Welcome!
Nicholas De Marino is a neurodivergent writer and poet. He founded 5enses and is a foofaraw columnist and Codex member. He’s got several writing credits, degrees, and accolades that have nothing to do with cats. Plus some that do.
As long as we’re pretending people still bother with websites, scroll down and read more.
My latest column:
(foofaraw, Season 5, March 14, 2025)
Recent stories & poems:
“Lights” and “Moonglade”
(Star*Line, Issue 48.2, Spring 2025)
(The Last Girls Club, Issue No. 17, “Lost at Sea,” Spring 2025)
(Molecule: A Tiny Lit Mag, Issue 12, March 15, 2025)
Coming soon:
Awen is publishing my poem
“fuel.” (April 2025)
Micromance is publishing my poem
“Poetic Aggressive” (April 10, 2025)
Password: The Journal of Very Short Poetry is publishing my poem
“(Google Kleenex)” (Issue 2.2, June 30, 2025)
In Another Time Magazine is publishing my poem
“Copy” (Issue 3: “Illumination,” 2025)
The Hooghly Review is publishing my short story
“The Beachland Ballroom” (Issue 4, 2025)
Sci-Fi Lampoon is publishing my short story
“Giant Problems.” (2025)
Hiraeth Publishing is publishing my drabbun
“Flush.” (2025)
Shacklebound Books is reprinting my drabble
“No Paradise.” (Short Fantasy Stories, 2025)
Later on:
Once Upon a Crocodile is publishing my satire
“Presidential Daily Brief: Crab-ageddon.” (Issue 18, autumn/winter 2025)
NUNUM’s Done in a Hundred Anthology 2025 will include my drabble
“In Search Of.” (December 2025)
SciFaikuest is publishing my poems.
(February & May 2026, print editions; May 2026, online edition)
Fiction
“The Apricot Sun” (Cosmic Daffodil Journal, Issue IX, Myth & Metaphor, February 2025)
“Ad Copy Pending” (Altered Reality Magazine, Jan. 20, 2025)
“Rudolpha” (Weird Christmas 2024, Jan. 6, 2025, contest finalist)
“Wind Chill” (Frost Bites: A Ghost Story for Christmas, December 2024, contest finalist)
“No Paradise” (A Story in 100 Words, Dec. 23, 2024)
Pulling a Fast One,” “Family Trouble,” “Hippocratic Oath,” “Gifting” (Friday Flash Fiction, Nov. 22, Nov. 29, Dec. 1, Dec. 2, 2024)
“A Rare Bird,” in Spillwords (Sept. 28, 2024)
Non-fiction & Not fiction
“The Lights Essay” (foofaraw, Season 5, Feb. 14, 2025)
“The Garage” (The Palisades Review, Jan. 22, 2025)
“The Banana Essay” (foofaraw, Season 5, Jan. 17, 2025)
“Provincial Life” (Micromance Magazine, Jan. 15, 2025)
“Buffalo Wild Wings” (Oddball Magazine, Jan. 6, 2025)
“BFFs” (Friday Flash Fiction, Jan. 3, 2025)
“The Singing Essay” (foofaraw, Season 4 pilot, Nov. 14, 2024)
“The Boxing Essay” (foofaraw, Season 4 pilot, Oct. 5, 2024)
Un-fiction & Semi-fiction
“Violet Sap” (View From Atlantis, Issue 117, Feb. 28, 2025)
“Feeding,” “Aquarium,” “Fur Babies,” “A Parade and a Magic Trick,” “Trying,” “(hoop snake)” (Medusa’s Kitchen, Feb. 12, 2025)
“Bukowski in space,” “three Bodhisattvas,” “escaped hyenas,” “Her conclusion …,” “death daisy … ,” “stoned ape stone tape tapas … ,” (Five Fleas Itchy Poetry, Jan. 15, Jan. 25, Feb. 5, March 5, 2025)
“the world ends with a whimper” (Radon Journal, Issue #9, Jan. 15, 2025)
“It’s Not Raining Yet” (Red Ogre Review, December 2024)
Journalism
“Medicine Bow Man’s Trash Also His Treasure” (The Rawlins Daily Times, July 2011, reprint via The Associated Press)
“Rawlins Historian Reflects on History and Family” (The Rawlins Daily Times, March 2011, reprint via The Associated Press)
“Scott ‘Wino’ Weinrich: The Dogged Determination of an Underexposed Rock Legend” (Alarm, 2009 print, 2011 reprint)
“Why Do Flies Rub Their Hands?” (PetsOnMom.com, 2009, quoted in “Super Fly,” by Jonathan Balcombe, 2020)
Publishing & Press
Interview about “the world ends with a whimper,” poetry, and more (Radon Journal, Feb. 20, 2025)
Review of “the world ends with a whimper” (SFF Reviews, Feb. 4, 2025)
Interview about 5enses (The Mile High Show, Ep. 10, Feb. 16, 2015)
5enses (January 2013-January 2019)
Other
One-on-one English lessons (2019-present)
“English for Assholes” (summer-fall 2024)
Literally in Baskets (2014)
A really loud concert I attended (Nov. 2, 2006)
