
Some Phantom/No Time Flat
Two Novellas
Stephen Beachy(Author)
Visible Spectrum (Publisher)
Published on 12. May 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
266 pages
978-1-953835-12-3 (ISBN)
Description
"Stephen Beachy is a visionary. In these twin novellas, he explores madness and crime with the nocturnal lyricism of empty time and space. Beachy's dear criminals reach an exquisite isolation and so does his reader, a non place where categories collapse, like freedom and confinement, chaos and lucidity, the angelic and demonic. A harsh dream, and we will never wake." - Robert Glück
In Some Phantom a woman arrives in a strange city, fleeing an abusive relationship. She gets a job teaching disturbed children, explores the city, fears her old life catching up with her. She must decide whether her increasing paranoia is a form of psychosis-or a new lucidity. A bastard offspring of The Turn of the Screw and Carnival of Souls, it roams the border territory between memory and insanity, fantasy and violence.
In No Time Flat, Wade grows up in isolation on the American plains, living mostly in his dreams. Caught between the silences of his elderly parents and the permutations of his own fantasies, his childhood seems to last forever. Haunted by strange encounters and a shooting at his school, he finally escapes and becomes nomadic, wandering across desolate landscapes marked by fleeting connections and unfathomable crimes.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
341 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-953835-12-3 (9781953835123)
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Stephen Beachy is the author of the novels Glory Hole, boneyard, The Whistling Song, and Distortion, the twin novellas Some Phantom and No Time Flat, and the Amish sci-fi series that begins with Zeke Yoder vs. the Singularity. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Evergreen Review, BOMB, The Chicago Review, New York magazine, and elsewhere. He is the prose editor of the journal Your Impossible Voice, teaches at the University of San Francisco, and lives in San Diego.