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The Falling Marbles Bimonthly
An every-other-month offering of and about fiction from the premier publisher of literary fiction in the State of Texas
ISSUE VIII (Sep/Oct ’26)
featuring a peek at rebirth from the rubbish, an anecdote from the early days, and much more
“Cascading worth, one work at a time”
Stories
INAPPROPRIATE TEACHING METHODS by Mark Gullick
An early-chapter excerpt from the novel Vanikin in the Underworld, the story of the furthest down and possible redemption of an educator who can’t escape education
THE RESULT OF THE CIVILIZATIONAL CONVENTION by Shay Martin
An anecdote from the early days
A SCHOOLING LIKE ANY OTHER by Connor Nathans
The story of a pre-high experience that left one with a lot to learn from
AMERICAN HALFLING by Shay Martin
The all-thought-none-spoken complaint of our times, in the vein of the Guess Who’s “American Woman.” Where that song concerns a certain type of woman, this work is about a certain type of man.
On Stories
A THOUGHT OR TWO ON ‘LOCUST’ by Stewart Berg
A recommendation (of a kind) of Nathanael West’s 1939 novel The Day of the Locust