy. In response to the trauma, she allowed another soul to enter her body and coexist within, giving her strength and courage as needed.

Gori has been a writer and artist all her life, creating stories and plays since childhood. Gori believes in love at first sight, and she married her high school sweetheart, Apothekari, in 1995. She attended film school from 1996-1997, but due to financial restraints, had to give up her dream of writing movies to support herself wor...more Gori Suture was born on July 23, 1976, a birthday she shares with Rose Edith Kelly, the first wife of Aleister Crowley. She grew up poor on a small farm in southern Virginia in a loving, Baptist household. In the sixth year of her life, Gori was sexually molested by a teenage boy. In response to the trauma, she allowed another soul to enter her body and coexist within, giving her strength and courage as needed.

Gori has been a writer and artist all her life, creating stories and plays since childhood. Gori believes in love at first sight, and she married her high school sweetheart, Apothekari, in 1995. She attended film school from 1996-1997, but due to financial restraints, had to give up her dream of writing movies to support herself working full time as an assistant manager at Kinko’s. Gori was content to live a quiet life of excess and debauchery until her spiritual awakening in the fall of 1998. A self proclaimed atheist who struggled with depression, in a fit of despair over writer’s block and under the influence of mild psychedelics, she offered her soul to any spirit willing to bless her with a muse. A spirit, in the form of a wolf and calling itself Ishtar, answered her call for help, demanding not Gori’s soul in return, but rather, the telling of a story. Ishtar opened Gori’s mind to a new way of thinking, and Gori devoted herself to paganism and the Great Work, allowing a higher spirit to also dwell within. On Christmas day, 1998, Gori met her muse, B. H. Young, and unexpectedly fell in love with him, again at first sight. Still in love with Apothekari, under the advisement of Ishtar, she came to understand that love is limitless, and thus, Gori became a polyamorist.

Gori subsequently wrote the erotic horror novel Asphyxia, A Smut Saga, Vol.1 in longhand as the ideas were presented to her by Ishtar, and by 2004, Gori had completed a rough layout of the story. At the same time, Kinko’s went through a time of upheaval, and her job hindered her from typing up the notes. On July 23, 2004, Gori heard the voice of a banshee warn her of impending death. A friend from work died later that day and left Gori feeling distraught. Distracted by grief and stress, Gori suffered a freak accident involving a camel cricket just 7 days later on August 1st. Diagnosed with RSD, irreparable nerve damage in her right hand that threatened her entire well being, Gori used her recovery time to type up her notes, using only her left hand. The doctors could do little to alleviate her constant physical pain, so Gori again turned to the gods and gave her right hand to Kali Ma, consequently giving up her prescription pain medication in favor of meditation.

After a leave of absence for recovery, Gori attempted to return to work at Kinko’s but soon realized the work was too physical and quit in the fall of 2005. She spent the next year writing her second novel, The Witch of Hainted Holler, A Smut Saga, Vol. 2, which she completed in 2006. Gori spent much of 2007 rewriting and editing her novels and short stories. The third, expanded edition of Asphyxia, A Smut Saga, Vol.1 and the second edition of The Witch of Hainted Holler, A Smut Saga, Vol. 2 will be released in the spring of 2008. She is currently working on the final two installments of her Smut Saga series.

Gori is also known as the founder of B-Czar Magazine, a local North Carolina rag featuring band interviews and local fiction and art, and she served as editor and contributor from its inception in 2000 until its demise in 2005.

When not chronicling the entropy of this plane and uncovering properties of chromatic light, Gori enjoys deathrock, bug collecting, theology, occultism, and transpersonal anthropology. She lives in North Carolina with her family and numerous cats.

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Parabéns a Kathy e Jeni, os vencedores do sorteio livro Sorriso da Verdade! Seus livros foram enviados!

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Books by Gori Suture

Average rating: 4.04 · 24 ratings · 17 reviews · 5 distinct works

	Asphyxia -- A Smut Saga, Vol. 1 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Witch of Hainted Holler, A Smut Saga Vol. 2 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Shatter Kinder, A Smut Saga, Vol. 3 3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Sorriso da Verdade by Gori Suture (Goodreads Author) (author), Amauri Casagrande (Goodreads Author) (translator) 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	Smile of Truth 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:

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A Smut Saga (3 books)
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Dark Intrusions: An Investigation Into the Paranormal Nature of Sleep Paralysis Experiences

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Gori Suture is currently reading: Dark Intrusions: An Investigation Into the Paranormal Nature of Sleep Paralysis Experiences by Louis Proud	My rating:
Apr 27, 2012 08:38am
Gori Suture gave to: The Halfling's Gem (Forgotten Realms: Icewind Dale, #3; Legend of Drizzt, #6) by R.A. Salvatore	My rating:
Apr 20, 2012 06:49am
Gori Suture gave to: The Awakening by Kate Chopin	My rating:
Apr 20, 2012 06:48am
Gori Suture gave to: Streams of Silver (Forgotten Realms: Icewind Dale, #2; Legend of Drizzt, #5) by R.A. Salvatore read in February, 2012	My rating:
Another fun read from Salvatore! This is Bruenor ’s story, and a fantastic one at that. It’s just like table top role-playing with your good friends! If this bothers you, this is not the book for you. Drizzt is awesome, as usual, and the assassin Art...more
Mar 30, 2012 08:37am · see review
Gori Suture made a comment on Iori's review of Shatter Kinder, A Smut Saga, Vol. 3 "Thanks for reading it. I know it was a bit much for some. The next book is closer in style to my previous work, so hopefully you’ll find it easier to...more "
Mar 18, 2012 11:55am · see review
Gori Suture made a comment on Krystal's review of Shatter Kinder, A Smut Saga, Vol. 3 "The next book is not nearly as dense. It reads more like my previous books and should be a fun read. "
Mar 18, 2012 11:52am · see review
Gori Suture added: Sorriso da Verdade by Gori Suture (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
Mar 08, 2012 06:45am
Gori Suture gave to: Ghost Walk by Brian Keene (Goodreads Author) recommended for: my enemies read in November, 2011	My rating:
Wow. I can’t believe this book is even by the same person that wrote Dark Hollow. It feels really rushed and flat. It’s like Brian had an idea for a sequel, jotted down some notes late one night on a napkin at Denny’s, decided the idea sucked and chu...more
Jan 13, 2012 12:01pm · see review
Gori Suture gave to: The Long Hard Road Out of Hell by Marilyn Manson read in November, 2011	My rating:
Interesting look into the mind of Mr. Manson. My God, what an ego. I just wanted to smack him. I hope he’s matured a bit since this was written.
Jan 13, 2012 11:47am · see review