Devil Linda

Humanity has the strange habit of thinking of thinking of the personifications of Death, Time, and things of that sort of immortal but this is incorrect. All things live and die and personifications are the same as any of the rest of us. Not just the personifications even, God and the Devil also live and die in a human lifespan, and heirs appear for both of them. This is a very good thing for the sake of humanity because humans change over time and it is nice to have our deity and personifications change as quickly as we do. Usually when such a creature dies a normal human, not necessarily one that exudes the qualities you would expect of their position, takes over for them.

It was simply by luck that that the current devil was a rather goth teenage girl, though her personality was far short from being demonic. Indeed she could only be called normal. It was generally understood that after she got older she would have to start living most of her time in the underworld but since she was still only seventeen she still lived with her parents and she only allowed the demons to bother her outside of the house. Telling her parents that she was the devil seemed like a bad idea. It did make talking about what her plans for the future were with her parents seem unrealistic and silly though.

“I still don't understand why you decided to drop out of high school Linda,” her mother started on the old and familiar rant. You are ruining your life this way, you can't get anywhere if you don't at least have a high school diploma and a college degree is much better.” Linda thought for a moment about the position of extreme power that she was guaranteed and almost laughed but she knew that would only offend her mother and that she would then get a further lecture on lack of respect.

Linda really liked her parents, which was the whole reason that she had insisted on staying in their house instead of instantly going to live in hell when she had inherited. There were very nice rooms reserved for the devil that she was passing up for her parent's little suburban home. After she moved out she had promised her demons that she would move into hell and only come up every once in a while to visit her parents and let them visit her. Of course that meant that she would have to lead a double life so her parents wouldn't worry but as far as she was concerned they were worth it. Hell had no shortage of money, the road to hell was almost famously paved with it, so it wouldn't be hard for her to buy a little house and pretend that she had a job.

“I have to go to work mom,” Linda interrupted her mother's rant but she kissed her mother on the cheek before heading out the door. She had told her parents she had gotten a job at the local hamburger joint and she even had a demon double working there in her place in case someone decided to check up on her.

To be continued...