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Few names are so feared and revered as that of Pull.

His work extends time.

His fiendish depictions and gloomy descriptions stalk the modern consciousness.

And that is because his stories touch on our morbid fascinations,

our everyday life and fears, love, hate, death.

Excuse me, there's someone I'd like you to meet.

This is Lenore. She's a common raven, but you shouldn't call her that.

For Lenore is friends with the grim reaper, metaphorically, at least.

Throughout many cultures, the raven has been seen as an omen of death.

But what does that mean?

Look inside a dictionary and you'll find less lines than a crossword puzzle.

Death is a mystery beyond simplification.

Yet if there's one thing we know for certain,

outside the moral histories of ancient religion,

no one has ever returned from death.

And in this story, despite what one woman would dream to be true,

that truth is painfully recalled in one word by one bird, the raven.

Bereft by Jake Weber, adapted from the poem The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, 2021.

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