You can read Neil Gaiman's "The Problem of Susan," a response to the much-discussed exclusion of Susan Pevensie from Heaven at the conclusion of the The Chronicles of Narnia, at Cal Webfiles. You can for the time being, anyway -- I suspect the copyright status of this particular Web site is questionable at best.

Gaiman's story is about an interview with a grownup Professor Susan Pevensie, among other things. It's quite interesting, though be warned that it's more than a little adult -- elsewhere in the story Aslan gets down and dirty with the White Witch.

The professor cuts herself a slice of chocolate cake. She seems to be remembering. And then she says, "I doubt there was much opportunity for nylons and lipsticks after her family was killed. There certainly wasn't for me. A little money -- less than one might imagine -- from her parents' estate, to lodge and feed her. No luxuries."

"There must have been something else wrong with Susan," says the young journalist, "something they didn't tell us. Otherwise she wouldn't have been damned like that -- denied the Heaven of further up and further in. I mean, all the people she had ever cared about had gone on to their reward, in a world of magic and waterfalls and joy. And she was left behind."

"I don't know about the girl in the books," says the professor, "but remaining behind would also have meant that she was available to identify her brothers' and her little sister's bodies. There were a lot of dead people in that crash. I was taken to a nearby school -- it was the first day of term, and they had taken the bodies there. My older brother looked okay. Like he was asleep. The other two were a bit messier."