Marcy’s short story “Whole Foods Was Around the Corner,” inspired by the Occupy Wall Street Movement, is now online at Salon.com. Marcy is also one of the signatories of occupywriters.org.

You can now read Marcy’s new short story “Waiting for Big Bird,” from the anthology Forgotten Borough, on Fictionaut.

Marcy has a brand-new story set in Astoria, Queens in the anthology Forgotten Borough: Writers Come to Terms with Queens, edited by Nicole Steinberg, along with work by Arthur Nersesian, Ron Hogan, Susan Y. Chi, and Julia Alvarez. You can order Forgotten Borough from Amazon or Indiebound.

Every week, Five Chapters publishes a short story in five parts. Right now, they are running Marcy’s “Paris,” along with a contest to win one of five copies of Bad Marie. Here’s how the story starts:

Emily tracked down her biological father in a small, industrial town in Northern Germany. Henry Bean had ducked out of Emily’s life when she was only six months old, not long after her mother had left him for another man.

“Look at you,” he said. “You’re gorgeous.”

They met for the first time at a bar in his neighborhood. He paid for her beer.

“Thanks,” she said quietly. She did not want to appear to be too happy. Already, she adored him.

“The words ‘There are croutons’ have never seemed so sad,” says Fifty-Two Stories editor Cal Morgan of Marcy’s “sinuous long story, with echoes of both The Great Gatsby and The Graduate.”

“Adults at Home,” which originally appeared in Indiana Review and in Love Stories: A Literary Companion to Tennis, is on Fifty-Two Stories now.