Beyond the Mask: a short story anthology

We all have secrets regarding our true nature, hidden behind a variety of masks: a mask of intellectualism for physiologist, Arthur Curnen; a mask of egotism for actress, Lydia Caldwell; and a mask of ‘blaming others’ for CEO, Herbert Marston.
Then there’s the mask that technology often wears as it attempts to improve and lengthen our lives–the mask of unintended consequences that retired police officer, Jim Bliss, and physician, Carl Nelson, come to appreciate. Well, the Doctor? No so much.
Even death, itself, can be a mask hiding something more. Like something ‘gross’ that new mom, Mary Bellingham, has come to graciously accept. Or like something more horrible than ‘the candy-man’ janitor, Dewayne Phelps, ever imagined.
Join me in six tales of speculative fiction where, for those named above, secrets are revealed as we go beyond the mask.