Small solid black cat silhouette tattoo on the top of a foot, close to the toes.

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Cat silhouette on the top of a foot

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A small, solid black silhouette of a cat with its tail curling along the side sits on the top of a foot near the toes. The shape has no interior linework or shading, and its edges look slightly soft. The photograph is taken from above against a warm wooden floor, with the tattoo placed near the centre of the frame.

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The scissors were Auntie Vi's, the good pair with the bent handle, and she would not let me near them until I had stopped chewing the ends of my plaits. So for the whole of that wet August I sat on the step of the chemist's in Ashby Parva with a sheet of black card on my knee, watching the bus come in and out, and cutting cats.

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A penny a cat, or two for a shilling if the customer had a real one to match. Mr Holroyd bought one for his pipe rack. The vicar's wife wanted a cat stalking a pair of gloves. I could do them sitting, or curled with the tail round like a question mark, and I could do them nearly without looking, the paper turning in my fingers while the blades never stopped.

The cat that came closest to Vi's was the grey one who slept on the post office sill, a creature called Biscuit who belonged to nobody and let the whole street feed him. I cut him one afternoon while he watched me through the glass. When I held the card up to the light he was there, flat and dark, tail curled along his flank, exactly as he sat. Mrs Dunn said she would have it framed. Biscuit never came back to the sill after that. We found him three days later under the hedge by the level crossing.

I still have that cutting, folded inside my hymn book, the only one I never sold. When I open it the cat is always sitting in the same place, with nowhere else to go.

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