Mark C Marino

@markcmarino
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I teach writing at the University of Southern California where I run the Humanities and Critical Code Studies Lab. I write and research digital literature and am the Communication Director for the Electronic Literature Organization.
ELO (un)supervised 2026 | University of Central Florida

Teachers, librarians, counselors: Mrs. Wobbles & the Tangerine House offers free interactive stories for conversations about foster care, adoption, SEL, resilience, imagination, and tough choices.
No worksheets required. Though yes, we have ideas.

https://markcmarino.com/mrsw/
#fostercareawareness #fostercare

Where did the ideas for The Land Down Under come from? Genevieve came up with the idea in fourth grade! Read Mrs. Wobbles & the Tangerine House free online.

https://markcmarino.com/tales/storybook7.html

#fostercareawareness month #middlegradebooks #interactivefiction #fostercare

Ask the AI Oracle to learn about Temperature and Top-P and maybe break the habit of asking AI for advice.

https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/c364be99-6726-4834-b195-d48f879d5ac7

#artificialintelligence

AI My Future: Interactive Oracle Fortune Teller Demo

Explore how AI temperature and Top-P parameters affect response variability with this interactive fortune-telling demo. Experiment with Claude API settings to see how tweaks change predictions.

Claude

A special #fostercareawareness shoutout to the amazing artist Brian Gallagher, who has been part of the Mrs. Wobbles journey since the beginning

These stories are family-made and shared with love.

https://markcmarino.com/mrsw/

#fostercare

If monster action figures come to life, would you stay and fight? Run and hide? Have a dance battle? You decide in Action Figures. D was the driver on this one. We have read it many times at his pre-school!

https://markcmarino.com/tales/storybook8.html

#fostercare #fostercareawareness month

The adventure Spy E.Y.E. begins with a really big choice: read as brother or sister: but it ends with a bigger choice: reunite with mom and dad or protect them?
Play/read it on itch: https://mrswobbles.itch.io/spyeye

#fostercareawareness Month: #fostercare

Have you played the card game battle in Switcheroo? Pit historically inaccurate collectible dolls against each other in the Ana Chrony Card Game. #middlegrade Ages 9+

https://markcmarino.com/tales/storybook4wobbles.html

#fostercareawareness month #fostercare

Taking a break from the Mrs. Wobbles posts to share that Sentence #116 of e-Sig is finally done!

To read the latest update in the novel in my e-signature, just email me or trade with someone who does.

Today we're launching The Land Down Under, Book 5 of Mrs. Wobbles & the Tangerine House on itch.io.

https://mrswobbles.itch.io/land-down-under

In a perfect paper world, what's the cost of fitting in?

This was the tale Genevieve dreamed up in 4th grade! Feat. art by Noel Tinsman-Kongshaug and Brian Gallagher

#fostercare #fostercareawareness month
(free/pay what you want)