Three Kinds of People Live in the Basement . AI-Generated.
The first thing I noticed about the basement was not the mold.
It was the smell.
A layered smell—stale cooking oil, damp clothes that never fully dried, raw concrete, and something faintly sweet, like cheap laundry detergent. It was the kind of smell that told you people had been living here for a long time, long enough for their lives to sink into the walls.
