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    Mask Pretty
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    Mask Pretty

    By Linda Maye Adams

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    Reeling from the devastating loss of his wife, Rik Vale accepts a job as a fixer for Hollywood's only alien, Trevi.

    Trevi walked out of Roswell and became a movie star. His face stirs the hearts of movie fans. But he harbors a heart-breaking secret, one darker than Rik suspected.

    A Writers of the Future Silver Honorable Mention science fiction short story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBad Gnome Press
    Release dateOct 9, 2021
    ISBN9798201405960
    Mask Pretty
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    Linda Maye Adams

    Linda Maye Adams is published in Kevin J. Anderson’s anthology Monsters, Movies, & Mayhem.  She is the author of the military-based GALCOM Universe series, including the novel Crying Planet, featured in the 2018 Military Science Fiction StoryBundle, and is working on a superhero novel. 

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      Mask Pretty - Linda Maye Adams

      Book Description

      Reeling from the devastating loss of his wife, Rik Vale accepts a job as a fixer for Hollywood’s only alien, Trevi.

      Trevi walked out of Roswell and became a movie star. His face stirs the hearts of movie fans. But he harbors a heart-breaking secret, one darker than Rik suspected.

      A Writers of the Future Silver Honorable Mention science fiction short story.

      Praise for Linda Maye Adams

      Linda Maye Adams’s especially delightful ‘Alien Pizza’ features friendly aliens so enamored with low-budget monster movies that they make one of their own.–Publisher’s Weekly

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