Realistic black and grey tattoo of an open zipper splitting into a Y shape on a lower abdomen, above the waistband of denim jeans.

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Open zipper tattoo on lower abdomen

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The tattoo shows a zipper that is open at the bottom and splits into two arms, forming a Y shape, with the metal pull at the centre. The teeth and pull are rendered with fine shading and highlights to give a three-dimensional, metallic look. The design is almost entirely grey and black, with only small touches of colour along the edges, and it sits on skin above the waistband of blue denim.

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At ten to four the bakery smelled of wet flour and the cold tin of the proving racks, and Dorota was already swearing at the bag. The wholesale mill had sent the sacks of strong white in a canvas hold-all with a zip down its spine, and the zip had jammed halfway, its teeth splaying like a fork. She worked the pull with two floury fingers while the first tray of loaves ticked in the oven behind her.

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"Cut the seam and we lose nothing but the thread," Ibrahim said, not looking up from his scoring. She didn't cut it. Her father had bought the bag the year the shop opened, and every morning since he had unzipped it from the bottom so the two halves fell open like a pair of wings. The pull stuck at the fork. She eased it tooth by tooth, breathing through her nose, until the metal gave with a small, clean click.

The sacks slid free onto the bench, and the window had turned from black to the colour of dishwater. Ibrahim finally looked over. "Two arms," he said, "as if it couldn't decide which way to go."

Dorota lifted the first sack and tipped it into the mixer. "It goes both ways," she said. "That's why he bought it."

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