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Blue patterned shark illustration

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A side-on drawing of a shark swimming to the right, with its dorsal, pectoral and tail fins clearly outlined. The body is filled with overlapping blue circles and loops in several shades, with white highlights and a dark blue outline. The shark sits centred on a plain white background with generous space around it.

Shark Fish Circle Pattern Outline

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The sea wall went on the second night of January, and by morning the bottom field at Scarrow was a lake with the tops of the fence posts poking out like bad teeth. Dad would have sworn at the council and then gone out in his wellies anyway. I went out instead, with a torch and the dog, who refused to go within ten yards of the water.

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Whatever the flood had brought in, it had left a skin of ice over the ditch by the gate, and that ice was full of bubbles, hundreds of them, each one a small round lens holding a little piece of my torch. When the light hit them they went blue, then white, then blue again, layered like coins under glass. I crouched there and counted until my knees ached. Some circles overlapped, some looped round each other, and where they gathered thickest I could make out a long shape: a back, a sweep of tail, a fin standing up out of the frost like a sail.

Tom rang at six from the garage in Wells to ask whether the sea had reached the lane. I told him about the fin. He said I'd been at the cider again, which was fair, and asked if the hens were still laying. They were. I fed them, then went back out in the dark with a bucket of grain I didn't need to carry.

The ice cracked under the dog's weight just as the sky started to grey. The shape broke apart into a hundred separate bubbles that drifted off from the gate and slid under the ditch toward the sea. I stood there until my torch dimmed, then went in and put the kettle on, leaving the gate open behind me for whatever was passing through.