“The Doom Statues” — Chapter 4

The return trip southwest, to their hometown of Jenson, NC, takes right at an hour. This region one of those odd pits devoid of interstates, between the two points, a drive involving state routes and country roads between countless towns only slightly larger than Stokely. Jenson is the most sizable of these, though still not much, boasting but a population of about 3000, with two elementary schools feeding into a single junior and then…