Black and grey fine line tattoo of a howling wolf with swirling linework trailing below it, on the inside of a wrist.

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Howling wolf on a wrist

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A wolf head is tilted back as if howling, drawn in fine black outline with soft grey shading on the muzzle and ear. Thin, curling swirls flow down from the neck and finish in a spiral, giving the design a flowing, ornamental feel. The motif sits small and centred on the wrist against a plain, blurred background.

Fine line Forearm Wolf Howling wolf Swirl Spiral

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The last train up from Carrick Junction left at twenty to midnight, and Mrs Ferris always stood on the platform to watch its lamps vanish over the viaduct. I was the lad who swept the waiting room and trimmed the lamps, so I stood beside her with the broom and pretended I had somewhere else to be.

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That winter the signal wires began to sing. Old Tom Ashby said it was only the wind coming off the fells, but the sound rose and fell like a dog calling across a valley, and one night, when the frost had laid a skin of white along the sleepers, something answered it from the far side of the cutting. Mrs Ferris went very still. She said her father had kept a grey bitch on the croft above the line, and that she had sung exactly like that before she ran off into the snow and never came back.

I took the storm lantern out to look. The rails ran silver under the moon, and the signal arms swung on their rusted pins, throwing long shadows over the gravel. There was no animal. There was only the wire humming, and frost fanning out along the telegraph poles in curls like the scrolled ironwork on the old station gate, spiralling tighter and tighter until each ended in a small coil against the cold glass.

When I came back in, Mrs Ferris had the kettle on and her coat already buttoned. Leave the lamp in the window, she said. If she's coming down off the hill, she'll want to see where the rails go. I left it burning. Some nights the wire still sings, and I still keep the lamp lit for whatever might be following the line home.