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

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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · Nov 25
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...
Title: “A Love Story Told in Nine Lives” Author: Anna Vangala Jones An illustration of a man walking past a cafe window. Inside the cafe a woman is sitting and drinking coffee at a table by the window and the man is looking at her as he walks.
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anniejowrites.bsky.social
a writing residency on a train. you look out the window, eavesdrop, have conversations with strangers, read, nap, & hopefully write before it ends
January 19, 2026 at 4:48 AM
anniejowrites.bsky.social
a writing residency on a train. you look out the window, eavesdrop, have conversations with strangers, read, nap, & hopefully write before it ends
January 19, 2026 at 4:48 AM
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mpershan.bsky.social
Every time I reread this from @anniejowrites.bsky.social I think about how every lost relationship is a kind of death but then again how death itself is just a kind of lost relationship, and then how it feels like this could have been a 10-page story but it's not.

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Our second date was meant to be unconventional and unromantic by Anna Vangala Jones
—we thought we were funny when we suggested meeting at the laundromat because we bonded on the first date about putting it off so long we'd almost reached the bathing suits as underwear stage. But whe...
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January 18, 2026 at 9:01 PM
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thirtywestph.com
Recent order; short story lover ♥️
January 18, 2026 at 4:50 PM
anniejowrites.bsky.social
planned to work on my novel so naturally I ended up writing a brand new short story that I love instead
January 17, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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anniejowrites.bsky.social
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...
Title: “A Love Story Told in Nine Lives” Author: Anna Vangala Jones An illustration of a man walking past a cafe window. Inside the cafe a woman is sitting and drinking coffee at a table by the window and the man is looking at her as he walks.
November 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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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/...
title: Maybe Mary author: Anna Vangala Jones a mosaic pattern in blue, tan, and purple title: Maybe Mary author: Anna Vangala Jones a mosaic pattern in blue, tan, and purple quote from story: “She says she doesn’t want to talk about the disappearance. Anything but that is fine.”
October 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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anniejowrites.bsky.social
I have a new story in @havehashad.com today! my third one 💀 🏚️ ✨ grateful as always to editor @aaronburch.bsky.social for providing a wonderful home for my words + to all of you who read it ♡ www.havehashad.com/hadposts/the...
At the top of the page is a drawing of a pile of skulls. Underneath is today’s date: March 31, 2025. Then the title of the story and the name of the author: The Haunted House of Things Left Unsaid by Anna Vangala Jones. Below that is the text of the opening lines of the story: “Everyone’s heard the rumors that when you die, they take you into a house you’ve never seen before—real dilapidated and creepy for added effect maybe—and in each room, they make you watch people from throughout the course of your life reading or listening to all the things you’ve wanted to say to them when you were alive but never did. Letters, emails, notes in books, burned CDs, text messages, silent moments”
March 31, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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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...
At the top of the page is a drawing of a pile of skulls. Underneath is today’s date: September 4, 2025. Then the title of the story and the name of the author: Our second date was meant to be unconventional and unromantic by Anna Vangala Jones. Below that is the text of the story: —we thought we were funny when we suggested meeting at the laundromat because we bonded on the first date about putting it off so long we'd almost reached the bathing suits as underwear stage. But when he called to cancel, I worried I should have held onto my mystique a bit longer and not revealed the lazy mess lurking beneath my put together surface yet. "It's not that," he said. "I have to go to a funeral." After I told him how sorry I was, he said, "Want to come?" I joked, "It's too soon but take me to the next one." I appreciated the earnest vulnerability of his response that he could use the company so I said yes. My friends teased me that we'd only been on one date so maybe he was a serial killer and we would be going to my funeral. Weird how we cope with the possibility of being murdered every time we meet someone new by laughing about how hilarious it'll be if it happens, but it's preferable to being paralyzed by it. "He loves Bruce Springsteen, so he can't be that bad," I told them. The funeral was for his lifelong friend—they had first met at only five years old—so it was of course sad. We held hands as they lowered the casket. After everyone else left, we wandered the cemetery chatting about everything and nothing like we were at a coffee shop and he kissed me in front of a tombstone that read, "Beloved and remembered. Until we meet again." He ghosted me after that. When I listen to Bruce at the laundromat, I wonder why our first and last kiss happened amidst graves and death and almost write him to ask. But maybe it's better not to know.
September 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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anniejowrites.bsky.social
I have a new story up at @rejectionlit.bsky.social today! it’s about friendship breakups and the living ghosts that haunt us. so grateful to amazing editor @kevinmkearney.bsky.social & any of you who read it ♡ rejection-letters.com/2025/01/02/n...
Now it’s nothing but flowers (Anna Vangala Jones)
I know I’m her ghost. The one that lingers in the corners of her memory, waiting to strike—when some song by Bruce Springsteen plays, or when she drives by our old favorite diner, or when it rains …
rejection-letters.com
January 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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pintsncupcakes.bsky.social
It's release day for my book! Thank you so much to @jacklegpress.bsky.social and @fulmerford.com
The cover of Every Galaxy a Circle
January 15, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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aaronburch.bsky.social
!!!!!
hand holding paperback copy of TACOMA by Aaron Burch, from Autofocus Books
January 15, 2026 at 1:35 AM
anniejowrites.bsky.social
writing is so funny because you think wow I hope people read this thing I made but also oh no what if people read it
January 14, 2026 at 4:48 PM
anniejowrites.bsky.social
nice short stories you got there. would be a shame if someone suggests you turn one of them into a novel
January 9, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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quotidianwriter.bsky.social
Meeting anyone of great significance in our lives feels like a grand fluke. There's a popular quote that goes, "You haven't met everyone who will love you yet."

That idea is the heart of this beautiful, bittersweet story by @anniejowrites.bsky.social.
ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/a-love-sto...
“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.”
ashortstorylong.substack.com
January 9, 2026 at 4:02 AM
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livesinpages.bsky.social
It was a 2025 goal of mine to send new work to @aaronburch.bsky.social for Short Story, Long and I'm so happy he liked "Home is a Relative Term" enough to give it a, well, home!

It's a story of suburban existentialism, queer panic, and a desire for connection.

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“Home is a Relative Term” by Christopher Gonzalez
"The thing about going home again is that you really do become the person you were when you were last permanently there. I was eighteen when I left for college, a month shy of turning nineteen..."
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January 6, 2026 at 2:34 PM
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pintsncupcakes.bsky.social
Icymi, I have a new story in @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social it has nostalgia for childhood, sinister going ons, and places you can't return to
Sunday Stories: “We Buy Houses”
We Buy Housesby Chloe N. Clark My parents had been planning to move for as long as I could remember. They were always talking about picking everything up and speeding across the state, across the c…
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January 5, 2026 at 3:38 PM
anniejowrites.bsky.social
not to brag but I wrote for about eleven minutes with no breaks
January 6, 2026 at 7:48 AM
anniejowrites.bsky.social
taking my glasses off now. that’s enough seeing for today
January 5, 2026 at 7:48 AM
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emath.bsky.social
Lake, fog, trees, mountains.
January 4, 2026 at 1:41 AM
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danbillyc.bsky.social
"I’m having an affair with distance. The morning house is settled and known. I sip coffee, listen to the lonely call of the 4am freight train,...."

My lord. I love, love this piece by @dinalrelles.bsky.social so much. In @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social 💙💙💙
www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/relles/me...
Mechanical Pencils | matchbook
www.matchbooklitmag.com
January 4, 2026 at 3:07 PM
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melostrom.bsky.social
Excited to start the new year with a CNF flash in the latest issue of the wonderful Prime Number Magazine. Happy 2026, friends.♥️

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January 1, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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janstinchcomb.bsky.social
This story made it onto the recommendations list for The Best Horror of the Year: Vol. 17, edited by Ellen Datlow.

It's always nice to be recognized alongside such great writers.

www.houseofgamut.com/magazine/dat...
Date Night - House of Gamut
Nobody thinks of the mother, given the babysitter’s ordeal. The mother, still young, is counting on dinner and a movie with her husband. It is the best time of her life—the children aren’t babies anym...
www.houseofgamut.com
January 4, 2026 at 6:01 PM