Texas Wherever You Look

In Texas Wherever You Look (a selection from the short story collection Fire Ants and Other Stories by Gerald Duff), at the end of the Civil War, a family moves from Louisiana into Texas, looking for better farmland and an improved life. The father is a dreamer, the mother pregnant with her third child and the eldest child a truth-teller of the first water. 'Once you're in Texas,' she tells her young sister, who breaks into sobs at the announcement of the message, 'you're a part of everywhere you look, and it's a part of you.'