H.H. Pak

I’d greatly appreciate if people could consider voting for either of my two novelettes, Never Eaten Vegetables or Crabs Don’t Scream! I’m so honored to see both stories made it to the finals!

Omg happy birthday Arula I hope your day is marvelous! 🎊🎂

2025 has certainly been eventful, but the inspiration continues to flow freely. I am thankful for everyone who has taken time throughout this past year to create, commentate, and come together as a community. Stories will preserve and save us, so here's to all the storytellers out there!

The WYRMHOLE (Oct 1, 2025) Ft. Love, Death, and... hey what do you mean that's copyrighted?!

When I took the reigns as the October Wyrmhole editor, I took great pleasure in writing out my personal musings on robots as metaphors and the magnitude of their creation in both fiction and reality. If you missed the issue, you can read it below!

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Crabs Don't Scream by H.H. Pak Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

Crabs Don't Scream, published in Clarkesworld, is my slapstick comedy x cosmic horror love letter to anyone who has felt out of sorts with convention, about a dedicated employee journeying through the space-time continuum at the End of the World.

clarkesworldmagazine.com/pak_10_25/

The Significance Cofactor Your children love you. They cry as you leave with promises of souvenirs. You need to catch your flight. Ah, but their runny faces as you get in the car—I do not look.  You’re raising them well. The g...

The Significance Cofactor, published in @khoreo.bsky.social, is a short story told through the philosophical musings of a body-snatching entity from the future who grows increasingly attached to the domestic household they've infiltrated.

www.khoreomag.com/fiction/the-...

Never Eaten Vegetables by H.H. Pak Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

Never Eaten Vegetables published in @clarkesworldmagazine.com features a split narrative between a transport vessel carrying embryos to a different colony and the people those embryos grow up to become. Very grateful for the terrific audience this story garnered!

clarkesworldmagazine.com/pak_01_25/

Here's my 2025 Wrap Up! I pushed two novelettes and one short story out into the light of day, as well as a swanky robot essay for Wyrmhole, (plus oodles of indulgent fanfiction which will NOT see the light of day). Here's a debrief of all that my brain wrought this past year:

Thank you to @acwise.bsky.social for recommending NEV on this list, what an honor! I'm especially proud of the Wyrmhole sweep represented here, it's a joy to create stories alongside such talented and witty peers. <3

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Thank you for the NEV shoutout! It's always a pleasure to be reviewed by you Jay!

Thank you what an honor!

Screaming is a love language too 🙂‍↕️ Thank you for reading! :)

Thank you to @locusmag.bsky.social for the shoutout and the review @acwise.bsky.social! The appreciation for NEV means so much, and it’s especially such a pleasure to be featured alongside @somtoihezue.bsky.social’s incredible novelette!

It’s such an honor to be featured alongside your work! 😭

Wahhh thank you for the shoutout Fiona!! 🫶🫶

CONGRATS IZ HUGE HYPE

This is how I think punctuation marks would react to you misusing them:

Period: "You absolute donkey. Get out of here."
Semicolon: "How DARE you! Never touch me again!"
Colon: "Come on man, not cool."
Comma: "I really wish you wouldn't, but I get it."
Em Dash: "Anything you want baby, abuse me."

Extremely well deserved, huge congratulations!!

I was not immune to this hype and I’m ever so glad I jumped onboard, what a marvelous read it still haunts me

Thank you!! 😊

Cover art by Quentin Stipp features a robot and two humans walking into a forest and towards a tall building with red tubes that have burst through the upper levels and into the sky.

Our 19th anniversary issue of Clarkesworld features original fiction by Isabel J. Kim, Fiona Moore, H.H. Pak, Greg Egan, Liu Maijia, Carrie Vaughn, and Phoebe Barton.

Online now at:
clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_229

Subscriptions available at:
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Crabs Don't Scream by H.H. Pak Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

It’s an honor to announce that my new story, “Crabs Don’t Scream,” has been published in this month’s issue of @clarkesworldmagazine.com! Featuring an aroace-coded slapstick comedy about the horrors of falling in love across the space time continuum.

clarkesworldmagazine.com/pak_10_25/

“The story provides a lovely reflection on the grounding nature of mundane details, and how little things can come to mean so much when one has lived a life defined by war."

Thank you very much @acwise.bsky.social for reviewing "The Significance Cofactor," it's an honor as always!

I cannot thank you enough for lending your voice to bring this story to life! Thank you as well for bearing with my voice notes, I was so grateful to hear the change in accents haha!

My elevator pitch for “The Significance Cofactor” is an episode of Bluey but with body snatching, time travel, space travel, war commentary, and gray ethics. Please enjoy!

The Significance Cofactor Your children love you. They cry as you leave with promises of souvenirs. You need to catch your flight. Ah, but their runny faces as you get in the car—I do not look.  You’re raising them well. The g...

My story, “The Significance Cofactor,” is now available to listen and read at @khoreo.bsky.social! Huge thank you to the talented @cyrusrodas.bsky.social for giving my morally gray narrator a voice, the narration sounds incredible!

www.khoreomag.com/fiction/the-...

And yet here you are 😂 With respect and solidarity, go pack MR!

Oh goodness, how kind! NEV was definitely a passion project. Amid the bioethical and capitalist commentary, it was very important to me that it struck a heartfelt message at its core. I'm very pleased that a lot of readers like you picked up on that, and largely satisfied with it as a story!

Thank you for such a marvelously written review! I’m so glad NEV resonated with you :)

Thank you very much for reading and recommending! I'm so glad it touched you. :)