Pamela Briggs

Writer of contemporary fantasy, paranormal erotic romance, horror, humor, and science fiction. Current projects are a novel starring a Russian tree spirit, and a book about an unusual pet.
My major publication credits include:
“With The Original Cast” in Midsummer Night's Dreams: One Story, Many Tales
M. Christian, ed. [Masquerade Rhinoceros]
Puck bewitches diverse mortals into living out a lascivious fairy tale. “Love Hz” in
Eros Ex Machina: Eroticizing the Mechanical
M. Christian, ed. [Masquerade Rhinoceros]
A woman falls in love with a tape recorder. “Hysterical” in
Young Blood
Mike Baker, ed. [Kensington
Zebra]
No one believes a woman who is seeing her coworkers literally fall to pieces around her.
A taste of some of my other stories:
“Come to My Senses”
<[i>The Urbanite 10: On Whom the Pale Moon Gleams, 1998]
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An intermittently comatose woman is shuttled between two worlds; in each, her loved ones insist that this is reality and her other life is a delusion.
“Briggs pulls off a difficult story-telling challenge: creating a dynamic tale out of a bedridden point-of-view character. But she does. Anthea’s voice works.”
— James Van Pelt, Tangent
“A Fish in Chocolate Cake”
<[i>The Urbanite 8: Fabulous Creatures, 1997]
A laid-off businesswoman who takes a department store clerk job gets a reputation for things she's not doing.
“‘A Fish in Chocolate Cake’ by Pamela Briggs is my favourite. Her wonderfully observed characters are instantly engaging and the uncanny plot unfolds like a magic trick.”
— Tony Lee, Zene #12
“Lunch with Janoscz, the Deconstruction Worker”
<[i>The Urbanite 7: Strange Transformations, 1996]
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A man excavates holes in time, revealing fresh realities, and persuades a suspicious woman to believe.
“Pamela Briggs takes a truly different look at the commonplace in ‘Lunch with Janoscz, the Deconstruction Worker.’ This is the best story of the issue; it tells its tale quietly and effectively, but ends up taking the reader to a truly weird place.”
— James J. Murray, Tangent
“Lee’s Own”
<[i>The Brood of Sycorax, 1993]
Bits of a woman’s sloughed-off ugly-duckling past coalesce into a creature who demands her attention.
“With its twisted look at beauty politics, ‘Lee’s Own’...makes for great feminist horror fiction.”
— Miriam Wolf, Factsheet Five
Check out my website at http://pamelabriggs.com/. You'll have to copy and paste the address, as MySpace is disabling most links, alleging they are "spam," "phishing," or "viruses."
My stories have appeared in anthologies and magazines with works by Basil Copper, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Carol Queen, Gerard Houarner, Gordon Van Gelder, Joel Lane, Lawrence Schimel, Lucy Taylor, M. Christian, Mark McLaughlin, Maxim Jakubowski, Nancy Kilpatrick, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Pat Califia, Poppy Z. Brite, Ramsey Campbell, Robert Bloch, Shar Rednour, Stephen King, and Thomas S. Roche. I'm honored.
Elsewhere in my creative life, I'm a singer of a cappella when I can find someone to harmonize with, and an occasional actor on stage and in film. My Bacon number is 3 .