Chapter Three
June Twenty Six
1:00 A.M.
Division Street split The City of Burton cleanly between the condos and gated communities on the North side and the tract homes and trailer courts on the South. The residents of South Burton attended softball games, public schools, and the Catholic Churches. They shopped at Fred’s Market. The families living on the North preferred soccer matches, private academies, Episcopalian Churches, and The Organic Foods Co-op. There had been no deliberate attempt to segregate the town socially or economically, but everyone knew their place in the order of things. A city council meeting or house fire might bring both sides together for an evening, but few would linger to mingle afterward. People are more comfortable among their own.
Burton was a company tow
