Fine line black cat outline tattoo on a woman's ankle, with a hand resting on the foot over a black and white knitted blanket.

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Minimalist cat outline on an ankle

Fine line · Ankle · Black and grey · Photo

A single continuous black line forms a simple outline of a seated cat in profile, with a pointed ear, a curved back and a tail sweeping down. The linework is thin and even, and the ink is set on pale skin on the top of the foot near the ankle. A hand with dark nail polish and silver rings rests across the foot against a black and white patterned knitted blanket.

Fine line Ankle Cat Outline

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Ruth, the cat came back on Tuesday, thin as a coat hanger and twice as indignant, and I have decided to forgive him for the eleven days he spent at the Pollards' out of sheer relief. Mrs Pollard says he was sitting on their gatepost every morning looking up the lane as though he expected someone to come round the bend with a tin of pilchards. I told her that is exactly what he expected, since it is exactly what he always gets from me.

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You will laugh, but I have been thinking about that line you drew for me on the back of the seed catalogue last summer, the one you said was the simplest thing you could manage without taking your eyes off the pencil. I tried it myself on the back of the rent book and got a cat that looked like a bent spoon. Still, I kept the shape of it in my head all through the rain. The little pointed ear, the back dipping where he lies down to wash, the tail coming round the front of his paws like a question mark that has given up.

Mr Okafor from the post office says the new ink shop in Aldbury is doing wonders with needles now that the old chemist has closed, and that a girl from the village went up there in July with her mother's blessing and came home with a bird. I shall not be going in for anything so permanent, Ruth. But I did buy a clean nib and a bottle of black from Hollis's on Thursday, and I have been practising the whole cat in one unbroken stroke, never lifting the pen. Twelve attempts so far. The twelfth is pinned above the mantel. He has taken a great interest in it and sat under it for an hour, as if checking my work.

Come for Sunday tea and bring the good scissors. I want to show you the twelfth and see whether you think he is as handsome as I do.