Two mirrored chicken wing tattoos on a person's upper back, shaded in brown and orange with black outlines and small white bone tips.

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Mirrored chicken wing tattoos on upper back

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The photograph shows the upper back of a person with the head cropped out, with two identical chicken wing designs placed symmetrically on either side of the spine. Each wing is outlined in black and shaded with brown and orange tones, with small white details at the bone ends. The skin around the tattoos shows some redness, and thin red straps frame the composition.

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The Carrow and Pim Travelling Circus had shrunk to one old elephant, a striped tent with three holes in its roof, and a hatch at the gate where Ned Pim fried chicken in an iron pan. The bills still promised flying women. Nobody had flown since the autumn the trapeze rope gave way under Marisol Vane and she came down in the sawdust with her wings still strapped on.

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Bet Pim said the chicken would keep them in flour and lard until spring, and she was right, though not about the spring. Ned found that the wings sold best. People would stand at the hatch with their coats open and ask what the feathered cook was for, and he would tell them the wings had once belonged to a woman who could cross the big top without touching the ground. He laid two wings on the shelf each evening, side by side and turned in opposite directions, the way Marisol had hung her costume to dry on the tent poles. He rubbed the bone ends with a little flour so they shone like the tips of old candles.

One wet night a girl of about nine came up to the hatch with a penny held so tight it had bent. She asked whether the wings had really flown. Ned said he had never seen it done, only heard it. She ate one wing standing up, then looked at the empty tent through the gap in the canvas and asked if the elephant was still hungry. Ned gave her the second wing for free and the elephant, Dolly, took the penny from the girl's palm with the greatest courtesy, and that was the closest the Carrow and Pim show came to flying again that year.