Anna Vangala Jones (@anniejowrites.bsky.social)

@anniejowrites.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 3:48 PMReposted by @anniejowrites.bsky.social

I have a new micro fiction story in @havehashad.com! grateful to @aaronburch.bsky.social for my 8th 💀 & you for reading ♡ www.havehashad.com/hadposts/the...

Title: Therapy in the Park
Author: Anna Vangala Jones
Text of the story: “Therapy has gotten too expensive or always was but there was a time I thought a professional’s advice or guidance was needed but now it’s not that I seek answers so much as someone to listen without judgment or interruption so instead of taking the long bus ride to my old therapist’s office between the Chinese food takeout counter and the stationery store—isn’t it funny and lovely how we still sell and purchase letterhead, envelopes, and journals when so many have fallen out of practice at handwriting even their own names—I venture a few blocks past the giant fountain with birds chirping and children shrieking in the cold water to visit my favorite statue of the bronze couple on the bench, the man reading a book with the woman reading over his shoulder, and I sit beside them like they’re expecting me and tell them about my late rent, my mother’s anxious calls I haven’t yet returned about my father’s test results, and the violinist I’d fallen in love with for as long as it took him to fall in love with me until the fear of being someone’s beloved made me forget any tender feeling he or his music had evoked, and as I breathe and blink hard to slow the tears, a beautiful young woman places her hand on my shoulder and asks me if I’m okay so I look up and tell her yes, sorry for being weird, and she smiles and that’s enough therapy for one day so I rise and start walking as the golden setting sun burns bright like it’s lighting the way home just for me.”
Illustration: a pile of skulls

@anniejowrites.bsky.social Oct 13, 2026, 6:11 AM

it’s a nice place for my tiny stories 💀

@anniejowrites.bsky.social Oct 13, 2026, 2:25 AM

thanks so much, Jane

@anniejowrites.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 9:30 PM

thank you, Eileen, you’re the best 💕

@anniejowrites.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 9:18 PM

thanks so much, Jenny! 🤍

@kathyfish.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 4:22 PMReposted by @anniejowrites.bsky.social

Ahhh, I love this breathless one-sentence beauty, @anniejowrites.bsky.social 💙

@anniejowrites.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 5:25 PM

thanks so much for sharing, June! 🤍

@caseystegman.com Oct 12, 2026, 4:04 PMReposted by @anniejowrites.bsky.social

Beautiful

@danbillyc.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 4:41 PMReposted by @anniejowrites.bsky.social

"...and as I breathe and blink hard to slow the tears, a beautiful young woman places her hand on my shoulder and asks me if I’m okay...."

I really love this wonderful micro by @anniejowrites.bsky.social in @havehashad.com 💙💙💙

@kathyfish.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 3:06 PMReposted by @anniejowrites.bsky.social

New story up today! At the Journal of Compressed Creative Arts. I'd love for you to read, "There's Something a Little Wrong with Jean." ⚡
matterpress.com/journal/2026...

@caseystegman.com Oct 7, 2026, 11:31 PMReposted by @anniejowrites.bsky.social

So proud to have a story in this anthology. If you love stories about being in the woods at night and hearing things moving all around you…definitely check out my story, “Home.” 😉

@pintsncupcakes.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 5:25 PMReposted by @anniejowrites.bsky.social

Sunday story for you?

@anniejowrites.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 4:49 PM

Dan! thank you so much 🤍

@anniejowrites.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 4:38 PM

it’s a good home for my stories 💀

@anniejowrites.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 4:29 PM

thank you so much, Kathy! ♥️

@anniejowrites.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 4:28 PM

“She’s not like us, Kyle offers, tearing the mint leaves from their stems. Ben sighs. Maybe we’re not like her.” so imaginative & beautiful, Kathy 🤍

@anniejowrites.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 4:14 PM

thank you, Casey!

@anniejowrites.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 3:48 PM

I have a new micro fiction story in @havehashad.com! grateful to @aaronburch.bsky.social for my 8th 💀 & you for reading ♡ www.havehashad.com/hadposts/the...

@havehashad.com Oct 12, 2026, 2:43 PMReposted by @anniejowrites.bsky.social

"Therapy has gotten too expensive or always was but there was a time I thought a professional’s advice or guidance was needed but now it’s not that I seek answers so much as someone to listen without judgment or..."

today from @anniejowrites.bsky.social !
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/the...

Oct 12, '26
Therapy in the Park
Anna Vangala Jones

(full text at link)
Therapy has gotten too expensive or always was but there was a time I thought a professional’s advice or guidance was needed but now it’s not that I seek answers so much as someone to listen without judgment or interruption so instead of taking the long bus ride to my old therapist’s office between the Chinese food takeout counter and the stationery store—isn’t it funny and lovely how we still sell and purchase letterhead, envelopes, and journals when so many have fallen out of practice at handwriting even their own names—I venture a few blocks past the giant fountain with birds chirping and children shrieking in the cold water to visit my favorite statue of the bronze couple on the bench, the man reading a book with the woman reading over his shoulder, and I sit beside them like they’re expecting me and tell them about my late rent, my mother’s anxious calls I haven’t yet returned about my father’s test results...

@anniejowrites.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 3:54 AM

in honor of spooky season, I am ghosting my manuscript until further notice