Small colour tattoo of a rounded rectangular block with a purple filling on the outer forearm, drawn with a black outline.

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Cartoon block with purple filling on a forearm

Forearm · Colour · Photo

A simple cartoon-style tattoo of a rounded rectangular block, shown in a three-quarter view with a cut edge revealing a purple-pink filling. The linework is a clean black outline with soft shading on the top face and along one side. Muted pink, brown and purple inks are used, and the tattoo sits on a hairy forearm against a background of green leaves and small white flowers.

Forearm

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Every Saturday Mrs Ostler sliced the day's loaves on the marble, and every Saturday the little oblong cake in the back case sulked. It had been baked with a strip of plum-coloured sponge running through its middle, the way her late husband's mother had taught her, and nobody bought it because it looked like something you'd find under a sofa.

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Her nephew Tomas, who did the deliveries on a bicycle with a wicker basket, said it needed a new story. "Tell them it's a secret," he said. "Tell them the purple is a river and the outside is the hills."

She didn't say it, but she did cut it differently. One morning she sliced it end-on so the filling showed like a ribbon through a cliff face, and propped a card beside it that read: The river goes through the hill. Customers who had walked past for years stopped. A man in a wet coat bought the whole thing and asked for it wrapped in brown paper, and by noon there was a queue down to the postbox.

The cake was gone by teatime. Mrs Ostler fished the card out of the bin, turned it over, and wrote on the back in pencil: Next week, the sea. Then she went to find more plums.