Colour tattoo of a cartoon ginger cat with large glossy eyes and a curled striped tail, placed on the upper back near the shoulder blade.

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Big-eyed ginger cat on a shoulder blade

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A cartoon-style cat with oversized glossy black eyes, a small pink nose and a soft outline sits upright, its tail curling into a spiral at its base. The linework is light and sketchy, with soft orange and ochre shading and a warm wash behind the figure. The tattoo sits centrally on the upper back near the shoulder blade, with plain skin filling the rest of the frame.

Fine line Back Shoulder Cat Kitten Tail Eye

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Pip, the cat has moved into the bakery for good, and I have stopped pretending she belongs to anyone else. She arrived the week the ovens broke, a ginger scrap with eyes so wide that Mrs Okafor swore someone had left two lamps on inside her head. Nobody in Thornwick claims her. The postman feeds her, the vicar feeds her, and I give her the heel of every loaf, which is why she sits on the sill above the proving drawer looking like she has paid the rent.

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Last Tuesday the flour merchant's boy knocked over the rye sack and went white as paper. Biscuit did not run. She padded the length of the shop with her tail curled into that tight spiral she makes when she is thinking, and she sat on his boot until he laughed. Then she sneezed a little cloud of flour across the counter, and we both laughed harder.

I am writing because the lane is full of talk about the new road, and the council man has a clipboard and a face like cold dough. He says the cottages behind the wood will come down by spring. I told him the cat goes where I go. He wrote something down and did not look up.

If the ovens are fixed by Friday, come home and help me carry the trays. Bring your brother's old scarf for the cat. She hates it, which means she will sleep on it all winter.

Yours in flour, Nan