Patricia Highsmith Novel Novels & Stories

Patricia. My heart still stumbled at the name, at the sheer absurdity of it. At the danger that it posed to me and my safety, my sanity. Yet there she was, sitting across from me like a queen who had claimed her throne and dared anyone to challenge her. Patricia’s lips curved into that smile I had come to dread, the kind that wasn’t a smile at all but a sharpened blade dressed in silk. She sat opposite me, still in the spot she had been sitting with Isaac, legs elegantly crossed, her diamond-studded hand draped with calculated poise over the armrest. Her smile was soft, but I couldn't be deceived by the false warmth in her deceptive smile, because it wasn’t the warmth of courtesy, it was the

I was also able to go to school while Patricia enrolled in Emmanuel High School. Our teacher allowed me to have a particular project. He asked me to tell in front of the class about the novel written by Mantus Taylor entitled ‘The murderer’s perfect crime.’ “Good morning to all of you, I am here to discuss the bestselling novel in the world entitled ‘The murderer’s perfect crime,’” I started to talk to them. “Who among you know Mantus Taylor, the author of the said literature?” I asked, but none of them raised their hand to answer my question. It only meant they were not studying hard.

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Krista POV Patricia Owens' living room was the room of someone who had been waiting a long time and had made peace with the waiting without letting it consume the rest of her life. Books on every surface. A small television. A kitchen visible through a doorway that smelled like coffee and something baked earlier in the morning. Family photographs on the mantelpiece, children and grandchildren in the ordinary accumulation of a life lived alongside the specific secret she had been carrying since the night she worked a NICU shift seven years ago and saw something she could not unsee.

He informed. Patricia smiled. “I am okay, sir. I'm not a foodie. I guess I take this much because of what happened?” “Patricia.” He called and paused, giving her a space to answer. She raised her gaze to look at him in the eyes. “Sir.” she answered. “What happened? Why are you like this? What are you passing through right now?” He investigated with a concerned expression. “Where are you coming from? Where is your destination?” Patricia discharged a deep breath. She cast her face downward and squeezed her hands, placing them on her thighs. “I caught my husband cheating on me with my best friend-” she voiced out.

My eyes traced the ceiling above, but my thoughts were far away, slipping through the cracks of the day’s events. I was not able to shake off the feeling that something was off. Patricia, there was something about her. A nagging suspicion that I could not quite place my finger on. She was good at what she did, sure, but there was more to her. Something she is hiding from us. My thoughts tangled together as my eyelids grew heavier, exhaustion creeping in. Eventually, my body gave in to the pull of sleep, and the last coherent thought I had was about the strange familiarity that Patricia brought with her. Like I had met her before, but where? I don't know.

“The press, are you one of them?” The woman took off her glasses in response, showing her almond-shaped lupine eyes behind the lens. “Patricia” She called with an outstretched hand. “I’m Samantha.” “Lovely to meet you.” She revealed with glintful eyes and Patricia trailed the article in her hands. “You still haven’t answered my question—What are you doing with that?” She asked, a crack in her voice and Samantha buried it into the bags across her hands. “I came across the news, like half of the Chicago populace. I can only imagine the dread and the shame you bear, having everyone talk about you like the other woman” Samantha seethed through her teeth and Patricia painfully arched her brows.

Ever since Hannah died and she seduced Angelo into sleeping with her, Clarissa has felt that staying next to Angelo was her birth right. "I have no idea what you are talking about" "Don't you? Deny it all you want but even your eyes tell me what sort of homewrecker you are. Listen here you little swine even if you pretend to be pregnant, Angelo will never marry you, do you want to bet on that?" Patricia moved Victoria aside, staring right into Clarissa's eyes. There was something about the way she was staring at Clarissa that creeped her out and she swallowed. Patricia was nothing like Victoria, she wasn't to be messed around with, she may not be wealthy as she used to but she had connectio

Music drifted from the outer gallery as if nothing in the world had shifted. But for Leah, the room narrowed to Patricia’s face. Not the donor. Not the patron. Not the respectable woman in pearls. The hand on the shoulder. Patricia’s smile remained faint and composed, but the softness had thinned. Beneath it was something older, colder, and far more practiced than simple cruelty. She had not threatened Leah in the way Margaret threatened, with velvet ropes wrapped around hospitals and scholarships. She had not pressed like Charles, clean-fingered and legal. Patricia did something worse.