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Submitted to Contest #333
The rice cooker clicked, its gentle pop breaking the evening silence. Lila didn’t move. She sat at the kitchen table, elbows pressed against the cool laminate, eyes on the faint glow of the orange indicator light. Steam curled and vanished into the half-dark room. The smell of jasmine rice drifted through the small Queensland house — floral, sweet, familiar enough to hurt. Her mother had always said that smell meant you were home, even if everything else had gone wrong. Now, Lila wasn’t sure if she was home or just somewhere she ended up. --...
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