Black silhouette tattoo with pink splashes across the upper arm and shoulder, photographed against a dark background.

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Black silhouette and pink splash on upper arm

Upper arm · Mixed · Photo

A solid black silhouette shape, possibly a figure or bird, sits on the upper arm and reaches toward the shoulder, with ragged edges. Pink and magenta splatter marks spread around the black shapes and across the top of the shoulder. The image is a close crop of the arm against a plain black background, with the subject filling most of the frame.

Upper arm Shoulder Silhouette Splatter Abstract Pink Bird

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Sit down, the pair of you, and mind the wet bench. The 6.10 won't be in for twenty minutes, so I'll tell you about the blackbird that stopped the Halvergate line for a whole Tuesday in 1961. Nobody believed it, which is why the signalman kept the page from the logbook in his tin for forty years.

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It came in through the open top of the signal box on a day the rain had turned the cutting to soup. Bert Pell was eating his bread and dripping when the thing landed on the levers, black as a coal scuttle and flapping like someone shaking out a wet sheet. Every time it beat its wings the pink dust off the hawthorn blew across the glass, and the lamps went that colour too. Bert swore it was a bird made of ink. He'd have sworn anything by three in the afternoon.

Here's the part they tell wrong in the pub. The bird didn't peck at the levers. It walked along the frame, one lever at a time, lifting each one a finger's width and setting it down again, as if it was checking the points were true. When the Up express came thundering round the bend, the bird was on the last lever, and Bert, who had never once in his life moved a lever out of turn, found his hand already on the brake.

The express stopped with its nose a yard from the fallen gantry. The bird was gone. On the sill there was a single feather, black, with a smear of pink at the tip, and Bert kept it in the tin with the logbook page. Ask the stationmaster for it if you don't believe me. He's a cousin of mine, and he'll show it to you for a pint.