Water Keeps Names

The lake was lower than it should have been.At first, people in The Wilds called it drought.Then Lake Jocassee gave back a rusted box.Then a skull.Then a bell.And inside the old papers was a name powerful men had tried to drown for generations:Mercy Chapman.Some said Mercy ran away. Some said her family buried the truth. Some said the old mercy bells were warnings for the dead. But when the lake p...