Fine line tattoo of small animals holding blue, purple and red balloons across the upper arm.

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Animals holding balloons on upper arm

Fine line · Upper arm · Mixed · Photo

A series of small animals, which look like cats or rabbits, hang from strings of balloons that rise along the upper arm. The linework is thin and mostly black, with the balloon outlines in blue, purple and red. The design is spaced across the arm with plenty of open skin between the figures.

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The wind off the front had been wrong all week, shoving the kites sideways and sending the gulls under the shelter like they'd been paid to. Mum said I should pack the stall in before it started raining, but Ada Mintz, who has sold ice creams from the same hatch since before I was born, told me a balloon man who packs up early never sells a single one.

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I had three animals left from the batch my uncle moulded out of cheap latex: a cat, a rabbit, and something that could have been either, depending on how squinted you were. Each had a little bow at the throat and a string knotted to a balloon, blue, purple and red, the colours that sell fastest on a grey day. A girl in yellow wellies had been eyeing them since noon, but her father kept saying tomorrow.

At half past four the sky over the pier went the colour of a bruise, and the first real gust took the lot. I grabbed for the red string and missed, and watched the little rabbit lift past the lamp posts, the cat bobbing after it, the purple one already a dot above the water. Nobody else on the prom looked up. Ada did, and she laughed so hard she had to sit down on her hatch.

I told the girl in yellow wellies that they had gone off to find a bigger seaside. She didn't believe me, but she waved at the sky all the way up the steps, and so, if I'm honest, did I.

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