My Fair Planet

A struggling actor gets more than he bargained for when he agrees to tutor an alien in the art of being human. Ivo Darcy hails from the fifth planet of Sirius, sent to Earth to study humanity before his species colonizes our world - and he's chosen the theater as his window into the human soul. What begins as an odd mentorship becomes a disturbing inversion: the student begins to outperform the teacher. Paul Lambrequin has spent years chasing recognition he never received. Now an alien who can assume any form is using those very acting lessons to become a more convincing Paul than Paul himself. The horror isn't that Ivo is inhuman - it's that he's becoming alarmingly, convincingly human in all the ways Paul never was. Smith writes with sharp wit and genuine pathos, asking what remains of identity when performance becomes indistinguishable from the original. A clever, unsettling meditation on fame, authenticity, and the masks we wear - disguised as a breezy 1950s space comedy.