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Barbara Lock
@barbaralockmd.bsky.social
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Writer, Editor, Teacher, and Physician. I write spec-y lit fic, edit at Variant Lit, and practice/teach at CU P&S. There's more about me at barbaralock.com.
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Looking to build your physical library? Willing to give these 5 literary novels to a good home. I'll cover shipping to a mutual in contiguous US.
October 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Reading @nadiabulkin.bsky.social in @pshares.bsky.social edited by @victorlavalle.bsky.social : "She has never had therapy. Doctors take five minutes, and exorcisms take five days, and she figures this is a good compromise."
Ploughshares Summer 2025 is Sinister in the best way!
July 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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What's in the box?
July 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Reading Thomas Merton's anti-poem, "Original Child Bomb."
33: The men in the plane perceived that the raid had been successful, but they thought of the people in the city and they were not perfectly happy. Some felt they had done wrong. But in any case they had obeyed orders. “It was war.” 34: Over the radio went the code message that the bomb had been successful: “Visible effects greater than Trinity … Proceeding to Papacy.” Papacy was the code name for Tinian. 35: It took a little while for the rest of Japan to find out what had happened to Hiroshima. Papers were forbidden to publish any news of the new bomb. A four line item said that Hiroshima had been hit by incendiary bombs and added: “It seems that some damage was caused to the city and its vicinity.” 36: Then the military governor of the Prefecture of Hiroshima issued a proclamation full of martial spirit. To all the people without hands, without feet, with their faces falling off, with their intestines hanging out, with their whole bodies full of radiation, he declared: “We must n
November 7, 2023 at 3:44 PM
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Harvesting the sage.
October 13, 2023 at 3:43 PM
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Retreated with these writers, so fun!
September 28, 2023 at 2:55 PM
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Went to a great book launch in Brooklyn last night—basically a craft talk. Read Witness by Jamel Brinkley!!
Jamel Brinkley at Books Are Magic for the launch event for his second collection Witness.
August 18, 2023 at 12:52 PM
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We adopted this beautiful girl today. She's a rescue. We fostered her through a medical journey. She's healthy and purring and spreading love in the household.
Barbara Lock with her 9 month old black and white kitten Reina.
August 17, 2023 at 4:38 PM