My father once told me...

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Tendril 1142: Every ghost has...

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Tendril 1136: Restrict your ghosts...

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Tendril 1087: Sometimes ideas...

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Tendril 1087: Sometimes ideas...

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Faces, Forms, and Things 22: Three Ghosts

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Faces, Forms, and Things 22: Three Ghosts

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Visual Mass 5: Apparition 9

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Visual Mass 5: Apparition 9

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Faces, Forms, and Things 15: Jagg (Just Another Generic Ghost)

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Faces, Forms, and Things 15: Jagg (Just Another Generic Ghost)

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Five Types of Ships in Friendships

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Five Types of Friends in Friendships

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A Dark Soul in Search of a Ghost

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A Dark Soul in Search of a Ghost

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Tendril 963

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Tendril 963: Ghost On the Wire

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Today's Tendril...

Today's Tendril... "Periphery"

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Said the...

   In Ghosting 101, a first-year ghost asked the ancient professor, "What do you do on Halloween?"

   The professor replied, "I visit my old haunts."

   The class let out a collective, "Boo!!!"

   "Yes, I do that, too, but with a lot more shriek to it," said the crafty instructor, and gave the students a wicked, toothy grin.

   Next door, in Scary Music 101, a skeleton played a rimshot on some turtle shells, using werewolf femurs from the Bone Department.

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Little Ghost Spider

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Today's Tendril...

In the restless isolation of a sleepless night, pondering destiny is like catching a glimpse of a ghost when you're staring absently into the void... It's a fleeting thing, at best, and, at worst, an itchy, scratchy question mark slipping-and-sliding across the surface of the mind.

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Three Two-sentence Horror Stories (for Halloween) + 1 Bonus Story

My greatest struggle in life had always been fitting in with the world around me, because it was easier to be me and alone, than to be part of a group and feign interest and acceptability.

Funny the type of stuff that pops into your head when you've got eternity in a coffin.

Emily never cared for the sensationalized and exaggerated quality of so-called urban legends, especially those that were more gore and terror than clever and unsettling.

She quickly changed her mind when her car broke down on a dusty country road, on Halloween night, and a scarecrow with red eyes and a battle-axe leapt out of the cornfield on the other side of the road.

The over-sized jack-o-lantern looked particularly menacing in the middle of my living room, with its eerie green glow pulsing through missing chunks of its pumpkin flesh, and a bright red goo dripping from its pointy-toothed maw.

Too bad it was Easter and I live alone.


Bonus Story

Every night for several weeks our passion for each other was fulfilled in complete and undifferentiated darkness, and she would not allow me see her, no matter how much I pleaded.

But she finally gave into my request and revealed herself to me by soft candlelight.

That's when I realized that the ghost I had been calling Josephina was actually a Joseph.


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The Last Grain

    Several weeks ago, a grand field near my home held row upon row of tall, thick, healthy green corn stalks. All of the stalks stood proudly, their uniform height topped with marvelous tassels that bobbed and nodded whenever a strong breeze passed through them. And when the sunlight caught the ears just right, you'd swear they were the big, bold, and husky cousins of the pussy willow. Oh, such a sight to behold.

    But then the harvest came and went, like a thief in the night, and the cornfield became a ghost of itself. Even worse, though, the field became home to hundreds, if not thousands, of honking and foraging geese.

    Alas, even their presence is, at best, temporary. For once they've had their fill of the harvest's leftovers—unprocessed parts, mashed bits, waste grain and the like—they'll depart, en masse, for warmer climes and robust acreage. (I'm all but convinced that the resident field mice despise the transient fowls and are given to calling them "the amazing pooping machines" and "the fair-weather feathers.")

    Still, once the geese leave, all of us (mice included) will wait impatiently for the first snowfall, so that the vast emptiness that occupies both land and spirit will be concealed by a welcomed blanket of pure, undifferentiated white.

    The End

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The Deviation Exploration

Finding a deviation in the data is one thing.

Potentially an unsurprising thing.

Maybe even a normal thing.

Finding a deviation that is a true oddity,

One that represents a real ghost—

A ghost with teeth—

Is an eye-opening thing.

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Today's Tendril...

When old ghosts are stirred, bearable aches become new groans.

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Today's Tendril...

Sometimes love leaves breadcrumbs. Sometimes it leaves craters. Either way, love leaves something behind to find — or avoid.

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Once Dreamt and Beyond

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