# Lull  ## Metadata - Author: [[Conjunctions]] - Full Title: Lull - Category: #articles - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - Summary: EDITOR’S NOTE: We are thrilled to present Kelly Link’s weird and wonderful short story “Lull,” with special permission by the author. “Lull” copyright ©2002 was first published in Conjunctions 39 and reprinted in Kelly Link’s Magic For Beginners (Random House, 2014). - URL: https://weirdfictionreview.com/2014/06/lull/ ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > The Devil feels right at home. He and the cheerleader make a nest of coats and sit down on them, facing each other. The Devil turns the bright, constant beam of the flashlight on the cheerleader. She’s wearing a little flippy skirt. Her knees are up, making a tent out of her skirt. The tent is full of shadows — so is the closet. The Devil conjures up another Devil, another cheerleader, mouse-sized, both of them, sitting under the cheerleader’s skirt. The closet is full of Devils and cheerleaders. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01k63v8p9fdkw0gmy21nxneafj)) > While Ed’s been at his conference, Susan has been doing some housework. She’s done some work up in the attic which we won’t talk about. Not yet. Down in the spare bathroom in the basement, she’s set up this machine, which we get around to later, and this machine makes Susans. What Susan was hoping for was a machine that would bring back Andrew. (Her brother. But you knew that.) Only it turns out that getting Andrew back requires a different machine, a bigger machine. Susan needs help making that machine, and so the new Susans are going to come in handy after all. Over the course of the next few days, the Susans explain all this to Ed. > Susan doesn’t expect Ed will be very helpful. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01k63x807zng281wx4evqcs68x))