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This year has been more productive than I thought it'd be: here are all the stories (and poems) I published this year, with six more due in 2026. Thank you so much to all the editors for their support, and to folks just for reading. Pieces linked below:
I've been really lucky to have two pieces published so closely together. This one's called "Therapy," it's in Citywide Lunch, and it's got squirrels in it. Go ahead, tell us more about your parents. citywidelunch.wordpress.com/therapy-by-h...
January 30, 2026 at 5:08 PM
I've been really lucky to have two pieces published so closely together. This one's called "Therapy," it's in Citywide Lunch, and it's got squirrels in it. Go ahead, tell us more about your parents. citywidelunch.wordpress.com/therapy-by-h...
I'm super glad to see my story about the awkwardness of being a bystander at a hedgehog orgy is up now at Dodo Eraser. I challenge you to use the safeword. dodoeraser.org/2026/01/29/i...
I’m Okay at Being a Person I Guess
A hedgehog runs onto our futon, waking me up. “It’s me, Susan!” she chirps. “Sorry to be back so late, I was out drinking with, um, friends; we wound up at this after party at the witches’ house, s…
dodoeraser.org
January 29, 2026 at 4:20 PM
I'm super glad to see my story about the awkwardness of being a bystander at a hedgehog orgy is up now at Dodo Eraser. I challenge you to use the safeword. dodoeraser.org/2026/01/29/i...
While, I'm doing my best to avoid having a panic attack, another story of mine has been published, this time in
Hawkeye. It's called "Plots," it's meta and it has #ThomasPynchon in it. hawkeyemag.com/stories/behn...
Hawkeye. It's called "Plots," it's meta and it has #ThomasPynchon in it. hawkeyemag.com/stories/behn...
Plots
I feel hopelessly stuck, so I go to the plot store, but everything they have is so relentlessly stupid I feel horribly depressed as well as stuck. But then this lady, dressed entirely in black, linger...
hawkeyemag.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:22 PM
While, I'm doing my best to avoid having a panic attack, another story of mine has been published, this time in
Hawkeye. It's called "Plots," it's meta and it has #ThomasPynchon in it. hawkeyemag.com/stories/behn...
Hawkeye. It's called "Plots," it's meta and it has #ThomasPynchon in it. hawkeyemag.com/stories/behn...
Reposted by Hugh Behm-Steinberg
An ongoing thread of short story collections coming in 2026, of work weird/surreal/dark/uncanny/unsettling/ghostly/ghastly, across genres, so that they're all in one place that I can refer back to when I inevitably forget what books I was meaning to request review copies of:
October 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
An ongoing thread of short story collections coming in 2026, of work weird/surreal/dark/uncanny/unsettling/ghostly/ghastly, across genres, so that they're all in one place that I can refer back to when I inevitably forget what books I was meaning to request review copies of:
I wrote this story when I took my California College of the Arts
students to Mission Creek to write about their surroundings. I think I knew even then that the countdown was already ticking away to when CCA itself would blow away. literarygarage.com/at-the-park
students to Mission Creek to write about their surroundings. I think I knew even then that the countdown was already ticking away to when CCA itself would blow away. literarygarage.com/at-the-park
At The Park | Literary Garage
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January 14, 2026 at 8:02 PM
I wrote this story when I took my California College of the Arts
students to Mission Creek to write about their surroundings. I think I knew even then that the countdown was already ticking away to when CCA itself would blow away. literarygarage.com/at-the-park
students to Mission Creek to write about their surroundings. I think I knew even then that the countdown was already ticking away to when CCA itself would blow away. literarygarage.com/at-the-park
My neighborhood has a LOT of dogs! This is my first published story of the new year and I couldn't be happier.
We're starting Dishsoap's 2026 off right with a lovely, voice-y, dog-filled micro. Stay in bed a little longer and read "Description is one thing among a number of things" from @hughbehmsteinberg.bsky.social
Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/1-6-26
Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/1-6-26
January 6, 2026 at 11:52 PM
My neighborhood has a LOT of dogs! This is my first published story of the new year and I couldn't be happier.
This year has been more productive than I thought it'd be: here are all the stories (and poems) I published this year, with six more due in 2026. Thank you so much to all the editors for their support, and to folks just for reading. Pieces linked below:
December 29, 2025 at 6:50 PM
This year has been more productive than I thought it'd be: here are all the stories (and poems) I published this year, with six more due in 2026. Thank you so much to all the editors for their support, and to folks just for reading. Pieces linked below:
While I'm recuperating from a cold, a bit of good news: my story "Plots" just got accepted in Hawkeye! Took them less than six hours too! Maybe because it's got Thomas Pynchon in it.
December 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM
While I'm recuperating from a cold, a bit of good news: my story "Plots" just got accepted in Hawkeye! Took them less than six hours too! Maybe because it's got Thomas Pynchon in it.
I have two new micros up at the Gorko Gazette! They're about death. thegorkogazette.com/2025/12/12/s...
New content every morning!
Get your cards read by someone who really knows what they’re doing, that’s what you do.
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December 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I have two new micros up at the Gorko Gazette! They're about death. thegorkogazette.com/2025/12/12/s...
This is my second piece nominated this year!
Congratulations to our nominees for Best Small Fictions 2025 (or 2026, however they calculate it)! @hughbehmsteinberg.bsky.social
Dana Wall
@brettbbl.bsky.social
@sagetyrtle.bsky.social
@addisonzeller.bsky.social
Dana Wall
@brettbbl.bsky.social
@sagetyrtle.bsky.social
@addisonzeller.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM
This is my second piece nominated this year!
This is so cool!
I didn't know about this. Seems like a great thing.
periodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
November 17, 2025 at 1:19 PM
This is so cool!
Great journals with really long names, like Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet?
November 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Great journals with really long names, like Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet?
Dramatic reading by Damon Norko (of the Submensas) of my story, "My Ghost," at my cousin David Eric Selvin's Halloween party! Delta of your life. youtu.be/PiJsxoi48vE?... @rfpress.bsky.social
My Ghost, by Hugh Behm-Steinberg, as read by Damon Norko. 11/01/25.
YouTube video by What's All the Racket?
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November 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Dramatic reading by Damon Norko (of the Submensas) of my story, "My Ghost," at my cousin David Eric Selvin's Halloween party! Delta of your life. youtu.be/PiJsxoi48vE?... @rfpress.bsky.social
If your ghost is an asshole, does that mean you're an asshole, and other fun topics in my new story up at Roi Fainéant!
What happens if you meet your own ghost and you really can't stand the guy? Find out in "My Ghost" by @hughbehmsteinberg.bsky.social, a work of fabulism featured in our 90th edition. It's live now, unlike the title character.
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October 28, 2025 at 3:33 PM
If your ghost is an asshole, does that mean you're an asshole, and other fun topics in my new story up at Roi Fainéant!
My ghost only smokes Camel Unfiltered’s and has a thing for Sunchips.
What happens when you can’t deal with the day in day out of this horrible reality we all find ourselves in? One word; Fabulism. “My Ghost”by Hugh Behm-Steinberg @hughbehmsteinberg.bsky.social is piece that lives up to its genre in the 90th edition of the press out on Sunday 10/26.
October 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
My ghost only smokes Camel Unfiltered’s and has a thing for Sunchips.
Reposted by Hugh Behm-Steinberg
October 19, 2025 at 3:13 PM
If you're around Barcelona, come along to us read. This Saturday 5-7pm at Backstory Books (Carrer de Mallorca, 330). Trippy and interactive. And I promise to read at least one poem about the moon.
October 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
If you're around Barcelona, come along to us read. This Saturday 5-7pm at Backstory Books (Carrer de Mallorca, 330). Trippy and interactive. And I promise to read at least one poem about the moon.
Parachutes I have a new story in Afterimages! It's called Parachutes and it's about love. And also parachutes.
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Parachutes
I jump out of my brother’s airplane. By Hugh Behm-Steinberg
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October 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Parachutes I have a new story in Afterimages! It's called Parachutes and it's about love. And also parachutes.
open.substack.com/pub/thirtywe...
open.substack.com/pub/thirtywe...
Can’t wait! My piece is called “Parachutes,” and it’s about never knowing when you might need one.
Chilly days are coming. Ghoulish nights are afoot. October’s Afterimages will have a rare 5-piece roster of primarily fiction, a memoir, and a book review. Just remember: you’re not seeing double (or a ghost) just simply quality literature. @tomsnarsky.bsky.social @hughbehmsteinberg.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Can’t wait! My piece is called “Parachutes,” and it’s about never knowing when you might need one.
Was thinking about sending work to a prestigious place that has never accepted my work and tends to favor those who pay to attend their workshops, but I came to my senses. Best $5.00 I never spent.
August 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Was thinking about sending work to a prestigious place that has never accepted my work and tends to favor those who pay to attend their workshops, but I came to my senses. Best $5.00 I never spent.
I think working on a short story is like making an oil painting. What I think is a micro that I need to get published right away is often just the sketch underneath, and each time I revise what I'm doing is adding layers and letting them dry.
August 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I think working on a short story is like making an oil painting. What I think is a micro that I need to get published right away is often just the sketch underneath, and each time I revise what I'm doing is adding layers and letting them dry.
Great story!
Once upon a time i worked in southern Idaho, monitoring plants. It was a very formative time in my life. This story (my first ever published flash, i think) comes from that time. Now out at ergot.! 👶🌵
"Look! A cactus! Like a cup on the ground. It holds a little pool of water. In the little pool of water is a malformed baby, too small, but it knows everything."
Today on ergot.: 'THE THINGS WE SHOULD HAVE ASKED THE BABY' by Kay Vaindal @kayv.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/Kay_...
Today on ergot.: 'THE THINGS WE SHOULD HAVE ASKED THE BABY' by Kay Vaindal @kayv.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/Kay_...
July 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Great story!
I'm in the latest, most fabulous issue of 10 by 10, along with nine other great writers! My story's called "Wolf Clothes," it's eight stories into the pdf, and it's about how far you can get when you show someone your teeth. tinyurl.com/97u6du7t
10 By 10 Flash Issue #30 Now Available – 10 By 10 Flash
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July 14, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I'm in the latest, most fabulous issue of 10 by 10, along with nine other great writers! My story's called "Wolf Clothes," it's eight stories into the pdf, and it's about how far you can get when you show someone your teeth. tinyurl.com/97u6du7t
Reposted by Hugh Behm-Steinberg
Are you in Ireland this month? Come out to hear these Canadian authors in Dublin!
rob mclennan (ON BEAUTY) and Christine McNair (Toxemia) read at Books Upstairs on July 13 at 2 pm with Irish poets Christodoulos Makris and Éireann Lorsung.
booksupstairs.ie/events/
#poetry #literature #events
rob mclennan (ON BEAUTY) and Christine McNair (Toxemia) read at Books Upstairs on July 13 at 2 pm with Irish poets Christodoulos Makris and Éireann Lorsung.
booksupstairs.ie/events/
#poetry #literature #events
July 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Are you in Ireland this month? Come out to hear these Canadian authors in Dublin!
rob mclennan (ON BEAUTY) and Christine McNair (Toxemia) read at Books Upstairs on July 13 at 2 pm with Irish poets Christodoulos Makris and Éireann Lorsung.
booksupstairs.ie/events/
#poetry #literature #events
rob mclennan (ON BEAUTY) and Christine McNair (Toxemia) read at Books Upstairs on July 13 at 2 pm with Irish poets Christodoulos Makris and Éireann Lorsung.
booksupstairs.ie/events/
#poetry #literature #events
Thrilled to wake up to a story acceptance by MoonPark Review! It's called "Like Every Good Idea I Have Before I Open My Eyes." People drink tea in it. @moonparkreview.bsky.social
July 3, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Thrilled to wake up to a story acceptance by MoonPark Review! It's called "Like Every Good Idea I Have Before I Open My Eyes." People drink tea in it. @moonparkreview.bsky.social