Patricia Patterson is a Mexican-American writer and editor based in North Carolina. Her fiction is featured or forthcoming in Baltimore Review, Indiana Review, Porter House Review, and elsewhere. Patricia is the winner of Porter House Review‘s 2021 Editor’s Prize in Fiction, selected by Yiyun Li.
Content by Patricia Patterson
Fiction,
The Oracle
…Mamá knocks on my door in the early morning. The sky is dark still, the sun in hiding. She sits on the edge of my bed and strokes my hair like she used to do when I was just a kid. We have cereal for breakfast, and the sound of our crunching syncs up. We don’t talk about tía Marisol. We leave Sepelio behind and go to San Francisco.
Fiction,
World Without End
In those last days, before the world ended, Lucia Salvador Calderón lived by the lists she made. Her blessings became inventory. She wrote them down to remind herself: she had the banana tree in the backyard; she had the ceramic tiles on the bathroom floor, cool against the soles of her feet; she had the […]