Black and white drawing of Jack Skellington and Sally with sugar skull patterns on their faces, framed by a pumpkin, roses and a coffin outline.

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Jack and Sally sugar skull design

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A black and white illustration of two skull-faced characters, Jack Skellington and Sally, embracing within a coffin-shaped frame. Both faces are decorated with sugar skull patterns, and a jack-o'-lantern sits at the top with roses in the lower corners. The linework is bold and high contrast, with dense hatching in the background and hearts at the bottom of the composition.

Jack skellington Sally Sugar skull Coffin Rose Heart

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The oven clicked on at ten to four, the way it always does when nobody is awake to hear it, and I had the tins lined up on the bench before the first lorry rattled past the bottom of Mill Lane. Forty-two coffin-shaped moulds for Mrs Okafor's harvest supper, each one needing a lid of pale sugar work, swirls and dots, a little skull-face in every corner. My wrists knew the pattern by now. Curl, dot, curl, dot. I had been piping since August and they had stopped complaining in September.

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Teodor came through the back gate at quarter past, which was not unusual, though he usually came with the milk and not with a pumpkin under one arm. He set it on the flour bench and looked at me the way he looks at a loaf that has risen too fast. 'You said four,' he said. 'It's gone four,' I said, and he laughed, took a paring knife from his apron, and began cutting a face into the squash with long, careful strokes. Stitches along the jaw. A crooked grin. He was never much good at mouths.

I should have asked why he had come at all. Instead I watched his hands and thought about the forty small roses still to pipe for the church stall. He said the coast train left at seven and he had a room in Whitby booked. He did not say he was coming back, and I did not ask, because the bread was rising and the window was turning from black to the colour of ash.

When the sun finally came up over the mill, I took the last heart-shaped loaf from the rack, still warm enough to fog my palm, and set it on the sill beside the pumpkin with its grin turned towards the street. Teodor was already halfway down Mill Lane, a shape in a long coat, and I did not wave, because the dough still needed knocking back and the supper would not feed itself.