But he's said in interviews that he made some choices in writing the story specifically designed to keep it distant enough not to be a problem, which probably explains why "The Problem of Susan" involves the two women talking about Susan the way they do -- treating it as a story they've both read, rather than having the old woman be Susan. My story wouldn't have that distancing, and while I wholeheartedly believe that it should count as a transformative work, I don't have the money or will to defend that in court if I got sued.

(Heck, even with "The Last Wendy" I erred on the side of caution by donating my payment to the Great Ormond Street Hospital, which holds a kind-of-sort-of copyright on Peter Pan in perpetuity -- the situation there is tangled, though by the information I found I'm in the clear. I did get one extremely wrong-headed rejection for the story, though, from somebody who apparently believes Disney owns the copyright on the original story.)