Thankfully, it’s these voices that give life to the Texas Bound anthology, two collections of short stories edited by Kay Cattarulla of National Public Radio’s “Selected Shorts” fame ...

Jack O’Connell’s Paddy Mayne, a man with a short fuse, is implied to be grappling with his sexuality: at a time when loving other men was illegal and highly stigmatised, he was rumoured to be gay.