Black and grey tattoo of Jack Skellington and Sally from The Nightmare Before Christmas inside a swirling ornate frame, with a yellow-grey moon and a small ghost dog below.

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Jack and Sally in an ornate frame

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The tattoo shows the characters Jack Skellington and Sally standing side by side, with a tombstone, a small ghost dog at the bottom and a moon behind them. The figures are rendered with fine black linework and soft grey shading, and the moon is the only area with lighter yellow-grey tones. The scene sits within a dense, scrolling black frame that fills the photograph vertically.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

They say the moon over Hollow Ridge only turns its face to the churchyard when someone is about to be married badly, and that year it turned twice. The bride was the stitched girl who lived in the rag-cart behind the mill, put together from a dead seamstress's good dresses and a spool of black thread nobody could find the end of. Nobody had asked her whether she wanted a husband. Nobody had asked the groom either, a tall, thin fellow who had been dead so long he had forgotten the shape of his own jaw, and who kept his grin pinned on because it was the only face the parish had ever given him.

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The wedding was to be at the lych gate, under the iron swirls the old smith had hammered into a frame for the dead to look through. The groom's dog, a pale hound with a nose that glowed like a candle end, trotted ahead and sat on the path beside the crooked stone of Old Amos Quill, who had once been the bell-ringer and was still, the dog reckoned, owed a tune. Nobody dared move the dog. When the bride arrived with her skirts hitched up against the frost, she found the ring already in the hound's mouth, wrapped in a strip of her own lace.

The groom opened his mouth to speak his vows and only a creak came out, the way a door does when no one has oiled it since the war. The bride waited. The moon waited. Then she took a needle from her sleeve and, without a word, unpicked the groom's painted grin at one corner and sewed it back a finger's width higher, so that for the first time in forty years he looked as though he had something kind to say.

He said his vows then, in a voice like rain on a lid, and the dog carried the rings home in its teeth while the moon went back to watching the sky. The old women still say that if you stand under the gate at midnight on the eve of the first frost, you can see two shadows through the iron swirls, and one of them is holding a needle.