Hugh Behm-Steinberg’s fiction can be found in X-Ray, Roi Fainéant, ergot, Heavy Feather Review and Denver Quarterly. His short story "Taylor Swift" won the Barthelme Prize from Gulf Coast, and his story "Goodwill" was picked as one of Wigleaf’s Top Fifty Very Short Fictions. A collection of prose poems and microfiction, Animal Children, was published by Nomadic/Black Lawrence Press. He lives in Barcelona, where he’s the fiction editor of Mercurius. https://linktr.ee/hughsteinberg. You can read more of Hugh's work here Hawkeye and here Dodo Eraser.
I go to the bear store to get some work done on my bear. It’s down the street a bit from the horse store, but unfortunately bears have an excellent sense of smell. “Come on,” my bear says. “Horses! I just want to look, please?” I’m terrible at arguing with my bear, so off we go. Beside the horse store… Read more →