Colour tattoo of a black classic muscle car with a yellow stripe, surrounded by yellow and orange flames, on the forearm.

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Classic muscle car in flames on a forearm

Realism · Forearm · Colour · Photo

A black classic muscle car with a yellow racing stripe and chrome wheels is shown in side view, with a front-facing grille and headlight visible. Yellow and orange flames wrap around the car on all sides against the skin. The car has smooth shading and reflections, while the flames are bold and stylised, and the design fills the frame of the photo.

Realism Traditional Forearm Car Flame Vehicle

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Rain had been falling on the market at Harrowgate since Tuesday, and the stallholders had stopped pretending otherwise. Old Maddie Penrose sold cabbages under a tarpaulin that sagged like a wet sail. Then the car came down Mill Street with no engine noise at all, only a low hiss, and the flames behind it were the colour of marigolds. They bent flat in the wind as if the rain had no business with them.

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It was black and low, with a yellow stripe down the bonnet like a road someone had painted for it. Its chrome wheels threw back the streetlamps. The boy at the fishmonger's said it was a horse, and his mother cuffed him for the lie, though she had seen the same thing. Nobody saw a driver. The car pulled up beside the cabbages, its headlight came on round and pale, and the fire along its flanks licked out over the wet cobbles without going out.

Maddie asked what it wanted. The car said nothing, which was its way, but its grille opened and a sound came out like a match struck in a cupboard. She understood it was hungry. So she fetched the one thing on her stall that had never sold, a bundle of dry hay from her late husband's barn, tied with twine. The flames took it, flared gold, and the car settled lower on its tyres, content.

In the morning the market was dry for the first time in a week, and the cobbles steamed in the sun. Maddie found a streak of yellow paint across her counter and a single chrome hubcap under the cabbages. Every Thursday after that she left a bale of hay at the corner of Mill Street, and every Thursday it was gone by dawn, and the rain never once fell while the road was lit.