Robert Garner McBrearty, Author at Witness

Robert Garner McBrearty

Robert Garner McBrearty’s short stories have been widely published including in The Pushcart Prize, Missouri Review, North American Review, New England Review, StoryQuarterly, Narrative, and Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. He’s also the author of a novella and three short story collections, one which received the Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award. He teaches writing courses for Lighthouse Writers North in the Denver area.

Sarge and Hollings

By Robert Garner McBrearty

Fiction•Vol. XXXII No. 1 (Spring 2019)

Hollings is the best man in training, the strongest, the fastest, the toughest, but Sarge still gives him a hard time. Maybe he gives him a hard time because Hollings is the best man, even better than Sarge himself, and Sarge can’t stand knowing that, and knowing that Hollings knows it too. So he gives… [Read More]