Colour tattoo of a seated cartoon monkey with blue face and green robe inside fine geometric lines, with orange watercolour splashes, on the upper arm.

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Cartoon monkey in geometric lines on upper arm

Geometric · Upper arm · Colour · Photo

A seated cartoon monkey with a blue face, green robe and a tall staff sits cross-legged inside a large circle of thin black geometric lines formed from triangles and intersecting strokes. Soft orange and red watercolour splashes spread across the upper left of the design. The tattoo is shown in colour on the outer upper arm against a plain light background and dark blue sleeve.

Geometric Upper arm Monkey Cartoon character Staff Triangle Circle Geometric line Watercolour splash

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Just past three, the children's ward on Kestrel wing had gone quiet enough that Hanna could hear the fridge in the parents' kitchen humming through two sets of doors. She had been watching Mr Okonedo's monitor for ten minutes, and his breathing was steady. Across the corridor, someone had dropped an orange watercolour tin by the sluice room, and it had split open and spread across the lino like a sunrise nobody had asked for.

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Vincent, the night porter, sat on an upturned bucket beside the lifts with a mop handle across his knees, the way other men held a pint. A postcard of a blue-faced monkey was pinned above the staff kettle, cross-legged in a web of thin black lines, and he had been talking about it for months. 'He's not sitting,' Vincent said. 'He's holding the whole thing still so the rest of it can turn.' Hanna didn't believe him, but she liked the sound of it.

At four the lift doors opened on a boy of nine dragging a drip stand, wanting to know whether the orange on the floor was paint or blood. Hanna said paint. Vincent set the mop handle against the wall, crouched in front of the boy, and pointed at the edge of the splash where it had already started to dry. He said some colours are made to run before they settle.

When the boy was back in bed, Hanna mopped up what she could, but the stain stayed in the grain of the floor, orange at the edges and paler in the middle, and she decided to leave it there.