Íde Hennessy's Weird Wide Web
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ABOUT ME
Íde Hennessy (she/they) is a writer, musician, graphic artist, and part-time Opossummoner based in the beautiful but deadly post-apocalyptic wastelands of Northern California. She lives with her very patient partner and three special needs cats who can see ghosts. She is almost never not wearing a beret. It's very windy here.
LONG FICTION
Split Scream volume 7
from Tenebrous Press (March 2025)
My Lost Coast eco-horror novelette Sequoia Point is the second half of Split Scream volume 7, the acclaimed double-feature series edited by Alex Ebenstein! Order direct from Tenebrous Press or wherever books are sold! Check out these author interviews at Dread Central and NightTide Magazine, or this review at Dis-member! Available in print and ebook formats.
SHORT FICTION & POETRY
"The Piano Player Has Eight Arms"
in RECKONING (no. 9, 2025)
This story made Locus Magazine's 2025 Recommended Reading List! Life is NOT better down where it's wetter. At least, not for the staff of Brine & Dine, the second most exclusive restaurant under the sea. Read for free at RECKONING, the magazine for creative writing on environmental justice. Or you can listen to me narrate this story on the Reckoning podcast!
"L'école de Création"
in Cosmic Horror Monthly (no. 61, July 2025)
Cosmic Mime Horror? This is my second story in Cosmic Horror Monthly, and my third story set in Sequoia Point, a fictional town on California's Lost Coast. A corporate team-building retreat at a remote school of physical theatre where something isn't quite right... Get a print or ebook copy directly from the publisher!
"A Body Is Horror"
in Chthonic Matter Quarterly (Winter 2025)
My cosmic horror about chronic illness, in Chthonic Matter Quarterly.The adults had dismissed them as “growing pains,” but my childhood torments hadn’t gone away once I stopped growing taller. They were my constant companions, as inescapable as the fading timber town I grew up in, with its boarded windows and accumulation of drifters who had found the end of their lines...
"A Slightly Different Sunrise from Mercury, Nevada"
in Strange Horizons (Nov. 18, 2024)
In STRANGE HORIZONS. Nominated for a WSFA Small Press Award. Reviewed by Alex Brown at Reactor, Charles Payseur at Locus (who put it on his 2024 Recommended Reading list), and Maria Haskins (also on her 2024 Recommended Reading)! And featured in Strange Horizons' 25th Anniversary list of 2 x 25 Stories.
"Covenants, Conditions, & Restrictions"
in Fusion Fragment (no. 22, August 2024)
Out now in FUSION FRAGMENT: the world may be on fire, but Homeowners Association Newsletters can not be stopped...Residents must remove last year’s holiday decorations and purchase Goluxx YasssTM lifestyle items in the current palette of “Snowmelt” by January 7th. (Yes, even you, Cordelia.)
"RoxysMakeupMoxy6 Gets Real"
in Flash Point SF (Sept. 20, 2024)
My apocalyptic TikTok makeup tutorial at Flash Point SF ! Reviewed in Myna Chang's Flash Roundup!Friends and frenemies, drag queens and drama queens, this will probably be my last tutorial. I’ll be trading the cold glow of my ring light for the warm glow of candlelight soon, with all of you. So, I’ll just rip off the wax strip and get to it...
"The Beach House with Its Back to the Sea"
in The Off-Season (October 2024)
A film crew, a dramatic re-enactment, and an isolated, rugged beach village in the off-season...What could go wrong? Set in my fictionalized version of Shelter Cove, CA (Sequoia Point). In the Coastal New Weird anthology THE OFF-SEASON, edited by Marissa van Uden! Available where books are sold!
"Zero Zero"
in King Ludd's Rag (no. 18, April 2024)
My longer story "Zero Zero," set on New Year's Eve 1999 in a punk rock squat, is in the "lofi literature" two-story zine KING LUDD'S RAG, guest edited by Suzy Eynon!“Do you feel that?” asked Azalea, the hippie housemate. Every punk rock house has a hippie housemate, and nobody knows why...
"Anachronisms"
in Rattus Futura (May, 2024)
My rat god story "Anachronisms" (originally in Cosmic Horror Monthly) appears in this sci-fi anthology depicting the various futures of humanity’s ever-present stowaway.I thought about how much respect this rat must command among other rats, about how ancient it must be to have reached such a size. To take a photo seemed disrespectful...
"Walls Become Webs"
in Trembling With Fear (March 3, 2024)
My first attempt at writing a drabble (a wee story of exactly 100 words) has been published in Horror Tree’s weekly column Trembling With Fear.... It was the unkindest season, and her sisters had already curled into themselves in a futile attempt to implode away from the cold. But I kept the heat on, and she tiptoed out each morning to greet me...
"Ponderous Gray"
in Cursed Morsels (issue 1, 2023)
My weird horror microfiction is one of two stories in the first issue of a new mini-zine from Cursed Morsels Press! The issue's theme is "Reader Beware - The Landlord Lair!" This zine is available as part of a five zine bundle from the press (just 99 cents for pdf version, or $6 for physical)!
"How to Talk to Your Luvvbot-3000 About WWIV"
in Strange Machines (2023)
Thrilled to announce I have a story in this microfiction anthology from Apex Publications, with some incredibly talented sci-fi authors! This anthology is a yearly Kickstarter exclusive for Apex Magazine.
"Anachronisms"
in Cosmic Horror Monthly (#33, March 2023)
My first story to appear in Cosmic Horror Monthly....I knew after years of living together there was no use in trying to wake Owen—I could only guide him through the house. Sometimes I envied him, as a light sleeper, but more often I was fascinated by our differences. His problem was that his body wouldn’t sleep—a hazard of productivity implants—and mine was that my mind wouldn’t...
"Hallmark Holiday Movies Rejected for Being Too California"
in Points in Case (December 2021)
...This is where she bumps into rakishly handsome high school sweetheart Rattlesnake, whose cannabis farm has fallen on hard times due to legalization driving prices down. When Hayley realizes she still has feelings for him, she bids $200,000 over the asking price on his land, then convinces him to help her turn it into a much more lucrative Extra-Tall Christmas Tree Farm...
"A Visit from Santifa Claus"
in ROBOT BUTT (December 2021)
A very-2020 parody of “A Visit from St. Nicholas” AKA “The Night Before Christmas,” in the POV of someone who watches way too many hysterical right-wing pundits....In the middle of a nightmare that I was held prisoner in a FEMA death camp by Rachel Maddow in thigh-high boots, I was startled awake by what could only be described as a clatter...
"Recipe for My Holiday Aspic of Despair"
in THE HAVEN (December 2021)
9. Try to forget that you spent about 7 hours of your precious alone time preparing this (the only time you seem to have anymore after pushing everyone out of your life like a snowplow). Check on your aspic in another 6 months...Read the rest in The Haven.
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