Armed agents secured the area. The recovery team searched the abandoned store on the old road up the mountain range both inside and out.
Someone noticed the large, white graffiti-painted letters PHERE above the entrance, threw out the P, and asked for a ladder. What they were looking for was spread thinly beneath the paint. They carefully replaced the items with fakes.
I’d like to say these were the good guys, but if they were, why were they up there? Anyway I doubt they realized that they weren’t the first to find the stuff I hid there.
Rochelle Wisoff-Fields offers the photo below taken by Carole Erdman-Grant as this week’s Friday Fictioneers prompt.
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 
A trap baited. But to catch what?
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Fred did trap Barry and imagine he hopes to catch those chickens. Thank you, Neil!
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Leaves a lot of intriguing questions. Nicely done.
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Thank you, Iain!
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Ah yes, why were the up there?
Shalom.
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They likely had no good reason to be there. Thank you, Michael!
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I like how they stole the P and left here. I saw the PH as a ruse for fear. Nice Frank. Fiction is extremely difficult for me. I can’t get out of my own way.
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I do think the “phere” may have meant “fear”. If I had to write more than a few sentences, I don’t think I could keep a story going for long. Thank you, Mary!
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Very clever, thinking of giving this a whirl! What a prompt!
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I have just started writing for this prompt. It is challenging, but I find it enjoyable provided I can come up with a story line. Thank you, Myrna!
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Well done Frank.
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Thank you, Dan!
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i wonder what he was hiding there to get armed agents involved. hope it was worth all the trouble. 🙂
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There may have been nothing just more deception. Thank you!
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I wonder who the watcher is who set that trap. Intriguing and mysterious.
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Me, too! Maybe there will be future episode. Thank you!
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A well done wonder-prompting piece, Frank.
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Thank you, Bill!
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Well done, Frank!
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Thank you, Eugenia!
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Most welcome, Frank!
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Dear Frank,
You left me wondering what he’d hidden. It doesn’t sound like something the unsuspecting scavenger wants to find. Nicely handled.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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I wish I knew myself. It wasn’t until I noticed the PHERE in the graffiti that an idea for a story appeared. Thank you, Rochelle!
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This has nothing to do with Waco? Asking since the anniversary just passed
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No, I was just trying to come up with something to fit the photo in the prompt. I didn’t realize that the anniversary to that event had recently passed.
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Ah gotcha coincidental, I was thinking too much into it lol
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What an intriguing tale, you’ve made perfect use of the prompt Frank.
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Thank you, Keith!
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Nice twist at the end. I wonder what was hidden there. Intriguing.
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I don’t know, but I was wondering if I might continue this somehow. Thank you, Margaret!
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Finding the past may not lead to the future.
I wonder what else they find hidden beneath layers of disguise
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Perhaps even more disguise. Thank you, Laurie!
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Answering your comment on my post (just to give your blog another comment!): I think that is definitely some kind of evil spirit behind it, be it “Jezebel” or something like it with the situation!
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It does seem like an evil spirit of some sort.
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Yes sir
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