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For "Place" by Paul Mullin

Ann was lonely in her own house, surrounded by ghost-marriage remnants and an unwinnable fight to make the basement less musty. She needed something – more aptly, somewhere – but she couldn’t imagine how to begin. She took an exasperated swig of coffee and sighed. The basement wasn’t going to clean itself.




Paul Mullin is a freelance newspaper reporter from New Jersey. He is a proud member of The Broad Set Writing Collective and just started his own fancy new blog, The Germ of the Idea. He hopes that, one day, he will have a full-time job with benefits.