“The Doom Statues” — Chapter 2

They pass the lake in a flash, just one S curve of a bridge, which slips through the narrowest visible point between its shores. To their left, the slightly shorter expanse, and a sign indicating it’s the reservoir for the nearby town of Stokely, where a small, placid pool tumbles over a dam, apparently leading the way southwest to that town. Meanwhile, to the right, it fans outward to accommodate the expected variety of jet skis…