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I Can’t Believe I Forgot to Tell You About The Summer Garden

Leave a Comment / My Books, New Release / August 3, 2026 / Canadian author, character-driven fiction, community garden, contemporary fiction, cozy fiction, Edmonton, found family, free fiction, friendship, gardening, grief, healing, hopeful fiction, mark posey, retirees, serial fiction, slice of life, Substack, The Summer Garden, weekly serial

Sometimes the stories we’re most excited about are the ones we forget to talk about. For months, I’ve been quietly publishing The Summer Garden every Sunday on Substack—a gentle serial about grief, friendship, second chances, and the unexpected community found in a neighborhood garden. If you haven’t discovered Scotty and the residents of Mill Creek Community Garden yet, now’s the perfect time to step through the gate.

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The Things We Plant

Leave a Comment / Homebase, Reflections / June 8, 2026 / author life, Canadian author, community garden, creativity, Edmonton author, friendships, gardening, gardening metaphor, grief and healing, growth, habits, indie publishing, inspiration, life lessons, lifelong growth, mark posey, patience, personal reflection, planting seeds, raised garden beds, reflections on life, relationships, second chances, Stories Rule Press, storytelling, Substack serial, The Summer Garden, vegetable garden, writing life, YEG writers

Some of the most important things in life begin as something small and uncertain. A packet of seeds. A first chapter. A conversation. Standing in the garden this spring, watching green shoots push through the soil, reminded me that growth is often invisible until suddenly it isn’t—and that the things we plant today may become far more than we ever imagined.

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Something New is Growing

Leave a Comment / My Books / June 1, 2026 / aging protagonists, author update, Canadian author, character driven fiction, community garden, contemporary fiction, Edmonton author, emotional fiction, fiction serial, friendship, grief, heartwarming stories, indie author, life after loss, literary fiction, mark posey, new fiction, personal growth, retirement, retirement stories, second chances, serial fiction, storytelling, Substack, The Summer Garden, writing life

A retired widower. A community garden. A cast of unforgettable neighbours. While Fall From Grace continues to take shape, Mark Posey has also been nurturing a very different story. The Summer Garden is a warm, character-driven serial about grief, friendship, second chances, and the surprising ways people keep growing long after they think life’s most important seasons have passed.

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