Works by
Stephen Beachy
(Writer)

The Whistling Song (1991)

Distortion (2000)
Reggie, a young, racially mixed gay man, on speed and increasingly paranoid, is having trouble distinguishing what is real and what is not. After exchanging his least favorite sexual act for a ticket to Los Angeles, Reggie finds himself on a dark journey where the realities surrounding him have so many layers of meaning he keeps finding it harder and harder to separate truth from fantasy, dreams from visions and hallucinations from reality.

Some Phantom/No Time Flat: Two Novellas (2006) -- Nominated 2006 Lambda Literary Award for Male Fiction
In Some Phantom an unnamed woman arrives in a strange city, fleeing a violent relationship in her past. Taking a job with disturbed children, her own mental stability becomes more and more precarious. A marriage of The Turn of the Screw and Herk Harvey's Carnival of Souls, Some Phantom poses questions about the line between madness and memory, fantasy and abuse, questions elaborated on in No Time Flat. No Time Flat follows Wade, a young boy who grows up on the American plains in an isolated existence with his elderly parents, as he makes his way through a childhood of playground shootings and mysterious strangers. Becoming a wanderer himself, Wade inhabits a sparse American landscape of fleeting connections, missing children, and possible crimes.