Ember Row

Twelve small flames, and not one of them real.

Strung along a black wire vine, the tapers flicker the way candles actually flicker — uneven, restless, never quite settling. Run it along a mantel, a windowsill, a porch rail. From the street it reads as a dozen open flames in the dark.

No wax down the wall. No smoke. Nothing to blow out before bed.

• Garland of 12 flameless taper candles
• Warm flickering LED — the movement is the point
• Ivory tapers on a black wire vine that bends where you need it
• Lay it flat, drape it, or wind it along a rail

Put it under Drifting Souls and the ghosts pick up the light as they move.