Biblical fiction by Mike Casper
Stone Thrower
Fifteen stories of overlooked people in the Bible
Historical fiction that steps into the quiet spaces between familiar biblical moments and gives the forgotten a voice.
Fifteen warm, vivid stories imagine the lives of ordinary people whose paths crossed the biblical record, revealing faith and humanity in history’s quiet spaces.
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Stories from the quiet spaces
The Bible remembers kings, prophets, disciples, and miracles. Yet every great event also had witnesses whose names were never recorded: people who stood in the crowd, lived nearby, carried private burdens, or discovered that an ordinary day had suddenly become part of a much greater story.
Stone Thrower enters those quiet spaces. Across fifteen short stories, Mike Casper imagines the lives of overlooked people whose paths cross the biblical record. Some are close to events readers will recognize immediately. Others approach those moments from the edge, bringing questions, fears, humor, hopes, and histories of their own.
Faith seen through ordinary lives
These stories do not attempt to replace or revise Scripture. They use historical fiction to consider the human lives surrounding it. What might someone have carried into a biblical encounter? What might that person have noticed? And after an extraordinary moment passed, how might an ordinary life have changed?
The collection is interested in people rather than monuments—in weakness as well as courage, uncertainty as well as faith. Its characters are not distant figures posed against a painted background. They work, argue, worry, misunderstand, laugh, grieve, and sometimes find grace where they least expect it.
That human scale gives Stone Thrower its warmth. Familiar biblical settings become immediate without losing their mystery, while forgotten lives are allowed, for a little while, to step forward and speak.
A companion collection to Witnesses
Stone Thrower stands on its own, but it also makes a natural companion to Witnesses: Nine Stories from the Margins of the Gospels. Together, the two collections offer twenty-four stories about ordinary people caught at extraordinary moments—people who witnessed, encountered, or were forever changed by events preserved in Scripture.
Readers of biblical fiction, Christian historical fiction, and character-centered short stories may begin with either book. Stone Thrower offers fifteen opportunities to pause beside a familiar account and look beyond the best-known names. Witnesses continues that journey through nine perspectives from the margins of the Gospels.
The question behind both collections is simple: What happened to the others? Stone Thrower imagines fifteen possible answers.
