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

nancy drew and the mystery of why I keep looking at my phone instead of doing literally anything else

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

nancy drew and the mystery of why I keep looking at my phone instead of doing literally anything else

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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 20h

perfect october moment

Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 20h

“…she stared at the burdened branches outside the window. This was the first year she had to watch the olives fall, unable to harvest them. They piled helplessly like dead bodies.” this is a lovely story, Kleopatra, congratulations!

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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 20h

listening to heavy rain on the roof and windows while reading a book from the giant stack beside your bed counts as writing this morning

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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 13d

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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Dina L. Relles @dinalrelles.bsky.social · 3d

literally everything is better when i’m reading a good book

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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 · 25d

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

“How beautiful it is to live and breathe and exist in space with a friend, a lover, another soul.” + that last line! love this, Chris, so glad to be reading your words again

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Chris Gonzalez @livesinpages.bsky.social · 5d

I have a new story out today @maudlinhouse.bsky.social! Writing it was heavily inspired by the increasing cost of groceries and general anxieties around money and trying to live a stupid little life!

Maudlin House @maudlinhouse.bsky.social · 6d

Tap It, Swipe It, Charge It by Christopher Gonzalez

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Tap It, Swipe It, Charge It

This morning’s run to the ATM was harrowing. I dipped into savings! Seventh time this month. I tell Alicia all this in the middle of my second mojito. “Look, until the card declines it’s no one’s busi...

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

!!! so excited to be back in SSL ❤️

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

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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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · Mar 31

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”

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

hi bluesky! I wrote Turmeric & Sugar—a book about love, loneliness, obsession, ghosts, the surreal + the real, & longing. @tananarivedue.bsky.social calls it “an impressive debut by a writer with a clear vision into the human heart.” @thirtywestph.bsky.social
www.thirtywestph.com/shop/turmeri...

A book sits on a bench surrounded by flowers and leaves. The book title is Turmeric & Sugar: Stories and the author is Anna Vangala Jones. The original cover design shows maroon curtains drawn to reveal a window overlooking an elephant and an ocean with choppy waves. The elephant is blue like the sky full of white wispy clouds. The artist is Carolyn Brandt.

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 13d

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 · 13d

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 · 6d

“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 · 13d

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 · 6d

thank you so much, Melissa! 🤍✨

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Josh Denslow @joshdenslow.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 7d

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 · 8d

yes this works too

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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 8d

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 · 8d

thank you for reading & the kind words!

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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 8d

gorgeous as always, Dina 🤍

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