Super-hyped to be part of the flood, with a Barcelona piece that bookends a story I published in @dishsoapquart.bsky.social. It's called "Orderings" and it will be part of the flood at 6:50 am BST.

I'm very happy to say my story, "The Call of Adventure," is now up at Midway Journal! It's about names, both given and chosen. midwayjournal.com/the-call-of-...

Thanks! I'll try to send something trampset's way when your submissions window opens. In the meantime, you might like this one too: midwayjournal.com/the-call-of-...

Ellipses are for People Who Can’t Handle Circles and Need More Time to Process the Terrible Miracle that is Life

I'm so excited to have my work featured in issue 50 of @bendinggenres.bsky.social. This one's got a sexy veterinarian in it. It's called, "Ellipses are for People Who Can’t Handle Circles and Need More Time to Process the Terrible Miracle that is Life." bendinggenres.com/ellipses-are...

I'm reading here, and I'm reading first, so you all should be there on time!

In another one of those never give up moments, I just got a story accepted that was rejected twenty one times!

The Dots There’s a mole on my left forearm, close by my wrist, half an inch before the end of my radius. Just a speck, had it all my life. But one night while brushing my teeth, I noticed my mole was no lon…

Delighted to have this story out in the world! It's called "The Dots," and it's in the latest Flash Fiction Magazine! It's about love, and not being afraid of it. #flashfiction flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2026/03...

Thanks!

Some very happy news: I just got three microfictions accepted at Denver Quarterly!

I have a new story up today in Revolution John! It's called "Babies" and it's got babies in it. Really cute babies. You've been warned. revolutionjohnjournal.wordpress.com/2026/03/23/m...

For purely selfish reasons everyone tell me what forthcoming collections of this sort you’re looking forward to so I can try and review them

Writers -- where are the cool kids submitting their work these days?

Comment your favorite lit mags below and we might feature your pick on a list, who knows ;)

Zillow image of our old home in Berkeley after the flippers remodeled it and put it back on the market.

I'm super happy to have another story published, this time in
@godscrueljokelp.bsky.social . Also horror, it's called "Wants," and it's about what your presale home pest inspection might discover. www.godscrueljokelit.com/behm-steinbe...

I have a story called "Drugs" I've been sending out. So when it gets rejected it's nice to know at least some people are saying no to drugs.

Thanks! For awhile my wife had to get eye shots every six months or so and I think that filtered its way into the story.

ergot. innovative + experimental horror

I have a new story up in @ergot.bsky.social! It's called "Ice Cream;" it's about ice cream and what we'll do when we think we're going to get some. www.ergot.press/authors/Hugh...

We’re going to make so much progress!

Benny Goodman playing the clarinet.

I feel super happy to have a new story up in Flash Boulevard. It's called "Clarinet." It's about clarinets. And cynicism. flashboulevard.wordpress.com/2026/02/21/h...

I'm reading here tonight!

I loved the ending.

Thanks @francinewitte.bsky.social for your support of my work!

A half finished cup of coffee on a table in a diner.

I have a new story up in the latest @soflopojo.bsky.social. It's called "Why Occasionally It’s Hard to Just Be Friends with People Who Practice Witchcraft." What a person can do to a cup of coffee when they set their mind to it. www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com/flash-40-feb...

Surreal-Absurd Sampler Hugh Behm-Steinberg — Mercurius “I like surrealism/absurdism/fabulism/whatever you want to call it because it’s fun, because that mode still gives you so much room. It’s protective gear to wear when facing danger; it’s good for pain...

And one more, published in Mercurius, featuring time travel: www.mercurius.one/home/surreal...

Here's another squirrel story of mine, published in *82 Review: star82review.com/11.4/behm-st...

Squirrel in a tree.

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 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…

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...

@hfr.bsky.social @yourimpossiblevoice.com

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...

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...

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:

At The Park | Literary Garage

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