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Anna Vangala Jones
@anniejowrites.bsky.social
author of TURMERIC & SUGAR (Thirty West). stories in Wigleaf, Short Story Long, Berkeley Fiction Review, HAD, Craft, AAWW, etc.

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I have a new short story in the wonderful Terrazzo Editions today called “Maybe Mary” & I’d be thrilled if you give it a read. so grateful to amazing editor Gina Nutt. you can find her interview with me here too www.terrazzoeditions.com/terrazzomag/...
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I have a new story in Short Story Long! many thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social, a wonderful editor who always makes my writing better, the incredible Zoë Petersen for her beautiful original art, & all of you who take the time to read this one ♡ ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/a-love-sto...
November 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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“This is the one in which their paths never cross. It is unclear what their opinions of each other would have been had they ever met.”

One couple, nine different lives in which they orbit, meet, and possibly fall in love. Fabulous story by @anniejowrites.bsky.social in Short Story Long!
I have a new story in Short Story Long! many thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social, a wonderful editor who always makes my writing better, the incredible Zoë Petersen for her beautiful original art, & all of you who take the time to read this one ♡ ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/a-love-sto...
November 26, 2025 at 3:37 AM
I have a new story in Short Story Long! many thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social, a wonderful editor who always makes my writing better, the incredible Zoë Petersen for her beautiful original art, & all of you who take the time to read this one ♡ ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/a-love-sto...
November 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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🚨 🚨 NEW @anniejowrites.bsky.social ON SHORT STORY, LONG DAY! 🚨 🚨
“A Love Story Told in Nine Lives” by Anna Vangala Jones
“This is the one in which they meet, fall in love, and get married. They will grow old together.”
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November 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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I really, really loved this one. @anniejowrites.bsky.social is always so good, but this really touched me.

"They remember and think of each other often in the intervening years between their conversations and meaningful glances."
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Of course this is so beautiful and good 😍😭
November 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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But that harmless distance between them ballooned over time into an impassable canyon.
Love the structure, love the story, @anniejowrites.bsky.social 🌷
November 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Excited to have a flash in the beautiful latest issue of The Maine Review.♥️

www.mainereview.com/the-wing/
The Wing - The Maine Review
The morning Nadine’s feathers sprouted, a light snow fell. She was standing outside, watching Meg board the school bus, noticing how the little girl’s hair, frizzy like her own, glistened with snow, m...
www.mainereview.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Just found out my story "After" published in Hunger Mountain Review is being nominated for a Pushcart!
November 4, 2025 at 7:14 PM
nice tenth revision you got there. would be a shame if the whole thing was better about four drafts ago
November 24, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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I have a new short story in the wonderful Terrazzo Editions today called “Maybe Mary” & I’d be thrilled if you give it a read. so grateful to amazing editor Gina Nutt. you can find her interview with me here too www.terrazzoeditions.com/terrazzomag/...
October 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM
don’t touch that it’s my emotional support second short story collection I must write before my first novel
November 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM
receive an email. send an email. receive an email. send an email. one must imagine sisyphus happy
November 20, 2025 at 4:44 AM
sorry to report that if you want to get up early to write for an hour & exercise outside, you have to get out of bed when the alarm goes off in the morning
November 19, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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Short Story, Long gonna be closing out 2025 so strong.
November 16, 2025 at 4:08 PM
when it rains all weekend, you are required to order more books than you could possibly read in your lifetime
November 17, 2025 at 4:48 AM
nancy drew & the mystery of why I keep refreshing my social media accounts instead of reading a book
November 13, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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I have a new tiny story in @havehashad.com today about fleeting connections. thanks as always to @aaronburch.bsky.social, one of the best editors around, & to all of you who read this one ♡ 💀 🪦 ♡ www.havehashad.com/hadposts/our...
September 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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I have a new story in Craft Literary, “Two Old Friends and a Ghost Walk Into the Woods”, about the people & places that haunt us. would be so thrilled for you to read this one 👻 🌲 🤍 www.craftliterary.com/2025/09/19/t...
Two Old Friends and a Ghost Walk into the Woods by Anna Vangala Jones - CRAFT
We’d agreed to never come back to this place yet here we are. The wind whispers through the trees and unsettles our hair, trying to remind us to leave. Why would we return to these woods? “I don’t car...
www.craftliterary.com
September 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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I have a new story in Short Story Long today! it’s about the mystery of people you come across often but can’t truly know. many thanks to wonderful editor @aaronburch.bsky.social, Zoë Petersen for the lovely art, & any of you who read it ♡
The Legend of the Convenience Store Cashier by Anna Vangala Jones
"He was beautiful but not in the way of a movie star or something. Beautiful in the regular person way. Beautiful to us."
ashortstorylong.substack.com
September 19, 2023 at 3:48 PM
writing is so funny. I’m crying that my characters are sad & can’t find love even though I made them up & I’m the one who did this
November 12, 2025 at 4:54 AM
any day I end up writing immediately turns into the best day
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 AM
the bruce springsteen residency (for people sick of trying to write their books): drive all night, let the wind blow back your hair, dance in the dark, live with the sadness, love with all the madness in your soul
November 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM