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, April 11, 2025)
(The Hooghly Review, Issue 4, Spring 2025)
“(lottery of stones),” “(a space cat pounces),” “(dizzy grey sea foam)”
(5-7-5 Haiku Journal, April 11, 15, & 25, 2025)
(Micromance, April 10, 2025)
(The Last Girls Club, Issue 17, “Lost at Sea,” Spring 2025)
(Molecule: A Tiny Lit Mag, Issue 12, March 15, 2025)
Coming soon:
Sci-Fi Lampoon is publishing my short story
“Giant Problems” (Spring, 2025)
Awen is publishing my poem
“fuel.” (Issue 128, Spring 2025)
5-7-5 Haiku Journal is publishing my poems
(Spring, Summer 2025)
Password: The Journal of Very Short Poetry is publishing my poem
“(Google Kleenex)” (Issue 2.2, June 30, 2025)
Black Petals is publishing my poem
“Phil, The Chosen One” (Issue 112, July, 2025)
Star*Line is publishing my poems
“As Sweet as Silk” and “(steel bodies rust)” (Summer/Fall 2025)
Later on:
In Another Time is publishing my poem
“Copy” (Issue 3: “Illumination,” 2025)
Hiraeth Publishing is publishing my drabbun
“Flush” (2025)
Shacklebound Books is reprinting my drabble
“No Paradise” (Short Fantasy Stories, 2025)
SCAB is publishing my short story
“Fearsome” (Issue 17, September, 2025)
Once Upon a Crocodile is publishing my short story
“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, and August 2026, print editions; May 2026, online edition)
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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