Fiction Friday 100-Word Challenge: Some Construction, Maybe?

Here is the prompt. What do you think is going on here? Is this a prelude, an aftermath, or is the story happening right in front of us? Are the building something? Burying something? Digging something up? Tell us!

Remember: 100 words on the nose, please. Put your story in the comments or at your web place with a link back here. If time allows, we’ll update with links to good stuff you give us. So give us good stuff!

(Photo Credit: New York Public Library Digital Collections)