Mickey Spillane and Peter DeMarco

My first published story about meeting Mickey Spillane.

The New York Times

A “Modern Love” story about meeting my wife and becoming a New York City high school teacher.

The New York Times

Peter DeMarco, apple martini and Modern Love column

Fiction:

“Background Noise,” New Flash Fiction Review

“Vocabulary,” Maudlin House

“Blue Shirt,” Does It Have Pockets?

Now Playing,Flash Fiction Magazine

Casting Call,Monkeybicycle

The Commuter,” Prime Number Magazine (Issue 11.7)

“Vacation,” SmokeLong Quarterly

“The Fireman,” decomP (Best of Ten Years)

  • “The Fireman” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and a storySouth Millions Writers Award and featured in decomP’s “Best of Ten Years.”

Non-Fiction:

“Junk,” trampset

Trophy,” Pithead Chapel

War Games,” Cleaver

1977,” Hippocampus

They Teach You Everything,” The Palisades Review

My short story “Background Noise” won Second Prize in New York Stories’ fiction contest.

Peter DeMarco and Background Noise story