I surrender

OK, writers never retire. I admit it. Try as I might, I can't "retire" as a writer. However, this does not mean I have to be "visible" in any way. I can be an underground writer. A posthumous writer. Which is to say, on the bus ride today an old idea for a play kept bugging me, I ended up making a rough outline, I dig it, and it can join Oregon Dream as a "posthumous play," that is, plays that cannot be produced until after I'm gone. Done. Finished. "What an extravagance! What a relief!"

There may even be a book down the road, Three Posthumous Plays. Or how many. Has a ring to it.