Black ink cat tattoo with blue and orange eyes, a spiral body and striped tail, on the side of a person's torso.

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Cat with spiral body on the side

Ribs · Mixed · Photo

A cat's head with pointed ears, whiskers and a smile sits above a bold black spiral body, with a striped tail curling beneath it. The linework is solid black with the stripes and spiral filled in, and the eyes are the only colour, one blue and one orange. The design is centred on bare skin along the side of the torso, with a grey and pink garment visible at the lower right edge.

Ribs Cat Spiral Whiskers Eye

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The rain had been coming off the canvas awnings of Saltergate Market since before dawn, and Dorothy Pell had sold nothing but a single bent spoon. Then the cat came down the wet cobbles, its tail curled behind it like a rope someone had wound around one finger, and sat squarely on her brass scales.

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It had two eyes, one the blue of a gas flame, one the orange of marmalade held up to a window. "Whose are you?" she asked. The cat smiled the way cats do when they know the answer is none of your business, and nudged a weight off the pan with one paw. Dorothy weighed out a quarter pound of tea for a man who had not asked for tea, and the scales balanced without her touching them.

By four o'clock every stallholder on the row had a story about the cat and none of them agreed. The fishmonger swore it had taken his eel. The button woman said it grew a new stripe on its tail each time someone in the market told a lie. Dorothy kept her mouth shut and gave it a saucer of milk from the tea urn, and the cat lapped at it slowly while the rain ran down the spiral of its own body.

When the lamps came on, the cat was gone, and so was the brass weight. In its place, on the wet stone, lay a single coil of striped tail, neatly folded, with a note in purple ink: Cheaper than you think. Dorothy turned it over twice, then tucked it into her apron, where it stayed dry all the way home.