Not My Vacation Photos, Unfortunately

Beautiful Mars panorama, brought to you by Opportunity:

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/images/largesize/PIA21723_hires.jpg 

He Had a Bad Day

 

A bit of the background history from the setting of my Masks stories:

October 29, 1955 In a landmark court case, a jury accepts a criminal mastermind's defense that he didn't intend his deathtrap to actually kill a costumed hero, but only delay him while the mastermind committed other crimes. It just happened that in this case the hero had a bad case of the flu and died due to being unable to escape in time. The jurors - and many others interviewed on the matter - say they had no problem believing this is the actual purpose of deathtraps, given how often they fail. The mastermind was subsequently found guilty of accidental manslaughter instead of murder. 

The first two Masks stories can be found at:

HTTP://amzn.to/2v6trVT