White single-line drawing of a small circle above a stylised wave on a dark background, a fine line design with no body placement shown.

Circle above a wave line drawing

Fine line · Black and grey · Flash

A small open circle sits above a stylised wave drawn in thin white continuous lines on a near-black background. The linework is simple and even, with no shading. The composition is centred, with plenty of empty space around the circle and the wave.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Sit down, the pair of you, and mind that gull, he thinks your chips are his. Right. You'll want to know why the harbour at Calder Quay has never once held a full moon on the water. Forty years back, a fishwife called Morag Pell was mending nets on the breakwater when the moon came down the sky like a dropped coin, all silver and no hurry, and it struck the sea with a sound like a cup set down too hard.

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The sea swallowed it whole and the ripples went out in rings, white on black, the way they do when a stone goes down a well. Morag didn't scream. She ran to Hendry's shop for a coil of rope, because that is what Calder women do when something is lost, and when she came back the water had risen over the wall, tall as the chapel, and was carrying a little light up the slipway like a lantern held high.

She threw the rope. Nobody living knows what she meant to catch, but the wave took the end of it, and the moon came up out of the swell on the crest, dripping, and hung itself back in the sky where it belongs. Only it was lighter than before, and a bit of it stayed behind in the sea. That is why the tide turns early on full moons, and why the lobstermen won't shift their pots on a Thursday.

Go on, look over the wall. Not at the lamps, at the water. There, under the black, you can see the rope still going down, with a knot tied in the end of it. Morag never did come back for it. She only ever wanted the moon to have something to hold on to.

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