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.
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My latest column:
(foofaraw, Season 5, May 30, 2025)
Recent stories & poems:
(The Hooghly Review, Issue 4, Spring 2025)
(In Another Time, Issue 3: Illumination, June 2025)
(View From Atlantis, Issue 121, June 12, 2025)
“(persona … )” and “(haunted chess set)”
(Five Fleas Itchy Poetry, June 11, 2025)
(dadakuku, June 6 2025)
(Awen, Issue 128, May 2025)
Coming soon:
Procrastinating Writers United‘s THE YELLING CONTINUES anthology
will include one of my poems (2025)
is publishing one of my poems (Issue 305, June 2025)
is publishing one of my poems (June 2025)
Password: The Journal of Very Short Poetry
is publishing one of my poems (Issue 2.2, June 30, 2025)
is publishing one of my poems (Issue 112, July, 2025)
is reprinting one of my drabbles (Short Fantasy Stories, July 2025)
is publishing some of my poems (Summer/Fall 2025)
Later on:
is publishing one of my short stories (2025)
is publishing one of my drabbuns (2025)
is publishing one of my poems (mid-August, 2025)
is publishing one of my short stories (Issue 17, September, 2025)
is publishing one of my short stories (Issue 18, autumn/winter 2025)
NUNUM’s Done in a Hundred Anthology 2025
will include one of my drabbles (December 2025)
is publishing some of my poems
(February, May, and August 2026, print editions;
May and August 2026, online editions)
Selected Fiction
“The Apricot Sun” (Cosmic Daffodil Journal, Issue IX, Myth & Metaphor, February 2025)
“Rudolpha” (Weird Christmas 2024, Jan. 6, 2025, contest finalist)
“Wind Chill” (Frost Bites: A Ghost Story for Christmas, December 2024, contest finalist)
Selected Non-fiction & Not fiction
“The Eggs Essay” (foofaraw, Season 5, March 14, 2025)
“The Garage” (The Palisades Review, Jan. 22, 2025)
“The Banana Essay” (foofaraw, Season 5, Jan. 17, 2025)
Selected Un-fiction & Semi-fiction
“Violet Sap” (View From Atlantis, Issue 117, Feb. 28, 2025)
“the world ends with a whimper” (Radon Journal, Issue #9, Jan. 15, 2025)
“It’s Not Raining Yet” (Red Ogre Review, December 2024)
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