Victoria Briggs

Victoria Briggs is a writer and editor who lives in London and works in magazine publishing. Her short stories have been published in UK and US literary magazines and short fiction anthologies, and she once won the UK’s Asham Award for women writers.

DEAD LETTER OFFICE

Hysteric

By VICTORIA BRIGGS

“My dear gynaecologist, / I’ve had better starts to the year. Ones that didn’t involve waking up every day convinced I was about to die.”