Colour tattoo of the grinning Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland in pink and purple with yellow eyes, its tail coiling upward, on a leg.

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Cheshire Cat with spiral tail on a leg

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A pink and purple Cheshire Cat sits in a crouched pose, grinning broadly with yellow eyes and stripes on its body. Its long tail forms a series of loose spirals that rise diagonally up and to the right. The linework is bold and outlined, with soft tonal shading on the body and lighter pink wash on the tail, set against slightly reddened skin.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Mind your tea, Mrs Pargeter, it's been stood since the bell went. No, don't shift him off the ledger, that's where he likes his seat. Him with the stripes and the teeth all round like a crescent moon. He came up the stairs of Seacrest House the winter the tide took the pier, and he never once walked. He coiled. Up the banister, round the newel post, into the linen cupboard, a spring of pink wool unwinding as if somebody had wound a clock and left it to run down behind him.

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Captain Foy in room four swore the grin stayed in the hallway a full minute after the rest of the cat had gone, hanging over the coat hooks like a slice of lamplight. Miss Ada Lusk tried to shoo him out with a broom, and he simply unrolled onto the windowsill, tail first, and told her the sea had got the weather wrong. He had a way of being right about things nobody had asked him, and a worse way of being there when the rent went missing.

So when the new lodger came down the stairs last Michaelmas with a face like a shut shop, I left the spare key on its hook and set the kettle on. A cat that grins that wide has seen the whole house and knows what it's worth keeping. Next morning the key was gone, the kettle was cold, and on the back page of the ledger, in pink chalk, someone had drawn a spiral that curled off the edge of the paper and kept on going.