The Neighbor’s Garden
The Neighbor’s Garden
$15.00
Poignant, witty, and deeply human, “The Neighbor’s Garden” is a story about grace that grows where it’s planted—and how tending to someone else’s kindness can sometimes help you heal your own soil. When a struggling young woman starts finding mysterious baskets of vegetables from her picture-perfect neighbor, it’s the start of an unexpected friendship that takes root through handwritten notes and acts of quiet kindness.
Description
From The Art of Almost Collection
In The Art of Almost Collection, J. J. Jonas captures the hilarious and heartbreaking contradictions of the quarter-life years — when love, career, and identity are all under renovation. From a young man learning stick shift from his mother’s first love (Manual Transmission) to a divorced couple sharing custody of a dog (The Custody of Mondays), to a thrift shopper who finds grace tucked inside an old blazer (Thirty and Thrifty), these stories shimmer with humor, vulnerability, and quiet revelation.Wry, hopeful, and deeply human.
Other short stories from The Art of Almost Collection:
- The Couch on Craigslist
- The Custody of Mondays
- The Latte Rebellion
- Manual Transmission
- The Meeting that Changed Nothing (and Everything)
- Return to Sender
- The Spare Key
- Thirty and Thrifty
Titles shown above in The Art of Almost Collection are available seperately. See “Prose Short Stories” in the Online Store.




