Colour tattoo of Jack Skellington and Sally from The Nightmare Before Christmas inside a grey stitched heart, shown on skin.

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Jack and Sally in a stitched heart

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A colour tattoo of the cartoon characters Jack Skellington, with a skull-like face and black eyes, and Sally, with blue skin, red hair and stitches, sharing a heart-shaped frame. The heart has a dark grey background and a black stitched border, with patchwork panels in blue, yellow and purple beneath the characters. Bold outlines and flat fills define the figures, and the tattoo fills most of the frame against plain skin.

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The tinker had been mending the same grey coat for eleven winters, and he still hadn't found the thread that would hold it. Ossory Pell sat in the back room of the cloth shop on Gallowgate with his skull propped on a wooden stand, because the hinge of his jaw had gone the year the church bell cracked. Nobody in Thistlemere thought it strange. The town had long ago decided that a face like his could be trusted with a needle.

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Mrs Brannock brought him the rag girl on a wet Tuesday. She had stitched her from her dead daughter's nightdress and a bolt of dyed sailcloth, blue for the skin and red yarn for the hair, and she wanted the seams closed before the lamplighters came round. "She won't sit still," the widow said. "She keeps coming apart at the same place." Ossory turned the figure over. The stitches at her chest had been pulled tight, then loosened, then pulled tight again, the way a person holds a breath.

He worked through the night. Each seam he closed, he cut a scrap from his own grey coat and sewed it to the bodice, until the pieces made a heart. Blue and yellow and a mauled purple from the widow's curtains lay beneath them like a quilt over a grave. When the lamps guttered he stitched his name into the lining, the way his master had taught him, and found the thread would not run through the last hole.

At dawn Mrs Brannock came back and found the two of them on the bench, the skull leaning against the girl's shoulder and her painted eyes wide open. He had left one gap in the seam, no wider than a fingernail. She asked him why. He only said that a heart stitched shut all the way has nowhere left to be mended, and she took the figure home with the gap still open.

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