Thank you Arula! 🫶

THANK YOU ANGELA I'm super hyped for the recognition you've been getting this awards season too (hooray for Mourning Robot)!

Thank you!

Thank you! <3

Mega congratulations to my fellow finalists, this is an enormous honor! Will always be grateful to Clarkesworld for giving my stories a home. Congratulations on the well deserved Best Short Editor nomination!

SFBC, y’all are a swell group of people, never lose your spark. I am supremely touched by your kind evaluation of my work and honored to receive the SFBC Astounding! Major kudos to all the other skilled writers on this list!

SO well deserved I adored it!

Congratulations Angela, I hope we get to run into each other in Chicago!

Thank you so very much and thank you for your thoughtful reviews of everything I’ve published in the last year!

Thank you so much for giving a home to NEV!

Congratulations to you as well!

Likewise, I loved Alavira, it hit me right in the heart!

Thank you so much Angela I really appreciate all the support and am rooting for you this awards season too! 💖

Thank you Arula! 🫶

Thank you and congratulations to you as well for the double nomination!

Congrats I’m really honored to be nominated alongside your fantastic story!

Words cannot describe how floored I am to be nominated on the Nebula Finalist list among such prolific and skilled peers. This is an unbelievable honor. Thank you so very much to everyone who has read and discussed NEV!

Thank you so much for the shoutout Tia, this entire thread is absolutely delightful!

Honored to have NEV on the discussion list!

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!

thewyrmhole.beehiiv.com/p/the-wyrmho...

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

acwise.net/favorite-sho...

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

Thank you what an honor!