Short stories published in The Texas Review

Listing 2 stories.

A man and his son struggle to navigate their complicated relationship, which only gets more tense when the son befriends the crazy old woman who lives next door.

A mother from Houston, Texas is comforted by and indulgent in her access to wealth from her absent husband, but when her daugher is bitten by a horse that then dies the next day, she must independently complete the odious task of decapitating it so that it can be examined by a laboratory.