Why, you ask, do writers slip in those three asterisks (or similar symbology) into section breaks?
These guys have a great explanation, however I prefer that it’s a temporal obfuscatory implementation.
Do The Dead Dream? 2017 Best Book Awards Winner for Fiction: Short Stories
Sleepwalkers (© 2001, F. P. Dorchak, AuthorHouse)
The Uninvited (© 2013, F. P. Dorchak [cover art: Duvall Design])
ERO (© 2013, F. P. Dorchak [cover art Lon Kirschner])
Psychic (© 2014, F. P. Dorchak [cover art: Duvall Design])
“Clowns,” © F. P. Dorchak and Lon Kirschner, 2016.
“Broken Windows” Short Story Cover (© F. P. Dorchak and Lon Kirschner, 2016)
Do The Dead Dream? (© 2017, F. P. Dorchak and Lon Kirschner)
Runnin Off at the Mouth.... 
Don’t they also warn against using complicated jargon?
Haha! Good one!
But since I have been eschewed by traditional publishers, I shall eschew their English imperialisms!