Black and grey fine line tattoo of a carousel with horses and a striped canopy, placed on the ankle.

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Carousel tattoo on the ankle

Fine line · Ankle · Black and grey · Photo

A small carousel with a domed, striped canopy and several horses on its platform, shown in black ink. The linework is fine and the horses and canopy are shaded with soft grey tones. The tattoo sits centrally on the lower leg, photographed against a dark background.

Fine line Ankle Horse

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The fair came through Hollin Cross on the last train of the Tuesday, when the platform lamps were already lit and nobody was waiting for anything. Ada Pryce, who kept both the level crossing gate and the ticket hatch, watched the wagons come off the branch line one after another, sheeted in tarpaulin, and then saw the canopy unfold like a umbrella opened in a parlour.

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The carousel had four horses, though the man who wound its brass key said there had been six once. Two had been left at Carlisle, he said, and another had gone into a river at Settle. The horses were grey and dappled, their manes worn to pale wire, and they turned to an organ tune nobody on the platform could name. Mr Tully, the stationmaster, who had not smiled since the spring, stood at the gate with his watch open in his palm and counted the third horse going past him again and again.

The man told Ada the carousel only stopped when someone rode the horse with no rider. Ada had never been one for fairs. She climbed up anyway, onto the bare saddle with its cracked leather and its chain bridle, and the organ slowed under her like a tired engine. The lamps swam past. Mr Tully's face went by, then the ticket hatch, then the gate, and each time she came round it was a little more dark.

When the platform finally stood still, the wagons had gone and the canopy was folded back into the night. Ada was sitting on the bench with her hands in her lap, and the brass chain lay coiled on the boards beside her, warm as a kettle. Down the line a signal dropped with a clank, for a train that had not been timed for anyone, and Mr Tully's hat sat on the bench beside her where he had left it.