Adam Carpenter Welles has come THIS CLOSE to having his works published in books and magazines. In this collection of his stories (each of which has a story behind it), you'll read about:

• two retired spiritual leaders who experience a miracle in their nursing home,
• a gay relationship that must end between an American man and a Thai student,
• the astonishing adventures of an early mid-life failure,
• the thrilling chase one gay man undertakes for another intriguing, confusing, mysterious man, and
• a mind-blowing time-travel misadventure involving a man and a dog, as well as a few other surprises.

This genre bending collection will captivate you. You might even enjoy the stories. Adam Carpenter Welles works in media in a major city in the Southeastern United States.

Written on the Body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulation of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like braille. I like to keep my body rolled away from prying eyes, never unfold too much, tell the whole story. I didn't know that Louise would have reading hands. She has translated me into her own book.

The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman. At once a love story and a philosophical meditation.