Tag: Hugh Behm-Steinberg

  • Side A Fiction: “Pieterjan Thyjssen” by Hugh Behm-Steinberg

    Side A Fiction: “Pieterjan Thyjssen” by Hugh Behm-Steinberg

    Pieterjan Thyjssen For Peter Bullen One day during my morning walk I ran into Jim sporting the most staggering of haircuts. All the people around us, with their boring lives, their tedious bangs and fauxhawks, walking their shallow dogs, oblivious to the very concept of absolute beauty, each became entangled in leashes as their animals…

  • “Dad’s House,” a short story from The Future by Hugh Behm-Steinberg

    “Dad’s House,” a short story from The Future by Hugh Behm-Steinberg

    Dad’s House I go to the café with my machine, but I’m followed by a smell. No one else around seems to be bothered by it, and though it’s intense, acrid, sour, like my dad’s dirty toothbrush (how could he have kissed our mother after shoving that thing in his mouth?), I make myself get…

  • “Mom’s House”: A Haunted Passages Flash Fiction by Hugh Behm-Steinberg

    “Mom’s House”: A Haunted Passages Flash Fiction by Hugh Behm-Steinberg

    Mom’s House My double is bored; I tell him it’s not my fault—he still looks at me judgmentally. So we have a staring contest, because they’re fun, and the loser has to give the winner a piggyback ride. “All the way to Mom’s house,” I drawl, raising the stakes. “Smoking cigarettes,” my double shoots back, knowing…

  • ANIMAL CHILDREN, Hugh Behm-Steinberg’s surreal microfiction collection from Nomadic Press, reviewed by Tyler Dempsey

    ANIMAL CHILDREN, Hugh Behm-Steinberg’s surreal microfiction collection from Nomadic Press, reviewed by Tyler Dempsey

    Note I Feverishly Add 12 Hours Before the Speech In front of Death and everyone, I bury the lede in the mirror: “What sort of book is this? Is it poetry? Fiction? Something else? So a good jumping off point might be to examine the idea of genre, starting with asking the class how they…

  • Hugh Behm-Steinberg Flash Fiction: “Wallace Stevens”

    Hugh Behm-Steinberg Flash Fiction: “Wallace Stevens”

    Wallace Stevens Anecdote of the Jar  I placed a jar in Tennessee,And round it was, upon a hill.It made the slovenly wildernessSurround that hill.  The wilderness rose up to it,And sprawled around, no longer wild.The jar was round upon the ground.And tall and of a port in air.  It took dominion everywhere.The jar was gray…

  • Two Poems by Hugh Behm-Steinberg

    Two Poems by Hugh Behm-Steinberg

    Monster Dolls Baby monsters with their stuffed teddy bear monster dolls, like regular dolls, only horrific, wounded, dangerous; which baby monsters see as something to teethe and love, to protect and be protected by. Dozens of them, in the secret nursery hidden out back of the house. Lining the bottom of the bed to keep…