Paula Whyman

Biography

Paula Whyman’s stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Hudson Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Southampton Review, and Gargoyle. She received a 2014 Pushcart Prize Special Mention, and her fiction has been selected for anthologies including Writes of Passage: Coming-of-Age Stories and Memoirs from The Hudson Review. She has been a resident at The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and The Studios of Key West. “Transfigured Night” is part of her collection of linked short stories. She is also at work on a novel. 

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FICTION / Winter 2014

Transfigured Night

By Paula Whyman ,  Illustration by Lauren Simkin Berke

My new boss, Chick, was a morbidly obese manic off his meds who hailed from a tiny town I’d never heard of—​Wassily, Louisiana—​a town so small, Chick claimed, the shotgun shacks only had space for pistols. In summers, he told me, you...