A black-outlined infinity symbol filled with a purple, pink and blue galaxy design, with the word infinity in black script across the right loop, shown on a plain grey background.

Galaxy infinity symbol with script

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An infinity symbol with a black outline is filled with a nebula and starfield in purple, pink and blue, with bright blue glows in the left loop. The word infinity is written in black cursive script across the right loop. The design is shown flat on a pale grey background with no body part visible.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The rain has found the gap between your tarpaulin and the gutter again, and it drips onto the box of star charts you swore you would move under the trestle an hour ago. Nobody is buying. The market on Kirkgate has emptied into the pubs, and the only customer left is a woman in a yellow mac who has been turning the same brass telescope over for ten minutes, squinting at its lens as if it owes her money.

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"Does it work?" she asks. You tell her it works if the sky does, a line your father used to say, and she laughs in a way that makes you look up properly. Then she opens her notebook on the wet trestle. Two teardrops meet at a point, their outlines inked heavy, and inside them she has coloured a galaxy in pencil, purple bleeding into pink, bright blue pooling in the left loop as if something has just switched on. "Where's the middle?" she says. "There isn't one," you say. "That's the point of it." You are not sure you believe yourself.

She pays in coppers from the bottom of her bag, eleven pence short, and you let it go. Before she leaves she tears out the page and presses it flat on the charts, then pushes the lid down against the rain. When you lift it again, the ink has run in the damp and the two loops have softened into one another, purple and blue spreading through the paper, so that the pages look like the same night seen twice. You leave the telescope where it is and go home with the charts under your arm.

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