Fine line geometric puppy tattoo in black ink on the inner forearm.

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Geometric puppy on a forearm

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A small tattoo of a puppy built from angular, faceted lines, resembling a folded paper or origami figure. The outline is drawn in thin black linework, with the ear and eye areas filled in with solid black. The ink is black only, and the design sits in the middle of a pale forearm against a striped fabric background.

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The Marigold Ballroom smelled of floor polish and wet umbrellas. Stan Hollis had been folding paper since he was six, and by the time the band struck up the Pride of Erin he could make a crane from a ticket stub without looking at his hands. Tonight he had only a betting slip, a pencil stub and a quarter of an hour before the last waltz.

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He made the dog in five creases: a long back, a square head, two ears tucked down like a spaniel's. Nell from the cloakroom watched him over her cup of tea. "That's not a dog, Stan. That's a broken fence with ambitions." He ignored her, pressed the tail flat, and set the thing on the sprung floor, where it stood on three corners and one hopeful point.

A girl in a green dress saw it first and laughed, the way people laugh at something they didn't expect to like. Then a boy in borrowed shoes stepped round it, stopped, and came back for it. Stan watched the boy turn the paper over, find the crease where the ear met the skull, and fold it again, slower than Stan would have, but truer.

When the last waltz ended, the dog was in the boy's breast pocket and Nell was still pretending not to care. Stan found the betting slip on the floor, unfolded flat, its back printed with a horse he had never heard of. He kept it anyway, because a sheet of paper is only paper until someone decides which way it wants to be folded.

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