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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 VI (May/Jun ’26)
featuring a caesarian warning, an introductory catalogue to the canon of canons, and much more
“Cascading worth, one work at a time”
Stories
JULIUS CAESAR by Shay Martin
A few words of wisdom to the young, in the vein of Hall and Oates’ “Maneater.” Where that song concerns a warning of a particular woman, this work is the same for a particular man.
DAY TWO, STORY EIGHT by Stewart Berg
A selection from The Pentameron; or, The Five Days of Fifty Stories, as Told by a Group of Friends Escaping the Covid Pandemic, a reworking of the 15th Century work “Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles.” Part romance and part satire of romance, The Pentameron features a group of Puget Sound friends who, spending a week on Lake Chelan, tell stories — all of them true — of the people at home.
A JOB LIKE ANY OTHER by Connor Nathans
The story of a workplace experience that left one with a lot to learn from
THE SONG OF THE JOLLY HEADMEN by Mark Gullick
Eight jolly headmen. Will there be more?
WAKEUP CALL by Stephen Paul Foster
An early-chapter excerpt from Stephen Paul Foster’s Fatal Friendship, a novel in which is solved the age-old Rousseau-Hobbes debate, merely requiring a grisly murder (or two)
On Stories
THE MATTER OF B.C. by Stewart Berg
An introductory catalogue to the canon of canons