Black and grey abstract tattoo of curved, layered shapes on the inner forearm near the wrist.

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Curved abstract tattoo on the forearm

Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A close photograph of a hand and forearm with a tattoo of a solid, tapering curved shape with two thinner curved lines beside it. The solid fill has soft grey shading that fades toward the edges, and the outlines are clean. The ink is black and grey on a plain light background, with the tattoo placed near the wrist.

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The wind off the estuary had been worrying at the big top all week, testing the seams the way a dog tests a gate. On Thursday it found the weak place at the north pole, and the canvas lifted like a held breath, then sank again, heavy with the damp.

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My father stood under it with a bucket of tar and said nothing, which was how he said most things now. The painted swoop over the ticket booth had been Grandad's work: a solid curl of red-black cloth with two thin ribbons trailing off its tail. It had sold more tickets than the elephant ever did. Nobody in Wisbech had come to the show since the Christmas before last. The council man had visited on Tuesday with a clipboard and a kind face, and he had used the word flats twice.

On Friday we climbed the ladders at first light, Dad and I and two of the boys who had stayed on for wages nobody could pay. We were lashing the crown when the gust came off the water. The old pennant on the tallest mast tore loose from its ropes, snapped taut once like a sail taking the wind, and went out over the field with its two pale streamers behind it.

We watched until it was a dark comma above the dyke. Dad climbed down, set the bucket on the grass, and handed me the stencil Grandad had cut from card in 1958. "Keep that," he said. "The sea can have the rest." I folded the card into my coat pocket and felt its edges through the lining, sharp as a line drawn fresh.

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