CAN I HAVE A HUG FIRST?
CAN I HAVE A HUG FIRST? is a short story collection born out of author Mary Paula Hunter’s career as a performance artist. Her monologues turned short stories feature midlife adults struggling to align their crazy minds with an equally crazy world. Hilarious and tragic in a high energy mix, these stories will get the reader questioning what came first— the whacked mind or the whacked world?
FICTION: SHORT STORIES
ISBN: 978-1-963115-26-0
Publication Date: FEBRUARY 18, 2025
CAN I HAVE A HUG FIRST? is a short story collection born out of author Mary Paula Hunter’s career as a performance artist. Her monologues turned short stories feature midlife adults struggling to align their crazy minds with an equally crazy world. Hilarious and tragic in a high energy mix, these stories will get the reader questioning what came first— the whacked mind or the whacked world?
FICTION: SHORT STORIES
ISBN: 978-1-963115-26-0
Publication Date: FEBRUARY 18, 2025
CAN I HAVE A HUG FIRST? is a short story collection born out of author Mary Paula Hunter’s career as a performance artist. Her monologues turned short stories feature midlife adults struggling to align their crazy minds with an equally crazy world. Hilarious and tragic in a high energy mix, these stories will get the reader questioning what came first— the whacked mind or the whacked world?
FICTION: SHORT STORIES
ISBN: 978-1-963115-26-0
Publication Date: FEBRUARY 18, 2025
About MARY PAULA HUNTER
MARY PAULA HUNTER came to writing as a performance artist fusing text with dance. Her debut novel, SOMEONE ELSE (2019) has a five-star rating on Amazon and was selected by Kirkus Indie Editors to be featured in the Kirkus Reviews (June 2020). Her writing has been called "brilliant" by The Village Voice and The Manhattan Spirit. CAN I HAVE A HUG FIRST? was published by GULF COAST online (2018). HEAVEN a flash fiction piece was published in FLASH FICTION MAGAZINE (2016). GROCERY STORE, submitted to Glimmer Train placed in the top 3% and was awarded Honorable Mention. Hunter gained her perspective on middle graders and high schoolers through raising two children and running a dance studio for many years. She lives in Providence, RI with her husband Brown University historian, Richard Meckel.
