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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
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