Robert Garner McBrearty’s short stories have appeared in the following publications
- The Greensboro Review, Issue 107, Spring 2020, “Holdouts”
- Embark, Issue 8, April 2019, “The Wild Child”
- Witness, Vol. XXXII, No. 1, Spring 2019, “Sarge and Hollings”
- North American Review, Winter 2019, “Cold Night in Waterloo”
- Missouri Review, Winter 2017, “A Morning Swim”
- North American Review, Volume 298, No. 3, Summer 2013, “Convergence”
- Mississippi Review 30 Year Anthology, March 2012,“The Dishwasher”
- The Burg: A Writers’ Diner, Marybeth Slonneger, 2012, “The Dishwasher”
- North American Review, Volume 294, No. 3-4, May–Aug 2009, “The Helmeted Man”
- North American Review, Volume 291, No 6, Nov–Dec 2006, “Episode”
- Narrative Magazine, Winter 2007, “Teach Us”
- North American Review, Volume 289, No. 2, March–April 2004, “Dinsmore’s Paradox”
- StoryQuarterly, #38, 2002, “Excellence”
- Green Hills Literary Lantern, Volumes 10, 11, 12, 13; 1999–2002 “The Director”; “The Comeback”; “The Professor’s March”; “Transformations”
- Lynx Eye, Vol. 5, No.1, 1998, “Visions of Arnie”
- Zone 3, Vol. XII, No.2, 1997, “The Things I Don’t Know About”
- Peregrine, Vol. XVI, 1997, “The Yellow House”
- Sycamore Review, “Soft Song of the Sometimes Sane”
- The Missouri Review, Vol. XVII, #3, Winter 1994, “A Night at the Y”
- The Missouri Review, Vol. XVI, #1, Spring 1993, “Back in Town”
- Confrontation, No. 50, Fall 1992, “The Unfolding”
- Provincetown Arts,Vol. 8, 1992, “The Siege”
- Special Report, Feb–April 1991, “The Hellraiser” (reprinted from The Mississippi Review)
- The Fiction Review, Vol. 2, No. 3, 1988, “The Big Prayer”
- Mississippi Review, Vol. 16, No. 1, 1988, “The Hellraiser”
- Kansas Quarterly, Vol. 19, 1987, “Improvising”
- New England Review, 1986, “First Day”
- Crescent Review, “The Pearl Diver”
- The Pushcart Prize, Best of the Small Presses anthology, VIII, 1982-1983, “The Dishwasher”
- Mississippi Review, Vol. II, Nos. 1–2, 1982, “The Dishwasher” (reprinted in The Pushcart Prize)
