“I got the time off!” The familiar voice emanating from the landline handset was jubilant.

A broad grin crossed Sunset’s face. “Great! Y’know, I can’t remember the last time both our vacation times lined up.”

“Four years, seven months, and twelve days.” The dry, and dryly humorous, reply came back instantly. “But who’s counting?”

Sunset rolled her eyes but couldn’t help laughing. “Well, when we get home we can start planning where to go. After all, we’ve got two worlds to choose from.”

It’s not huge, but I always have been a little bothered I never finished the landscaping on the map of the site. So I did. The revised PDF file now is available for download.

. . . Now my muse Icara is insisting I need to develop the fiction-within-fiction animated series Sunset and Rose discuss in The Campus, with the Mane Seven as the senior officers of the starship Harmony. The trick is developing a space-opera setting and series premise I can work with that still is plausible for half-hour animé-style television. I’ll collect thoughts on it here so I don’t forget

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The Everfree Satellite Campus of the Foreign Service Institute stands in the midst of a sprawling parcel of otherwise undeveloped land outside Canterlot City limits. This tract lies off the same highway serving the pre-existing summer camp of the same name and borders the extensive wilderness parklands north of the metropolitan area.

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The astute reader may notice I use a consistent design language for the artwork posted in each of my story cards. The proximate inspiration for developing it came from an editorial by Novel-Idea. I might quibble with a few of the precepts he advances—partly as a professional graphic designer and partly as a matter of personal taste—but it’s a

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