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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 · Oct 1
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.”
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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...
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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jenwithwords.bsky.social
“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!
anniejowrites.bsky.social Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 14h
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 26, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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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🚨 🚨 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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pintsncupcakes.bsky.social
Of course this is so beautiful and good 😍😭
November 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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sudhab.bsky.social
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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melostrom.bsky.social
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...
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November 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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cherylpappas.bsky.social
Just found out my story "After" published in Hunger Mountain Review is being nominated for a Pushcart!
A short story titled "After" by Cheryl Pappas reads "I put the orange in the freezer, because I didn’t know what else to do. The rest of her school lunch I threw away, but it seemed important somehow to hold on to the orange. People filtered in and out of the house for days to ask us questions. I stacked shepherd’s pie and lasagna in the freezer; the orange poked its head out from a corner. I felt cold for it, wanted that kind of cold, wanted my fibers to go ice-sharp with crystals, wanted all the sweetness to stay put, wanted to play dead."
November 4, 2025 at 7:14 PM
anniejowrites.bsky.social
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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anniejowrites.bsky.social
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
anniejowrites.bsky.social
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
anniejowrites.bsky.social
receive an email. send an email. receive an email. send an email. one must imagine sisyphus happy
November 20, 2025 at 4:44 AM
anniejowrites.bsky.social
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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aaronburch.bsky.social
Short Story, Long gonna be closing out 2025 so strong.
"Home Is a Relative Term" by Christopher Gonzalez "Dipshits" by Kirsti MacKenzie "A Love Story Told in Nine Lives" by Anna Vangala Jones
November 16, 2025 at 4:08 PM
anniejowrites.bsky.social
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
anniejowrites.bsky.social
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...
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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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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anniejowrites.bsky.social
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."
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September 19, 2023 at 3:48 PM
anniejowrites.bsky.social
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
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any day I end up writing immediately turns into the best day
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 AM
anniejowrites.bsky.social
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