Sometime in the twentieth or twenty-first century, a teenage runaway finds refuge working in Wyoming for over 15 years for an older cattle rancher whose unrequited love complicates the terms of her employment.

On the 4th of July, a small Texas diner receives new customers from all over the nation. One family arrives to the small town in search for an old war buddy, Bill, who offered the husband a job, but the townspeople insist that Bill's work is not accepting any new workers.

The happy life that a young mother and her husband have established in Texas is disrupted when bright red flyers appear in their neighborhood revealing her husband to be a sex offender.

When her beloved mule goes missing, a young woman in rural Texas struggles with her marriage and the dreams she long ago gave up on.

A former Texas Ranger, now in his late 60s, now works as a PI and serves subpoenas on the side. One day, he finds himself accidentally entangled in a brutal murder in a small Texan town and does his best to bring the murderer to justice.

In modern-day Texas, a teenage boy navigates a world in which teens can take out virtual loans on a whim, big corporations sponsor everything from housing to church services, and consumerism runs rampant. As high school graduation approaches, he grows apart from his girlfriend and family — and becomes increasingly attached to an unsponsored, unbranded, humble little church.

A freshman at a Texas high school has a crush on the beautiful and mysterious girl next door. When her little brother is hospitalized with a life-threatening injury, and he's tasked with feeding her family's dog each night, he learns a startling secret.

In Galveston, Texas, in the year 1900, a wealthy businessman leaves his family on a train to Fort Worth and takes a ferry back to the island as part of an elaborate plot to murder a rival who dishonored his wife, planning to catch a later train; however, after the act is complete, he is trapped and killed in a hurricane, one of many deaths. His wife, safely in Forth Worth, learns of his death and continues an ongoing affair with his friend's son.

A fat cowgirl who works on her father's ranch discovers a sentient, broken-down tractor, who begs her to revive him. After she forgets about the tractor and finally finds love, the tractor becomes the center of a terrible tragedy on the farm.

A financially struggling father tries to smuggle thousands of dollars' worth of Dairy Queen kids' meals toys across a Texas border in order to afford medical treatment for his unconscious daughter, but both the deal and his daughter's rescue go awry.