Flash sheet of five cartoon sharks, each with a cream banner carrying a slogan, drawn with bold black outlines in muted colour.

Five cartoon sharks on banners flash sheet

Neo-trad · Mixed · Flash

The sheet shows five cartoon shark designs arranged in a grid on a white background, each with a cream ribbon banner across it. The sharks vary in species and pose, including a brown open-mouthed shark, a grey great white, a pink goblin shark, a blue mako and a small blue shark. The linework is bold and dark with soft shading and simple highlights, and the colour is muted pinks, blues, greys and browns.

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Mervyn had been down in the trench for eleven days when the reef fish started calling him a goblin, and he decided it was time to go up. The trench was cold and quiet and nobody there ever asked him to smile. Up top, the Channel was all engine noise and ferry lights, and somebody had to watch the cargo hulls sliding through the narrows after dark.

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He found the work pinned to a barnacle off Folkestone: a basking shark wanted a lookout for the nightly tanker run, pay in plankton, no questions about teeth. The basking shark was called Ada. She was the size of a bus and about as keen on conversation, drifting under the harbour lamp with her mouth open, filtering the glow. Every so often she tilted her great grey head at him as if he were a mildly stupid rumour.

"You're in my light," she said, which was fair, because he was.

On the third night a blue mako came slicing through the lanes with a crate lashed to his dorsal fin, grinning like he'd been to a salon. He swore he was only on a makeover tour and that the sardines were a gift for his cousin. Mervyn kept his bigeyes on the crate the whole time, and when the mako finally tried to dive under a trawler's keel, the crate snagged on the rope and spilled open across the harbour wall. Ada opened her mouth and took the whole glittering mess in one slow, grey breath. Mervyn watched the last silver fish vanish into her, then turned back to the dark water, where nothing else was moving.

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