Fine line black cat tattoo with a curled tail and closed eyes on a calf, with two small red paw prints and hearts above it.

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Fine line cat with paw prints on a calf

Fine line · Calf · Mixed · Photo

A slim black cat with a curling tail, closed eyes and whiskers is drawn in delicate single lines, sitting on a lower leg. Above it sit two small red shapes, a paw print and a heart, and the black linework contrasts with the skin tone. The composition is centred on the leg, with a floor and a sock edge visible at the edges of the frame.

Fine line Calf Cat Paw print Heart

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Rain came sideways down the market by half past four, rattling the awnings and turning the gutters into little brown rivers. Dorothy Pike had already lost one tarpaulin to it and had no intention of losing another. Beneath her trestle of secondhand paperbacks, the grey cat that nobody owned sat with her tail curled round her feet and her eyes shut, as though the weather were a rumour she had decided not to believe.

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Dorothy had been feeding her since March, scraps of mackerel from the stall next door, which Terry the fishmonger pretended not to see. He called the cat Duchess. Dorothy called her nothing at all, because Frank used to say that naming a stray was how you ended up paying her rent. Frank had been gone eleven months. The cat had arrived the week after the funeral, unasked, and taken the spot beside the cash tin as if she had been hired for it.

At five the crowd thinned to nothing and the lamps came on in the fruit stall. Dorothy stood to pack the books and saw the cat rise, stretch long and slow, and pad out to the edge of the pavement. There she stopped, looked back once, and pressed a soft print into the grey puddle, then another beside it. She sat down with her head cocked, as if waiting for a reply.

Dorothy knew a summons when she saw one. She pulled her coat over her head and followed the little prints down Cross Lane to the shuttered tea rooms. In the lee of the doorway sat a tin of tuna, and tucked under it was a card in Frank's handwriting, the one he had kept in his jacket for years: For the one who never comes when called, with a small heart drawn in the corner. Dorothy laughed out loud. The cat, quite unbothered, began to wash her face.