My Fair Planet

By Evelyn E. Smith

All the world’s a stage, so there was room even for this bad actor . . . only he intended to direct it!

Evelyn E. Smith is best known as the author of the Miss Melville mysteries. From 1952 to 1969 she wrote dozens of science fiction and fantasy short stories that appeared in magazines such as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Galaxy, Super Science Fiction, and Fantastic Universe. Her stories were witty, well written, often humorous, and always unforgettable.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wilder Publications, Inc.
• Release date: Apr 20, 2021
• ISBN: 9781515450535

Evelyn E. Smith

Evelyn E. Smith (25 July 1922 – 4 July 2000) was an American writer of science fiction and mysteries, as well as a compiler of crossword puzzles.

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My Fair Planet

by Evelyn E. Smith

©2021 Positronic Publishing

My Fair Planet is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, locales or institutions is entirely coincidental.

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My Fair Planet

All the world’s a stage, so there was room even for this bad actor...only he intended to direct it!

As Paul Lambrequin was clambering up the stairs of his rooming house, he met a man whose face was all wrong. Good evening, Paul said politely and was about to continue on his way when the man stopped him.

You are the first person I have encountered in this place who has not shuttered at the sight of me, he said in a toneless voice with an accent that was outside the standard repertoire.

Am I? Paul asked, bringing himself back from one of the roseate dreams with which he kept himself insulated from a not-too-kind reality. I daresay that’s because I’m a bit near-sighted. He peered vaguely at the stranger. Then he recoiled.

What is incorrect about me, then? the stranger demanded. Do I not have two eyes, one nose and one mouth, the identical as other people?

Paul studied the other man. "Yes, but somehow they seem to be put together all wrong. Not that you