East District

EAST DISTRICT opens with 3 teen boys, apparently disposing of the body of a battered youth out by the tracks. One of their friends has been missing, but the body’s not hers. “Light as a baby,” says Marvin, dragging the body across the plains, then wrapping it in a trash bag and slinging the bundle over his back. The boys go to a Science teacher, who instructs them to stash the bag in his shed. “I knew Mr.Cobb would understand. He was in the service.” What’s happening inside the chain-link fenced borders of East District?