Holes

PART ONE YOU ARE ENTERING CAMP GREEN LAKE
There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. There once was a very large lake here, the largest lake in Texas.
That was over a hundred years ago. Now it is just a dry, flat wasteland.
There used to be a town of Green Lake as well. The town shriveled and dried up along with the lake, and the people who lived there.
During the summer the daytime temperature hovers around ninety-five degrees in the shade— if you can find any shade.
There’s not much shade in a big dry lake. The only trees are two old oaks on the eastern edge of the “lake.”
A hammock is stretched between the two trees, and a log cabin stands behind that.
The campers are forbidden to lie in the hammock. It belongs to the Warden. The Warden owns the shade.
Out on the lake, rattlesnakes and scorpions find shade under rocks and in the holes dug by the campers.
Here’s a good rule to remember about rattlesnakes and scorpions: If you don’t bother them, they won’t bother you.
Usually. Being bitten by a scorpion or even a rattlesnake is not the worst thing that can happen to you. You won’t die. Usually.
Sometimes a camper will try to be bitten by a scorpion, or even a small rattlesnake.
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