Small black tattoo of a cat with an arched back and raised tail on the inside of a forearm, near the wrist.

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Black cat tattoo on the forearm

Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A small cat is tattooed in solid black ink, shown with its back arched and tail curling up, with a simple face and legs. The linework is bold and minimal, with no shading, and the design sits against plain skin. The photo is a close, straight-on view of the forearm, with a purple top and jeans visible at the edge of the frame.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The fair pulls into Stoke Lacey on a wet Tuesday, and you are the one who carries the cat down the lorry ramp, because nobody else on the field will touch her. Ninepence has travelled with the show longer than the steam organ has, and she sleeps in the tin of tombola prizes between the plush bears and the cracked china dogs. She arches at everything: the generator, the gypsy caravan's new paint, the tractor that clips the dodgem track. Her tail goes up in a hook like the top of a question mark, and the children think it means she is about to sing.

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The boy from the village comes on the Thursday with a fistful of coppers and a face that wants something he cannot name. He wins nothing on the coconut shy, but he watches the cat sitting on the stall's rail, and when he reaches for her she goes stiff, back bowed high, legs planted, and hisses like a kettle left on too long. He laughs, then stops laughing. You see him try again later that night, and again she turns her whole black shape into a warning, and in the end he walks away with his pockets full of nothing.

The fair packs up in the dark on the Sunday. You load the bears, the dogs, the tin, and turn round to call her, and the ramp is empty except for a single black hair caught on the tailgate. You drive the length of the lane before you look back in the mirror. On the top of the Big Wheel, lit only by the last orange bulb, a small shape sits with its back arched and its tail curled up at the end, watching the road go quiet. She has chosen the sky over the lorry, and you let her keep it.

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