H.H. Pak
@hhpak.bsky.social
Aspiring medical student, writer, and artist. Stories in @clarkesworldmagazine.com and @khoreo.bsky.social Co-editor and Art Director for @wyrmholemag.bsky.social
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· Oct 2
Crabs Don't Scream by H.H. Pak
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
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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.
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CONGRATS IZ HUGE HYPE
November 7, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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."
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."
October 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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."
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."
I was not immune to this hype and I’m ever so glad I jumped onboard, what a marvelous read it still haunts me
It didn’t happen to me, but I got to watch The Last Good Thing to Happen on Twitter unfold for @amalelmohtar.com & @maxgladstone.bsky.social back in 2023
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The Twelve Days of Bigolas Dickolas Wolfwood
Dear Friends,
Previously, on Amal Content:
A lot has happened since then.
I truly struggle with how to talk about the past 12 days, during which a viral tweet from an anime fan account with an exce...
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October 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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!! 😊
This was a great read, and same for Never Eaten Vegetables!
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.
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October 6, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Thank you!! 😊
Reposted by H.H. Pak
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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Online now at:
clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_229
Subscriptions available at:
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
October 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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:
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
Online now at:
clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_229
Subscriptions available at:
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
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/
clarkesworldmagazine.com/pak_10_25/
Crabs Don't Scream by H.H. Pak
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
clarkesworldmagazine.com
October 2, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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/
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!
Thank you very much @acwise.bsky.social for reviewing "The Significance Cofactor," it's an honor as always!
September 2, 2025 at 12:02 AM
“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!
Thank you very much @acwise.bsky.social for reviewing "The Significance Cofactor," it's an honor as always!
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!
August 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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!
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!
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www.khoreomag.com/fiction/the-...
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...
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August 25, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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-...
www.khoreomag.com/fiction/the-...
Thank you for such a marvelously written review! I’m so glad NEV resonated with you :)
Bold structure. Vivid imagery. Really, really big ideas. @hhpak.bsky.social’s intricate, heartfelt “Never Eaten Vegetables” in @clarkesworldmagazine.com swings for the bleachers, hitting moons out of orbit and into that dark empty place we try to call home. Great.
#sff #shortstories #fiction #scifi
#sff #shortstories #fiction #scifi
July 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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. :)
I just finished Twenty Four Hours. A very moving story, @hhpak.bsky.social I highly recommend it.
July 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Thank you very much for reading and recommending! I'm so glad it touched you. :)
It was a pleasure to rec! Please know that it’s lived rent free in my head since I first read it.
Excited to see my story, Drown-Haunted recommended in this months @wyrmholemag.bsky.social!!!
It was first published in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social and you can check it out here: www.flashfictiononline.com/article/drow...
Big thanks to @hhpak.bsky.social !
It was first published in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social and you can check it out here: www.flashfictiononline.com/article/drow...
Big thanks to @hhpak.bsky.social !
July 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
It was a pleasure to rec! Please know that it’s lived rent free in my head since I first read it.
No words can express how honored I am to receive the H.H. Pak Gets An Award award… to receive an award named after myself receiving an award is an award in itself. I’m not crying, you’re crying. 😭 Thank you SFBC, you’re a fantastic community with fantastic taste!
The Short Fiction Book Club Season 3 awards are up! We've read some remarkable stories this year, and it's time to honor our very favorites.
Thank you to the SFF short fiction community for having an amazing year.
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Thank you to the SFF short fiction community for having an amazing year.
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From the Fantasy community on Reddit: Short Fiction Book Club: Season 3 Awards
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April 17, 2025 at 7:53 AM
No words can express how honored I am to receive the H.H. Pak Gets An Award award… to receive an award named after myself receiving an award is an award in itself. I’m not crying, you’re crying. 😭 Thank you SFBC, you’re a fantastic community with fantastic taste!
WELL DONE TIA AND @angelaliu.bsky.social!!!! Watching you two dazzle the short fiction world with your incredible works has been a marvel to behold and I cannot imagine a more well deserved award for you both. Absolutely fantastic job and massive congratulations!! 🎉
!!! so psyched to be an Astounding Award finalist this year!
Delighted to see such a great group of fellow nominees and it's awesome to be short fiction buddies on the ballot with @angelaliu.bsky.social :D
Delighted to see such a great group of fellow nominees and it's awesome to be short fiction buddies on the ballot with @angelaliu.bsky.social :D
April 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
WELL DONE TIA AND @angelaliu.bsky.social!!!! Watching you two dazzle the short fiction world with your incredible works has been a marvel to behold and I cannot imagine a more well deserved award for you both. Absolutely fantastic job and massive congratulations!! 🎉
Thank you for reviewing and recommending NEV!
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Clarkesworld: Short Fiction Reviews by A.C. Wise
Clarkesworld 1/25 Zun Yu Tan’s “When There Are Two of You: A Documentary” in the January issue of Clarkesworld is set in a world where people can implant digital clones of themselves in their heads…
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April 2, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Thank you for reviewing and recommending NEV!
The imagery and poetic rhythm of this one feels like a children’s rhyme being chanted underwater. The premise is really fun to scratch: hey what if you believed in God so hard you became one?
Hey Hey!!! I’ve got a new Weird seaside Cosmic Horror flash piece out today from @flashfictiononline.bsky.social!Check out Drown-Haunted if you have a minute :)
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Drown-Haunted
Content Warning My mother had a shrine to God in the basement before the flood came. Candles. Statuary. The golden tabernacle. Stained glass looked out on concrete foundation, no portal to a drier …
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March 22, 2025 at 3:29 AM
The imagery and poetic rhythm of this one feels like a children’s rhyme being chanted underwater. The premise is really fun to scratch: hey what if you believed in God so hard you became one?
A story of much needed perseverance and glorious hope, may this be a reflection of our future.
Put this on your fucking Hugo ballots or be dead to me tbh
Inside the House of Wisdom - Lightspeed Magazine
This is the eighth floor of the Al-Ahli Memorial Library, my favorite place in the building. When the elevator door opens, it’s like walking into a quiet circle of glass. So, as we walk, I’m going to ...
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March 20, 2025 at 5:24 AM
A story of much needed perseverance and glorious hope, may this be a reflection of our future.
Chopped onions while reading this. I promise, it was the onions.
Certified triple platinum banger! www.havenspec.com/handsomest-g... (Claire!!! 🥹🥹🥹)
March 19, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Chopped onions while reading this. I promise, it was the onions.
New story is officially out! I hope you all enjoy this one! :D
In "The Significance Cofactor” by @hhpak.bsky.social, a father bumbles his way through family domesticities on his way to the airport. His children do not know that he is not their father at all, but a stranger with a gruesome past, hard-earned advice, and a primal longing for a stolen life.
March 15, 2025 at 9:03 PM
New story is officially out! I hope you all enjoy this one! :D
Props to my eight grade student who angrily said that if Dr. Jekyll wanted to be a good person so badly, he should have just been a better friend or donated to charity instead of taking a shortcut. Based.
March 13, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Props to my eight grade student who angrily said that if Dr. Jekyll wanted to be a good person so badly, he should have just been a better friend or donated to charity instead of taking a shortcut. Based.
<3 So much love to my fellow co-editor!! There are many excellent candidates for the Astounding, but the intrepid @tiatashiro.bsky.social (in her second year of eligibility!) is highly deserving! The satisfaction of her plots and meticulous world building will leave you breathless.
@hhpak.bsky.social is a fellow Wyrmhole editor with a stunning control over emotion in their work. They're in their first year of eligibility, but I'll jump the gun and say their novelette "Never Eaten Vegetables," which came out this January, lives in my head rent-free. It's a stunner!
March 10, 2025 at 6:34 AM
<3 So much love to my fellow co-editor!! There are many excellent candidates for the Astounding, but the intrepid @tiatashiro.bsky.social (in her second year of eligibility!) is highly deserving! The satisfaction of her plots and meticulous world building will leave you breathless.
New story dropping in @khoreo.bsky.social in a week! Here’s an out of context mood board to get hyped
March 9, 2025 at 7:43 AM
New story dropping in @khoreo.bsky.social in a week! Here’s an out of context mood board to get hyped
Thank you for the shoutout! I second your enthusiasm for @angelaliu.bsky.social, the range and quality of her work is incredible! Aquarium of Lost Souls is also a favorite of mine! @pelagicnatasha.bsky.social always hits it out of the park with her dark and clever style.
@hhpak.bsky.social writes a lot of stories about loss, and they’re all great. “Scalp” and “Twenty-Four Hours” were very good reads, and I’ll go ahead and spoil next year’s list by saying “Never Eaten Vegetables” will be there
March 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Thank you for the shoutout! I second your enthusiasm for @angelaliu.bsky.social, the range and quality of her work is incredible! Aquarium of Lost Souls is also a favorite of mine! @pelagicnatasha.bsky.social always hits it out of the park with her dark and clever style.
I've been throwing The Lottery at my 6th-8th grade students hoping it'll germinate in their little brains and bloom at some ripe time.
March 6, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I've been throwing The Lottery at my 6th-8th grade students hoping it'll germinate in their little brains and bloom at some ripe time.
Aw thank you for your kind words and for engaging with the story! 🫶
If you want to read a beautifully devastating Sci Fi story, I'd can't not recommend @hhpak.bsky.social's "Never Eaten Vegetables
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Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. This page: Never Eaten Vegetables by H.H. Pak
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February 25, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Aw thank you for your kind words and for engaging with the story! 🫶