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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 7d

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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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 6d

Anna is one of the best writers working today. Give this a read and you’ll see why. Just a monumental talent.

Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 7d

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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Melissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social · 11h

“If this isn’t Mary, what would be the alternative?”

Oh, I love this story by @anniejowrites.bsky.social. Check it out, friends!❤️

Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 7d

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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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 11h

thank you so much, Melissa! 🤍✨

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Josh Denslow @joshdenslow.bsky.social · 11h

Free shipping today at @bookshop.org which means that yes now is a perfect time to pick up MAGIC CAN'T SAVE US!

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Magic Can't Save Us: Eighteen Tales of Likely Failure

Eighteen Tales of Likely Failure

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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 1d

Bookshop is offering free shipping on all orders today. Just saying 🥺

Every Galaxy a Circle

Check out Every Galaxy a Circle - An Intriguing Journey through the Cosmos of Human ExperienceIn Every Galaxy a Circle, Chloe N. Clark masterfully intertwines memories, ghost...

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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 1d

yes this works too

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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 1d

I will not create new social media accounts. I will walk deep into the woods & spell out my silly little thoughts with sticks + fallen leaves for whoever finds them

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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 2d

thank you for reading & the kind words!

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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 2d

gorgeous as always, Dina 🤍

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Dina L. Relles @dinalrelles.bsky.social · 2d

it’s been a minute since i’ve published anything, so i’m especially grateful that @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social gave this little musing on love + leavings a home.

you can read the full piece here: matchbooklitmag.com/mb/relles/departures

Departures
by Dina L. Relles
handed you the promised coffee with an apology: no sugar, no milk, I’m sorry.

I don’t need those things, you said, and I fell in impossible love with you all over again.

I’d come from my room carrying everything I wanted to happen that didn’t. Now the lobby was too bright and smelled like grapefruits and your face was weary in a way that felt intimate.

You spoke quietly to me in the taxi, then held me twice at the terminal, which I took to mean you loved me too, despite.

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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 2d

Sudha, thank you so much for reading (& sharing)! I love your stories so it means a lot 🤍

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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 2d

thank you so much, Sudha, I hope you like it! 💕

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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 4d

it’s good we’re not alone 🫠

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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 4d

wrote a paragraph. this novel should be done any decade now

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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 4d

thanks so much for reading, Megan! ✨

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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · Sep 4

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.

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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 19d

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...

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Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social · 6d

Oof. An absolute banger of a story by @anniejowrites.bsky.social compelling from the very first sentence to the last. Read it.

Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 7d

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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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 5d

thank you so much for reading! & so glad you loved it ✨

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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 6d

Some of my favorite pieces this year have been written by @anniejowrites.bsky.social and this is no exception. The tension, tenderness, and longing here is just off the charts. One of those that leaves you hanging on every sentence.

Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 7d

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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Elena “Eraserhead baby” Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 6d

Thrilled to have three tiny poems up on @havehashad.com!

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Here’s one:

A city bursts inside of me
My head becomes heavy from bloom.
The lake leaks out of my eyes.
I'm pregnant with families.
They spill onto my toes and set up tents.
I can hear crying on my kneecaps.
At night, a train shivers with longing.

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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 5d

congratulations! such a good story

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June Gemmell @junegemmell.bsky.social · 5d

There are some stories that stay with you after you finish reading them. This one is much more than the actual words on the page. Left me thinking about it for quite some time. Stunning. Deep. Emotionally immersive. Wow!
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 7d

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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Jenny Wong @jenwithwords.bsky.social · 8d

Okay…*deep breath and sorry for awkward promotion things….*, my new flash fiction chapbook ‘Light Chemical Sea’ is coming Fall 2026 with Bull City Press. ✨⚗️🌊

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