The July Issue of Hobart is now posted and available for your reading enjoyment, including new stories from Stephen Graham Jones, Jessica Piazza, Baird Harper, and Damian Dressick, as well as interview with Larry Fondation by Brian Allen Carr.

To get you started, here's the first paragraph of Baird Harper's "Garbage Day":

Debra Jims dreams of Kool-Aid. The juice leaves a red mustache above her lip. Men around her have mustaches too, real ones, thick and masculine. Her husband Todd rolls over and tries to stoke her fire. "I'm still in my dreams," Debra Jims mumbles. Later, in the bathroom mirror, as he shaves his face clean, Todd says, "Deb, why are you so frigid?" Debra Jims' eyes go dim on her husband. She turns, walks to the window, looks out onto the street below. Today is garbage day.

This issue is one of my favorites that I've been able to put together as a web editor for Hobart, and I'm very proud to have it as my last issue with the magazine. It's been great working with Aaron Burch and Jensen Whelan on the website, along with the rest of the Hobart family, including Elizabeth Ellen, Matthew Simmons, Ryan Molloy, and Sean Carman. I really appreciate the opportunity I had to work beside such great people, and wish them all the best of luck with Hobart going forward. Andrea Kneeland will be replacing me as web editor, and is someone I think will do a really amazing job-- I'm already looking forward to reading her own first issue with them in the next couple of months.

Thanks again, Aaron and everyone else at Hobart! It's been a lot of fun.