The Story
When childhood best friends Eden and Mary are taught they'll become "used pieces of gum" if they engage in premarital sex, the lesson burrows deep into their psyches. At 21 and preparing for Mormon missions, they're seduced by the bishop's son into experimenting with "armpit sex" as a purity loophole.
But their guilt doesn't stay buried. Eden is stalked by a creature in a red sheet—the same sheet from that fateful night. Mary's body begins transforming into something monstrous, her armpit rash growing into grotesque flesh.
To defeat these manifestations of shame, they'll need to confront uncomfortable truths about desire, control, and the price of perfection.
Inspired by a True-ish Story
In 2022, Rolling Stone Magazine published an article stating that supposedly, there are many students at BYU college getting STD's in their armpits. The theory was that these religious students are having armpit sex as a loophole for getting around the whole virginity thing.
So… thus, GUM was born!
In GUM, the bishop's son convinces both the main characters, Eden and Mary, to have armpit sex with him. Afterwards they soon become haunted by their guilt in the form of monsters.
Eden is haunted by a creature wearing a red sheet, the same type of sheet that she did the deed on. Mary develops a major rash in her armpit that begins to grow into something monstrous.
They soon learn some uncomfortable truths that just may be the key to defeating the monsters.