Small black and grey tattoo of a sloth hanging from a branch, in a detailed engraved style, on the outer thigh of a person holding a vintage camera.

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Hanging sloth tattoo on a thigh

Thigh · Black and grey · Photo

A small sloth hangs upside down from a thin branch with a few leaves, shown in fine black linework with soft shading on the fur. The tattoo is in black ink only and sits on the outer thigh, with the person's white shorts visible above it. A vintage rangefinder camera fills the left of the frame against a blurred green background.

Thigh Sloth Branch Leaves Animal

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Tomas, the cable car stopped again this morning with a jolt that rattled the thermos off the windowsill, and the operator says the wind won't let us down before Thursday. So I am writing this by the stove, where the only creature moving slower than me is the grey cat that has slept on my boots since Sunday.

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Ruth from the kitchen says the upside-down animal on your postcard is the only thing I should be thinking about. I laughed, though I didn't tell her that it hangs exactly the way Mr Halloran did last winter, from the hook in the cellar, humming hymns to the rafters while he waited for the snow to clear. He never once let go in a hurry. Neither, it turns out, do I.

Here is what I found in the back room: a ledger from 1931 with a pressed leaf between pages forty and forty-one, and a pencilled note in the margin that says only, Hang on. Keep the lamp lit. I think the innkeeper's wife wrote it for the man who was always late coming down the mountain. I have pinned the leaf above my bed. When the road opens, I will bring the ledger to you myself, and we will see whether the branch was ever really there.