"Another Door" by Lubrina Burton
– I took a deep breath.
I ignored this and all the rest of my life’s clutter.
Lubrina Burton lives in Lexington, Kentucky with her husband and pug. She completed the Carnegie Center’s Author Academy in 2020 and is now pursuing her MFA at Eastern Kentucky University’s Bluegrass Writers Studio. In 2023, Hydra Publications/Erudite Press released her first book, Shitbag Soldier, a creative nonfiction memoir detailing her experience as a young soldier in a pre-9/11 U.S. Army. Her short stories and poems are featured in the anthologies, That Southern Thing, Trouble, Curious Stuff, Twists and Turns, From Pen to Page II, and G.I. Days.